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Overview
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Your First Turn
For every player, their first turn of the game is slightly different
First, pick a randomly combined race/power. If you pick a combo beyond the first, pay one coin to each you wish to skip, these will then be claimed by someone who does pick it (Every player starts the game with enough coin to buy any available combo)
Once a combo is picked, take a number of race tokens for the race equal to the large numbers on BOTH the race and power tiles
Some races give extra race tokens during the game, but most only give what you get at this point, the race tokens are limited by the supply even if you come across a combo which could exceed this
After choosing your race, make your first Conquest, this must be to a landmass bordering the edge of the map
To conquer a region, you need 2 Race tokens +1 token for each piece present in the space (terrain, tribe, or opponents), all race tokens used to conquer a region stay in that region for now
You can conquer additional regions as long as they are adjacent to a region you already control
If another Race is conquered in this way, the owner takes them into their hand and puts one back into the box, losing it permanently
For the player's final conquest of the turn, providing they don't have enough pieces to actually conquer it yet still hold at least 1 token, they may roll the reinforcement Dice to see if they get lucky and gain extra strength to conquer it or not
After which, any opponents holding race tokens conquered this turn can now redeploy them in their owned regions
The active player then can redistribute their race tokens as they wish, providing at least 1 race token remains in all regions they occupy
Finally, the active player gains a coin for each region they occupy (plus bonus coins from certain powers if applicable)
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