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* Play a political card (if you have one)
* Play a political card (if you have one)
* Spend your ''military actions'' to build military units, and ''civil actions'' to:
* Spend your ''military actions'' to build military units, and ''civil actions'' to:
** pick cards from the card rows
** pick cards from the card rows (if you have room in your hand)
** play cards to your tableau
** play cards to your tableau
** increase your population
** increase your population
** build/upgrade farms, mines, or urban buildings
** build/upgrade farms, mines, or urban buildings


Symbols and counters:
Yellow counters represent your population. They can be in one of three places:
* '''yellow''' counters represent your population. They can be in one of three places:
* on your farms, mines, urban buildings (grey-backed cards, such as ''philosophy''), or military units (representing workers)
** on your farms, mines, urban buildings, or military units (representing workers)
* on your available population, which are available to place on your cards
** on your available population, which are available to place on your cards
* on your "yellow bank" -- when this is empty, you can no longer increase your available population
** on your "yellow bank" -- when this is empty, you can no longer increase your available population
 
* '''blue''' counters represent food or resources. They can be in two places:
Blue counters represent food or resources. They can be in two places:
** on your farms or mines
* on your farms or mines
** on your "blue bank" -- when this is empty, you can no longer produce
* on your "blue bank" -- when this is empty, you can no longer produce
* '''white''' circles (on some cards) represent civil actions
* '''red''' circles (on some cards) represent military actions

Revision as of 03:56, 18 July 2014

Turn structure:

  • Play a political card (if you have one)
  • Spend your military actions to build military units, and civil actions to:
    • pick cards from the card rows (if you have room in your hand)
    • play cards to your tableau
    • increase your population
    • build/upgrade farms, mines, or urban buildings

Yellow counters represent your population. They can be in one of three places:

  • on your farms, mines, urban buildings (grey-backed cards, such as philosophy), or military units (representing workers)
  • on your available population, which are available to place on your cards
  • on your "yellow bank" -- when this is empty, you can no longer increase your available population

Blue counters represent food or resources. They can be in two places:

  • on your farms or mines
  • on your "blue bank" -- when this is empty, you can no longer produce