How to Play

Kingsburg

2-5 players 90-90 min 7.2 Board Game Geek Rating

Players serve as Lords managing frontier territories over five years. Each year features three resource-gathering seasons followed by winter invasions that must be individually defeated. The core mechanic involves rolling influence dice and placing them on King's Council advisers to collect resources, build structures, and train troops. Lowest dice totals choose placement first, balancing unlucky rolls. Victory goes to whoever best develops their territory through military, economic, or prestige strategies.

Published 2007

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

Shuffle advisor tiles

At the end of setup, shuffle the advisor tiles and place them facedown near the board

Prepare tile stack

Keep all 16 advisor tiles in a facedown stack ready for the productive seasons

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

Draw and place tile

At the start of each productive season, the first player in turn order draws one tile, reveals it, and places it on the matching advisor

Apply new effect

For the rest of the game, that advisor provides the effect shown on the tile instead of its original reward

Resolve advisor abilities

When influencing an advisor with a tile, gain its specific reward:

Handle multiple influences

If multiple players influence the same advisor during the same season using the king's envoy, they gain rewards in turn order

Spend VP when needed

You can spend 1 VP even if you have zero or negative VP by moving your token back on the score track

Winning

How to claim victory.

Standard victory

Win by accumulating the most victory points through advisor rewards, building, and defeating enemies

Inverted Order Variant

After using standard rules, try placing all tiles at setup; at the end of each productive season, remove the tile from the highest-ranked influenced advisor, or return the lowest-ranked tile to the box if none were influenced