Game

• On your turn perform 2 Different Actions:
  • Territory
    • Draw 3, place 1, discard 2 (draw pile replenished by shuffled discard pile)
      • Must be touching 2 existing plots (except if touching Pond plot)
    • Territory Objectives:
      • Various shapes of specific colours
      • A count of at least x many of a specific colour (not necessarily connected)
      • Flower hex is on 6 tiles
    • Irrigation
      • Objectives require irrigation:
        • adjacent to Pond
        • contains an oasis icon
        • building irrigation
        • clarification: gardeners cabin needs irrigation too (for flower hex)
      • When hex placed it grows bamboo immediately if irrigated
      • If irrigation reaches it later bamboo grows at time of irrigation
  • Water: Gain 1 irrigation (placed as free action on your turn)
  • Move Gardener
    • 1 or more hexes in a straight line
    • causes bamboo to grow on final hex and any directly adjacent of same colour
    • max of 4 sections
    • Fertiliser (rake) icon causes double growth
    • Gardener Objectives:
      • x stacks, y tall, of a specific colour
      • Can have icon requirements (presence or lack of)
      • + icon at top of stack: at least the number of section pictured below icon (2 or more)
  • Move Panda
    • 1 or more hexes in a straight line
    • eats 1 bamboo from final hex, stored in stomach until claiming objective
    • panda can not eat if enclosure icon present
    • Panda Objectives:
      • x sections of a specific colour(s)
      • Can have pond icon: requires panda to be on a pond hex
  • Draw Objective: top 1 from 1 deck of your choice (hand limit of 5)
• Start of turn: roll the dice
  • Sun: extra action
  • Rain: bamboo grows
  • Wind: optionally do the same action twice
  • Storm: panda frightened, transports anywhere and eats 1 section of bamboo
  • Clouds: gain an improvement chip of your choice (store it or use it)
  • ?: your choice of above
• Game ends after 9/8/7 objectives completed in a 2/3/4 player game
• Player completing game-ending objectives gets emperor card (+2 points)
  • other players get 1 final turn

During Play

• Free actions during your turn:
  • Claiming an objective
  • Placing an improvement icon
  • Placing irrigation channel
• Special Plots
  • Triple coloured plot
    • 1 of each colour grow here
    • all directly adjacent plots grow (all colours), if irrigated
    • Panda still only eats 1 section (colour is players choice)
    • Rain only triggers 1 section of 1 colour to grow
    • For plot objectives this plot is all 3 colours (wild)
  • Sacred hill (flute playing monk)
    • gardener stopping here triggers growth of all irrigated plots of that colour (everywhere, not just adjacent)
  • Pond
    • same rules as first pond
    • immediately irrigates connected plots, can be used as irrigation source
  • Gardeners Cabin
    • when gardener stops here player may draw top card of all 3 decks, keep 1, return other 2 to bottom of their decks
• Miss Panda
  • Miss Panda starts out of the game. She appears on first hex placed with a flower icon
  • Movement
    • All subsequent hexes with a flower icon cause her to move there upon placement
    • When the Storm weather is rolled players choose to move Panda OR Miss Panda anywhere
    • When a player performs a move action they choose to move Panda OR Miss Panda (standard 1 or more hexes in a straight line )
  • When Miss Panda finishes her movement in the same hex as Panda (but not vice versa) then the player may:
    • pay 1 section of bamboo of any colour
    • gain Baby token of corresponding colour
      • token to be chosen at random, but you may check which remain before selecting colour
  • Baby Benefits:
    • 2 points at end of game
    • Pictured benefit (optional):
      • Immediately place 1 irrigation channel from supply
      • Immediately place 1 improvement from supply (or move 1 if none available)
      • Return 1 objective from hand to bottom of the deck, replace it with top card from the same deck
  • Miss Panda does not eat bamboo

Score Points From

• Score points by completing objectives (territory shapes, bamboo grown, bamboo eaten)
• First to complete target number of objectives: +2 emperor card

Prepare

• For all decks: Go through and remove cards according to the player count shown in bottom right corner
• For Age 3: remove all purple, draw number of players +2, add them back into the deck and shuffle
• Each player gets: 3 coins and a wonder board (choose a side, day is simpler than night)

Game

• 3 rounds – deal out the deck, each player gets a hand of 7 cards.
• Choose 1, play it, pass the hand (deck gets passed clockwise/anticlockwise as pictured on the back of the cards)
  • Playing a card can be done in 3 ways:
    • construct it into your city, paying the cost on the card (or for free if your have the matching chain symbol)
    • use it to construct a stage of your wonder (from left to right), face down paying the cost on the wonder board (not the card)
    • sell it for 3 coins
• On the 6th turn, when you have a hand of 2 cards, 1 gets chosen, the other discarded.
• At End of Round, Resolve military conflicts: compare the total of your military power with your neighbours (left and right)
  • equal: no tokens taken
  • less: take a defeat token
  • higher: take a victory token corresponding to the current age

During play

• You can’t build the same thing twice
• It’s a good idea to tuck constructed brown and silver cards under the top left of your wonder board
• When constructing
  • Coin costs must be covered at time of selecting the card, i.e. not depending on income from neighbours during the turn
  • Resource costs can be covered by resources from your own city
    • Each resource can only be used once per turn
    • Can be the starting resource on your board
    • Can be a grey, brown or yellow card in your city
  • Resource costs can be covered by buying resources from a neighbouring city for 2 coins
    • Each resource can be bought once per turn per player
    • Can be the starting resource on their board
    • Can be a brown or grey resource (not yellow)
• Clarification: “construct the first age card in each color for free” e.g. If you have 0 green (scientific) cards in your empire, the first green card you build is free.

Score Points From

• Wonder Board victory points
• Treasure: 3 coins = 1VP
• Military conflict tokens
• Blue cards, add the total up
• Yellow cards, according to effects
• Purple Cards, according to effects
• Green cards
  • Each set of 3 different symbols = 7VP
  • For each symbol type: number of identical symbols:
    • 1 = 1VP
    • 2 = 4VP
    • 3 = 9VP
    • 4 = 16VP
    • 5 = 25VP
    • 6 = 36VP

Tips

Don’t forget the starting resource at the top left of your wonder board
Green (science) cards have the best chaining – each enables 2 chains in the next Age
Age 1 blue cards chain to blues in Age 2 or Age 3
Yellows chain through all 3 ages

Game

• Setup
  • Make a market of 3 face up power cards
  • Set aside the green dice (they’re used by some cards)
  • A monster figure and board to each player
    • 10 Health
    • 0 Points
  • If playing with “power up”:
    • draw 2 evolution cards, keep 1, discard 1
• Clockwise until end of game (20 Points or last player standing)
  • If you are in Tokyo at the start of your turn, gain 2 Points
  • Roll 6 black dice up to 3 times (2 rerolls of all/any dice of your choosing)
  • Resolve Dice
    • Points: 3 of a kind = score the number. Each additional of the number = +1
    • Energy: 1 energy cube each
    • Smash: monsters not where you are lose 1 health each
      • if injuring monster(s) in Tokyo they may now yield (they still lose the health)
      • if a monster lost their last health they’re eliminated. Cards and cubes discarded.
    • Heal
      • if outside Tokyo gain 1 health each to a max of 10
      • If playing with “power up”:
        • 3x health allows you to draw 2 evolution cards, keep 1, discard 1
        • If draw pile is empty then shuffle discard pile
  • Enter Tokyo if it is empty (this is non-optional)
    • Gain 1 Point when entering Tokyo
  • Buy Power Card(s) – restock is immediate
    • Optionally spend 2 Energy to discard and replace the market

Score Points From

• Rolling points on the dice: 3x number = score the number. Each additional of the number = +1
• Entering Tokyo: 1
• Starting your turn in Tokyo: 2
• Power Cards do crazy things
• Power Up Cards do crazy things

Game

• Place a tile from your supply
  • No overhangs/overlaps
  • Rotate/Flip freely
  • Not cover the pit (where the statue goes)
  • First tile can go anywhere
  • Orthogonally adjacent to a previous tile
• Evaluate icons you covered
  • Get corresponding tile for Green/White/Orange
  • Get a park area (from either stack) for the construction crew (to a max of 4 areas)
    • Park area goes orthogonally adjacent to existing area
    • Rotation is not allowed
    • Can’t be lower/closer than the park entrance
• Place a Bear Statue if all squares in an area are covered
• Claim an achievement
  • When you meet the criteria claim the topmost achievement tile
  • Only one of each type may be claimed per player
• Game ends when 1 player has filled 4 areas (or no player can go and all are passing)
  • All other players get one more turn

During Play

• If you can’t go then you may pass and take a free Green area of your choice.
  • Your turn ends, you may not place the free tile this turn
  • You can’t pass if you can go

Score Points From

• Buildings/statues in your park
• Achievements (if included)

Game

• Played over 8/9/10 rounds going clockwise
• First player moves round tracker marker on each round
• First Turn
  • Pick a race/power combo (and any coins on it)
    • Pay 1 coin for each skipped over combo, if any
    • Take race tokens for the sum of both counts
    • Replenish market by sliding down and drawing from top
  • Conquer
    • You need tokens equal to 2 + the number of tokens in the region
    • First region is on the edge of the map or by a sea
    • Subsequent regions must border existing regions
    • On final conquest add pips from reinforcement die to conquering value
  • Redeploy
    • Shift tokens freely around your regions, leaving at least one in each region
  • Score
    • 1 point for each region
    • Any Race/Power bonuses
• Subsequent turns, either Expand or Decline
  • Expand
    • pick up all your tokens, leaving 1 in each region you wish to maintain a presence in
    • Conquer, as above
    • Redeploy, as above
    • Score, as above
  • Decline
    • If you already have a race in decline, remove their tokens and discard their banner
    • Flip your race/power banners
    • Flip your race tokens and remove all but 1 per region
    • Score, as above
    • Next turn, play the same as first turn

During Play

• If a players region is conquered
  • they take their race tokens back in hand
  • discard one token
  • at the end of the current players turn
    • if they still have controlled region(s) redeploy in-hand tokens
    • if they don’t then their next turn is treated the same as a First turn
• You can conquer your own in-decline tokens

Score Points From

• Most coins at the end wins.
• Ties are settled by most race tokens on the map (including those in decline)

Game

• Make a draw pile of tiles
  • 2 player = 24 tiles
  • 3 player = 36 tiles
  • 4 player = 48 tiles
• Each round (6 in total)
  • Setup
    • Draw tiles, 1 for each player (and an extra 2 tiles for a 2 player game)
    • Lay them out in a column, in number order, lowest at top
  • Turn
    • First round
      • Order is decided by drawing from a handful of kings
      • Place your king on an unoccupied tile you want
    • Subsequent rounds
      • Order is from top to bottom of last round placing, top to bottom
      • Add the tile your king is on (from the last round) to your territory
        • 5×5 grid
        • touching borders must match on at least one edge
        • starting middle tile is considered wild
        • tiles can not be moved once placed
        • if tiles can’t fit they’re discarded and not scored
      • Place your king on an unoccupied tile you want in the newly drafted column
• Keep going until there are no tiles left to draw

Score Points From

• Each contiguous territory scores:
  • number of tiles * number of crowns
  • no crowns = no points
• Bonus points
  • 10 points if castle is in the center
  • 5 points if you didn’t discard any tiles

Tips

• Don’t get so caught up with matching borders you make a shape that can’t be filled

Game

• Round
  • All players roll their 4 movement dice
  • First player also rolls the road die
  • First player rotates clockwise after each round
• On your turn
  • Assign 1 die to an operable car
    • Place the die in the center of the dashboard
    • The number is how many spaces it moves
    • If you don’t have any available cars, assign it to the Coast space on a car you’ve already moved. Command cannot be used
  • Activate a command (Once per round)
    • Assign and activate a die to your command board
    • Commands
      • Airstrike – Any – Place your chopper in a free space and shoot with it
      • Nitro – 1-3 – add the value to your movement
      • Drift – 3-5 – pass through one space with a vehicle in without causing a slam
      • Repair – 6 – Remove 1 damage from 1 of your cars
  • Move that car
    • Car gains moves equal to the die assigned
    • A car moves into one of the 3 spaces in its front arc
    • Movement rules:
      • a car must move the full amount
      • can go through a space with a chopper
      • reveal hazards and resolve as the care moves
      • a car loses remaining moves when it takes damage
      • crashing into another car results in a Slam, place the moving car on top
        • Roll slam and direction die
        • Larger vehicle owner may ask for a reroll of both dice
        • Move affected vehicle as dice show
    • If all movement was on the road you may optionally now take another movement using the road die
      • same rules apply as a normal movement
    • Coast = move 1 space only, Road die can not be used
  • Shoot with that car
    • you can shoot vehicles, wrecks, but not choppers, in your front arc
    • if a wreck takes damange it is eliminated
    • you may shoot after resolving a slam
    • you may shoot your own cars
    • Roll the shooting die, hit is a match on size
    • owner of damaged car draws and resolces a damage effect

During Play

• Moving off the front of map triggers next tile to appear (or they win)
• vehicles on last tile are eliminated
• if a player is out of the game, next tile becomes the last tile

Setup

• 1 private objective to each player (grey back)
• 2 windows to each player – player picks 1 of 4 options
• Allocate Favour tokens as pictured on window chosen
• Display 3 tool cards
• Display 3 Public objective cards

Game

• 10 rounds going clockwise
  • roll dice – 2 x players +1 (e.g. 3 players: 7 dice)
  • Optionally select and place a die each going clockwise, then anticlockwise for an optional second dice
    • first player is first and last
    • last player is last and first
  • Optionally (and for each dice) use 1 tool card
  • 1 remaining dice goes on the round tracker

During the game

• Dice placement rules
  • First die, against the edge
  • subsequent die must be adjacent (including diagonally)
  • Not violate colour/number restriction
  • Not be orthogonally adjacent to the same colour/number
• Tools
  • cost favour tokens, 1 if you’re first, otherwise 2
• Mistakes
  • If a mistake is found remove the die that’s breaking rules

Score Points From

• Public objective cards
• Private objective card
• Favour token (1 point per token remaining)
• lose 1 point for each open window

• Tie break order:
  • most points from private objectives
  • most remaining favour tokens
  • reverse player order in final round

Game

• For 4 seasons, Go clockwise, on your turn do 1 of 3 things:
  • Place a Worker on a Location
    • There are Exclusive and Shared locations (full circle vs open bottom)
    • 4 player spaces may not be used by the same player as the other one
    • Locations types:
      • Basic locations
      • Forest locations (cards)
      • Destination cards in your town (or open ones elsewhere, owner gets 1 point token from supply)
      • Events, first to visit claims it
      • Haven (discard 2 cards for 1 resource)
      • Journey (only in autumn, discard cards for points)
  • Play a Card
    • Play 1 Construction Or Critter into your city
      • From your hand or the Meadow (community hand)
      • Pay the cost, or free if pre-requisite already in your city
        • Mark construction as “occupied” when playing free critter
    • City has 15 space (5 x 3)
    • Unique cards = 1 copy per city (common cards can have multiple per city)
    • Card types
      • Tan Traveller – activates once when played
      • Green production – activates once when played and during Prepare for Season
      • Red Destination – activates when worker placed on it
      • Blue Governance – Grants bonuses
      • Purple Prosperity – Worth points and bonus points at end of game
  • Prepare for season (once there’s nothing else you want to do)
    • Take your workers back
    • Gain season bonuses as pictured on the tree
      • Spring +1 worker and activate green produciton cards
      • Summer +1 worker and Draw 2 cards from the Meadow
      • Autumn +2 workers and activate green produciton cards

During Play

• Drawing cards is done from the Deck (unless specifically told to draw from Meadow)
• Hand limit of 8 (strict – never exceed)
• If a Meadow card is played replenish it immediately
• If allowed to draw from the Meadow, draw all cards then replenish
• If the deck runs out, shuffle the discard pile to form a new deck
• At the end of the game, players who have passed can’t be given cards/resources

Score Points From

• At end of game total points:
  • Base value of each card
  • Point tokens
  • Purple Prosperity bonuses
  • Journey Points (location on board, discard to place)
  • Events claimed
• Ties: won by player with most events
• Still Tied: won by player with most leftover resources

Tips

• To note at the beginning:
  • Forest location tiles – which are good value?
  • Events on offer – what do they require? what is their reward?
  • What’s in the Meadow
• Dungeon is great mid to end game for getting low value critters out of the city and reducing costs of new cards
• Husband and Wife only take up 1 space in the city

Game

• 5 Rounds, 6 Phases
• Each round:
  • Events
    • Reveal the next event token(s)
      • If a player passes a token during scoring, bump it along to be ontop of the next token
    • Update initiative
    • Refresh exhaused skills (turn them upgright)
  • Draw Cards
    • Draw 4, discard to 7
  • Actions
    • Following initiative track, each player gets 3 actions, 1 at a time, use action tracker to track
    • Actions Available:
      • Move
        • Discard 1+ cards, add up movement icons into points, spend points to move units
        • Movement stops upon encountering enemy/trog token (more units can move in to join though)
        • Next resolve:
          • Exploration tokens
          • Trog tokens
          • If uncontested, place control token
          • If contested, place battle token. until resolved:
            • no units may enter this region
            • place attacker unit on token to denote this
            • structures can not be built here
            • Unless noted, region may not be affected
            • Defender units may leave, however double enemey count must remain
      • Recruit
        • Discard 1+ cards, add up recruit icons into points, spend points to add units into headquarters
      • Build/Activate structure
        • Discard 1+ cards, add up building icons into points, spend points to add/activate structures
          • You can build and activate in the same action
          • A building can only be activated once per action
          • Can’t build in HQ or a battle region (with a battle token)
          • Can’t have >1 of the same type in a region
          • Unless noted, can’t activate buildings in a battle region
          • If control of region lost, structure remains, but it can’t be activated
      • Draw 2 tactics cards (from deck or any terrain deck), keep 1
      • Enable Scoring
        • Once of your cards has this as an action
  • Battle Resolution
    • For each battle token in order:
      • add a crystal to the region
      • transfer the units to the battle objectives (attacker first)
      • play tactics cards (attacker first, one at a time, pass is final)
        • terrain tactics can only used if the region matches
      • resolve the objectives
        • region control
          • winner gets 2VP and places control token
            • unless non-player Trog, in which case place a Trog Nest token
          • Defender wins draws
        • capture prisoners
          • winner takes 1 prisoner (from any objective, even from attrition)
        • attrition
          • for each unit placed, kill one enemy unit (from any objective) – back to reserve
          • score 1VP per enemy killed
      • place surviving winners back into region
      • retreat with surviving losing units
        • into an adjacent, non-battle, region under retreating players control
        • unless non-player Trog, in which case place a Trog Nest token into an adjacent uncrontrolled region
        • this may trigger a trog token, reveal it and place a battle token
        • if there’s nowhere to retreat, they go to Reserve
      • remove battle token
  • Prisoners
    • Score 1VP for each prisoner you have
    • Buy back prisoners for 2VP per prisoner (no limit), back to Reserve
  • Scoring – if enabled
    • The player who enabled scoring gains 1VP per region they control
    • All players scores 1VP per crystal in regions they control
    • If a player passes an event token during scoring, bump it along to be ontop of the next token
• End of game
  • At the start of the 5th round the Event token is “Enable final scoring” – there is a Final Scoring token for this
  • Scoring can not be enabled by players in the 5th round

During Play

• During your turn skills can be used before/after your action
  • turn the card 90 degrees to indicate it is exhausted
• The Trogs are only controlled in a 4 player game
  • Trog tokens still spawn trogs and they’re available for use immediately
  • Trogs can move between regions with tunnels (prebuilt and structure token)
  • Losing a battle results in a normal player retreat, not trog exception
  • Trogs only score half total points (rounded up) for crystals in their control

Score Points From

• 2VP – winning battles
• 1VP – killing during battles
• 1VP per prisoner per round
• 1VP per controlled region per round if you activate scoring
• 1VP per crystal in a controlled region per round

Tips

• control regions, activate scoring, get points
• boost crystal count by triggering battles
• familiarise yourself with your skills and structures
• take tactics cards that match territory where you are likely to contest