Castles of Burgundy: My Reference

Game

roll 2 dice (3 if you’re the lead player)
using number on dice to do 2 actions
- buy a tile from the corresponding market into your holding area
- place a tile from your holding area onto a corresponding slot on your board
- sell corresponding goods from your crate area (gain 1 silver and each worth 4 at the end)
- without needing corresponding: gain 2 workers (can be used to +/- 1 from your action dice)
Free action during your turn (max once per round)
- spend 2 silver to buy a tile from the black market in the middle

When playing tiles onto your board you gain bonuses:

mines – give you silver at the end of each round – target these early on
tiles for extra actions from:
- have an extra action (pretend you have another dice of any number) – castle
- have an extra action using the white dice number – white castle
- gain extra tiles from market – carpenter, church, market
- place a tile on your board – town hall
monastries
- keep an eye on which bonuses are on offer
farms
- keep an eye on which animals have been/gone
ships
- get you goods and advance up the shipping (turn order) track
other tiles
- get 2 silver – bank
- get 4 workers – boarding house
- get 4 VP – watchtower
- sell 2 type of good – warehouse

completing areas – the earlier the era for more points
being the first/second to complete all areas of a colour gets bonus chit
being the first/second to link the 3 castles around the edges of the board gets a bonus chit
sold goods are worth 4 points each
building a farmland of similar animals adds up (1 point per matching animal, each time you add/expand the farm)

mines have their own colour on the board
don’t mix up yellow monastry and beige building
roll the white dice too if you’re first player
In a 4 player game the goods don’t stay in the market area for long
at the start of each era read the power ups on offer from the monastry tiles in the market
some are really good (1 silver for 2 workers)
some work well with others (2 workers for 1 building)
get some for bonus scoring at the end
2 of the same building types (beige) can’t be in the same area as eachother (e.g. 2 banks)
Inns expand an area by a bonus 1 – best used within bigger areas for bigger bonuses
Look for shipping opportunities to get goods that stack so that 1 selling action gets multiple tiles scoring
Look to sell goods that match covered bonus tiles on the trade route (sell a stack to cover multiple bonus tiles – they unstack)
Try to place tiles in a way that there are a range of numbers and colours connecting to keep options open