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)