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Gamehelparchitectsofthewestkingdom
How to Play video by Watch it Played with Rodney Smith:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZrG99c4vKQ
Overview of Architects of the West Kingdom
West Kingdom trilogy: https://youtu.be/FxI1psoj_R4
Locations
Players can play to several locations on the board to
Resource locations
Mines: 1 clay per worker here, or 1 gold per 2 workers here
Quarry: 1 stone per worker here
Forest: 1 wood per worker here
Silversmith: 1 coin per worker here, plus 1 coin
Black Market locations
(Note these are separate actions, and each can only hold one worker of any player, until black market reset)
Lose 1 Virtue + 1 Coin : Small location bonus
Lose 1 Virtue + 2 Coins : Hire an apprentice for free, or look at 5 buildings and draw one
Lose 1 Virtue + 3 Coins : Large location bonus
Guardhouse actions
Put workers in the guardhouse, gaining 1 coin per worker
Retrieve your workers from the guardhouse (for free)
Pay 5 money (2 of it tax) to retrieve all captured workers from opponents
Pay 6 money (3 of it tax) to pay off a debt
Kings Storehouse actions
Players can take one action per worker they have here, including any actions they have from apprentices
2 (Brick/Wood/Stone) to gain 1 Virtue
3 (Wood/Stone) to gain 1 marble
Workhouse actions
Players can either hire an apprentice or draw from the building deck
Buy an apprentice from the left column for 4 money (2 of it tax) -- or columns further in either market row with multiple workers or by putting 1 coin on skipped apprentices
Draw from the building deck, plus an additional card for every 2 workers here