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Follow five phases
Complete phases in order: Start of Turn, Trade, City Management, Movement, Research
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Pass first player marker
At the start of each turn (except the first), pass the marker one player to the left
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Take actions in player order
Starting with the first player and proceeding clockwise, each player completes all actions in a phase before the next player begins
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Perform start of turn abilities
Resolve any abilities from wonder cards or culture events that activate at start of turn
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Build new cities
If you have fewer cities than your maximum (2, or 3 with Irrigation), place a city marker where a scout stands if the square meets requirements
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Remove the scout
Return the scout figure to your civilization sheet when founding a city
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Move displaced figures
If friendly figures occupy the new city center, immediately move them to the nearest legal square
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Change government
Switch to any unlocked government form; if not the turn after unlocking, must first change to Anarchy (lose capital's action that turn)
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Collect trade dividends
Sum all trade symbols in all city outskirts and advance your trade dial by that amount (maximum 27)
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Account for blockades
Squares containing enemy figures produce no trade for you
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Use scout gathering
Scouts collect trade from their square and send it to a designated city
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Negotiate with players
Trade with other players exchanging: promises, trade points, unused culture tokens, resource tokens, or culture event cards
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Complete trades simultaneously
All players may conduct trade phase actions at the same time to save time
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Perform one action per city
Each city takes exactly one action: produce something, devote to the arts, or harvest a resource
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Calculate production capacity
Count production symbols in the city's 8 outskirts squares
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Account for production blockades
Squares with enemy figures produce nothing
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Accelerate with trade
Spend 3 trade points to gain 1 additional production for that turn
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Produce figures
Spend 4 production for an army or 6 production for a scout; place the figure in the city's outskirts (not on water unless you have sailing technology)
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Produce military units
Spend production equal to unit cost (5/7/9/11 for ranks 1-4, 12 for aircraft); draw randomly from appropriate deck and add to standing forces
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Produce buildings
Spend production shown on the technology card that unlocks the building; place the token in city outskirts on appropriate terrain
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Apply building effects
Building tokens replace all icons on their square with the building's icons
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Respect building limits
Only one starred (limited) building per city; buildings have terrain restrictions shown on market board
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Build city walls
Use Masonry technology to spend production and flip city marker to walled side
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Produce wonders
Spend production cost shown on wonder card (reduced cost if you have the listed technology); place wonder token in outskirts and take wonder card
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Replace drawn wonders
When a wonder is built, draw a new wonder card from the deck to refill the market
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Replace existing structures
When placing a new building or wonder, you may remove one of your existing buildings or wonders from that city
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Devote to the arts
Take 1 culture token plus 1 additional token per culture symbol in that city's outskirts
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Account for culture blockades
Squares with enemy figures produce no culture
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Spend culture tokens
Pay the cost shown on the culture track to advance your culture marker one space and receive the indicated reward
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Pay combined costs
Later spaces require both culture tokens and trade points
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Draw culture events
When landing on a culture event space, draw from the indicated deck and add to your hand
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Gain great persons
When landing on a great person space, draw a random great person token
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Place great persons
Put great persons in any city's outskirts; they function like buildings but return to your civilization sheet if replaced
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Harvest resources
If a resource icon exists in city outskirts, take one matching token from the market and place on your civilization sheet
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Respect resource limits
Cannot harvest if no tokens of that type remain in the market; only one resource per city action
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Move figures sequentially
Move each figure one at a time, completing its movement before starting another
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Observe travel speed
Move up to your civilization's travel speed (starts at 2, increased by technologies like Horseback Riding)
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Move orthogonally only
Figures cannot move diagonally
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Move groups together
Figures starting in the same square may move together as a group
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Respect stacking limit
Never exceed your stacking limit (starts at 2) of figures in one square
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Handle water movement
Initially figures cannot enter water; Navigation allows crossing but not stopping; Sailing/Steam Power/Flight allow stopping on water
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Explore map tiles
Spend 1 movement point when adjacent to a face-down tile to flip it; orient the arrow away from your figure
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Place huts and villages
After revealing a tile, draw and place face-down hut tokens on hut symbols and village tokens on village symbols
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Investigate huts
When an army enters a hut square, stop movement and take the token; place face down on civilization sheet to use as a resource
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Attack villages
When an army enters a village square, stop movement and fight barbarians
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Handle enemy scouts
If your army enters a square with only enemy scouts, they are destroyed and you collect spoils
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Initiate combat
If your army enters a square with enemy armies, battle occurs immediately
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Move through friendly cities
Figures may pass through your city centers but cannot end movement there
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Restrict scouts
Scouts cannot enter squares with huts, villages, or enemy figures; scouts cannot enter enemy city centers
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Determine attacker and defender
The moving player is attacker; the stationary player (or barbarian controller) is defender
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Draw battle hand
Shuffle your standing forces and draw cards equal to your battle hand size (base 3)
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Increase hand size
Add 2 cards per additional friendly army in the square; add 1 for Fundamentalism government; add 3 when defending a city
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Orient unit cards
Rotate each card so the edge matching your military tech marker rank faces up
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Calculate combat bonuses
Total your bonuses: +2 per Barracks, +4 per Academy, +4 per Great General on map, +6 defending non-capital city, +12 defending capital, +4 defending city with walls
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Take bonus card
Player with higher total bonus takes the battle bonus card set to the difference between bonuses
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Play units alternately
Defender plays first, then alternate; each play either creates a new front or attacks an enemy front
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Create fronts
Play a unit card without attacking; it remains until destroyed or battle ends
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Attack existing fronts
Play a unit against an enemy unit; both deal damage equal to their strength simultaneously
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Track wounds
Place wound tokens on damaged units; units destroyed when wounds equal strength
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Apply trump effects
When a unit attacks or is attacked by the type it trumps (shown by effectiveness symbol), it deals damage first; if this destroys the enemy, no return damage is taken
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Use aircraft
Aircraft (strength 5-7) cannot trump or be trumped
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Use battle abilities
Activate resource abilities before or after attacking a front, never during
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Resolve battle end
When both players play all battle hand cards, remove all wound tokens; each player totals remaining unit strength plus bonus card value
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Determine winner
Higher total wins; defender wins ties
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Calculate winner's losses
Winner loses 1 army figure per 2 units destroyed (never the last army)
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Claim spoils from figures
If defeating enemy figures, choose one: up to 3 trade points, up to 3 culture tokens, or any 1 resource token
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Destroy defeated cities
If attacker defeats a non-capital city, remove city marker to owner's sheet; return buildings to market; remove wonders and great persons from game; winner may learn one defender's technology (if legal placement exists), steal one culture event card, or steal up to 2 resources
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Win military victory
Attacker capturing a capital wins the game immediately
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Return surviving units
All surviving military units (winner's and loser's) return to standing forces; destroyed units go face up to bottom of their decks
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Research simultaneously
All players perform research at the same time
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Check trade requirements
Technology costs are: Level I = 6 trade, Level II = 11, Level III = 16, Level IV = 21, Level V = 26
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Verify pyramid placement
Level I technologies form the base; each higher level technology must rest on two lower level technologies
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Select technology secretly
Choose a technology card and place face down in your pyramid
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Reveal together
All players flip their new technologies simultaneously
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Spend all trade
Research consumes all accumulated trade regardless of cost (dial resets toward 0)
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Retain trade with coins
Keep 1 trade point per coin you possess after researching
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Apply technology effects
Immediately gain all benefits listed on the new technology card
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Unlock items
Gain access to produce any building, unit type, or government shown on the card
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Upgrade units
When gaining a unit upgrade, move or flip your military tech marker; all existing units of that type immediately upgrade
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Upgrade buildings
When unlocking an upgraded building, flip all your existing base buildings of that type
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Use resource abilities
Spend indicated resources during specified phases to activate technology abilities; each ability once per turn maximum
