SETUP:
SETUP Players choose color cubes (use black &
white in 2 player game). Place board with all the
different scoring markers (only 8 & 12 Noble
Markers used for 3 player / only the 8 used for 2
players), shuffle & place Intrigue Cards, remove
Country Cards based on players before shuffling:
Then place Country Cards and turn 3 face up.
Choose who will be 1st player (random or oldest?).
ROUND SUMMARY (repeat steps in clockwise turns):
1) DRAW CARDS: draw 3 Country Cards (face up
or off deck) or 1 Country Card/1 Intrigue Card.
EXCEPTION: # of cards drawn 1st round only:
2) PLAY CARDS (optional step):
Claim vacant noble: play # of matching
Country Cards. Place cube (+ on Title Marker)
Claim opponents noble: play # of matching
Country Cards + 1 matching Intrigue Card
(EXCEPTION: Kings require 2 Intrigue Cards).
Place cube (+ on Title Marker), and also move
opponents defeated cube to Cathedral space.
NOTE: ANY 3 Country Cards= 1 wild Country Card
& ANY 2 Intrigue Cards= 1 wild Intrigue Card
3) END OF TURN: Discard cards if over hand limit
(hand limit = 12 Country Card s/ 4 Intrigue Cards) &
refill row of 3 face up Country Cards.
END OF 3 PERIODS: periods end when Country
Card drawpile is empty (only reshuffle discard pile
beforehand to complete last players turn).
EXCEPTION: 3rd period requires finishing the
round of players (until right of start player).
GAME END is after 3rd period and all the score
markers are distributed. HIGH SCORE WINS!
(ties go to player w/ the highest single marker)
SCORING DETAILS:
Bonuses scored during player rounds:
CITY BONUSES: 1st player with a cube on either
Noble in a city takes the City Scoring Marker.
COUNTRY BONUSES: 1st & 2nd players to have a
cube in each city (Cathedral spots apply) of a
Country takes the highest remaining Country
Scoring Marker.
NOBLE HOUSE BONUSES: 1st, 2nd, & 3rd players
(availability depending on player count at setup)
to have a cube on all 7 Title Scoring Markers on
side of board takes the highest remaining Noble
House Scoring Marker (purple circle tokens).
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Bonuses scored at end of each period:
PERIOD BONUSES: Players total their Influence
(#s to right of city nobles) on each country.
Players with most influence take higher Period
Bonus Marker, and player with 2nd highest takes
the lower Period Bonus.
Ties go in favor of player w/ higher ranked noble.
(still tied? then tie goes to player with a noble in
a city that had the higher City Bonus Marker).
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Bonuses scored at end of the game:
TITLE BONUSES: Player with most cubes on a
Title Scoring Marker score the whole Marker.
If there is 2 players tied they will flip the Title
Scoring Marker over and each player scores .
If there is 3 or more players tied then that
markers removed and not scored by any players.