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Overview

The game is played over 6 years (rounds) where players take actions until everyone passes and then any unused Workers and Resources are discarded to the general supply, each Year concludes with an attack from the Picts and you must try to defend yourself!

Start of Year

Turn over a new Fate Card and everyone gains the resources listed

Each player draws 2 personal cards and chooses one for a Path and the other for a Prospect

The Path option looks at the top "sky" part of the card which will suggest an objective which will grant extra points if achieved

The Prospect option looks at the lower left tag which will provide additional starting supplies

After this decision has been made, players gain extra supplies based on what they have filled in so far:

1 Resource per filled space in Resource Production

1 Civilian per filled space in Hotel

1 Builder per filled space in Workshop

1 Attribute per filled space in Road

Turns

The main phase allows players to use their supplies to take actions which involve filling in spaces from left to right on various tracks and perhaps gaining extra supplies if the space filled contained an icon

The cost to advance on a track is shown in the banner where that track's name can be found

Some areas work slightly differently, maybe filling in a different direction or being filled in whatever order you like

If a space has a "#" icon, it is filled with the year number rather than shaded in

There are 22 different action area types, some of which having multiple different sub-tracks within them:

Cohorts

Mining and Foresting

Wall Guard

Cippi / Wall / Fort

Granaries

Resource Production

Training Ground

Hotels / Workshops / Roads

Forum

Landmark

Attributes

Citizens

Precincts

Market

Theatre

Ludus Gladiatorius

Gardens

Temples

Baths

Courthouse

Diplomats

Scouts

Cohorts

These cannot be filled in directly, but instead can be filled as bonuses from other tracks (Red Shield Icon). These are your main objective tracks in order to be the most defensive against Picts as you can be during End of Year phase

Mining and Foresting

This track costs Servants and allows you to gain Resources and increase your Resource Production to gain more Resources at Start of Year

Wall Guard

This can either be filled in directly costing Soldiers, or indirectly with the Sword Icon Bonus from other tracks. This can grant you Cohort advancements or Discipline advancements

Cippi / Wall / Fort

These three are tracks in their own right, but are literally connected to each other. In order to advance on either the Cippi or the Wall, the Fort MUST be at or exceeding the level you wish to advance the other by (e.g. a level 3 Fort will allow you to reach a Level 3 Wall and/or a Level 1 Cippi, to reach Level 4 Wall and/or Level 2 Cippi you MUST advance the Fort to Level 4) the connected ropes will show you how far you can upgrade

The Fort either costs 1 Builder OR 1 Soldier, whilst the Cippi and Wall each cost 1 Resource. The orange flag markers on the Fort track are your Infrastructure Level, and you are required to have a certain level of Infrastructure in order to build Hotels, Workshops, Granaries, and Roads. The other things these can gain you are Civilian pieces (remember these need to be spent or lost at Year's End), Discipline, Renown, Cohort Advancement

End of Year

Once all players have passed, the year ends

Any remaining Resources and Workers are discarded to the main supply

Then the Picts attack, draw a number of Fate cards equal to what the current year's difficulty states

Look at the three arrows at the top of the cards drawn and see which ones are coloured in red, this shows how many attacks will concern the left, centre, and right Cohorts of every player

Players then each check how many boxes they have filled in the concerned Cohorts and whether this equals the number of red arrows for that Cohort

If you succeed, you gain Valour equal to that depicted in the grey box, fill this in and if you gain anything, get it now and it will carry over to next year

If you fail, you gain Disdain for each attack failed but only up to the value in the grey box, i.e. if you fail 3 attacks but the value in the grey box is 2 then you only take 2 Disdain

If you succeed some and fail others, you gain a mixture of Disdain and Valour, but only up to the value in the grey box with Disdain taking priority. In other words, if grey box is 2, you fail 1 and succeed 1, you get 1 V and 1 D, if you fail 2 and succeed 1 you gain 2 D and 0 V (Disdain gets priority)

If you have Favour from either Temples or Diplomats, you may use it to ignore one whole card of your choice (Or a card that targets the correct Cohort in the case of Diplomats)

End of Game

The game ends at the end of Year 6

Any supplies gained during the Year End phase of Year 6 are discarded

The player with the most points wins

If tied, the player with the least Disdain wins

If still tied, the player who gained most points only from Path Cards wins