Khora: Rise of an Empire

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• Setup
  • Each Player

    • Each player sets up the following.

      • One city board.
      • One city tile chosen randomly from the 7 tiles.
      • Place your economy, culture, and military tokens in the level 1 spaces.
      • Place your development marker next to the bottom development on your city tile.
      • Place one of your dice in the empty space below your culture track.
      • Place your 7 action tiles in your color in front of you.
      • Deal each player 5 random politics cards, face down.
        • All players draft the politics cards by taking 1 and passing to left until all cards have been drafted.
      • Take 4 Drachmas.
  • General Setup
    • • Place the central board.
      • Place the deck of politics cards near the board.
      • Place the Drachma pool near the board.
      • Place 36 Knowledge tokens on the matching space on the right side of the board. Place the Minor Knowledge tokens near the board.
      • All players place their Citizen marker on level 3 of the citizen track.
      • The tax, glory, and troop markers all start at level 0.
      • Create the Event card deck:
        • Set aside the Growing Populations and Conquest of the Persians cards.
        • Place the Conquest of the Persians face down next to the board.
        • Shuffle the 14 remaining cards and take 7 at random and place them face down on top of Conquest of the Persians.
        • Put Growing Populations face down on top of the stack.
      • Each player places their victory point marker on the zero space of the score track. Place the victory point tiles near the zero space of the score track.
      • Place the Philosophy tokens near the board.
      • All players now apply the text of their 1st (unlocked) Development. Note that some cities gain an immediate benefit. If you move up on a track, also gain the benefits from the new level.
      • Randomly choose a start player.
• Gameplay

  • Khora is played over 9 rounds, tracked by the event deck. Each round is divided into 7 phases.

  • A. Event Announcement

    • The start player reveals the top card of the event deck, placing it face up and reading the text. Note that **the event will be resolved in F. Event Resolution.

      Exception: The Growing Population event takes place during the C. Dice phase of the round it is revealed in.

  • B. Tax

    • Each player gains Drachma equal to the level of the marker on the tax track.

  • C. Dice

    • Each of the following steps are done simultaneously.

      1. Roll all of your available dice.
         • The player who rolls the lowest total sum will be the start player for the round. If tied, the start player is the player closest to the last start player, going clockwise.
      2. Choose your actions.
         • Each player secretly assigns 1 of their 7 action tiles to each of their dice. Each tile can only be matched with 1 die.
      3. Reveal your chosen actions.
      4. Adjust the position of your citizen marker.
         • For each die/tile pair, if the die value is less than the number on the tile, you must lower your citizen marker by the difference between the 2 values.
         • If you can't lose the required citizens, you cannot use that tile this round and it must be set aside.
  • D. Actions

    • Resolve all the action tiles in increasing order. The tiles can be resolved simultaneously until the Military tile (#4), which must be done in turn order. All actions are optional.

      See clarifications in the sections below.

    • 0 Philosophy

      • There is no limit to the number of Philosophy tokens you can have. There 3 ways to use them.

    • 1 Legislation

      • You can temporarily exceed level 15 on the citizen track and spend these extras this round. Any unspent citizens over 15 will be reset to 15 at the end of the action phase. There is no limit to the number of politics cards you have in hand.

    • 2 Culture

      • If your scoring marker passes 89 on the score track, place your victory point tile in front of you.

    • 3 Trade

      • You can buy any color of Minor Knowledge token from the reserve next to the board by paying 5 Drachmas.

        You can only buy 1 Knowledge token per action, but there is no limit to the number of Knowledge tokens you can have.

        The reserves for Drachmas and Knowledge tokens are unlimited.

    • 4 Military

      • You can temporarily exceed level 15 on the Military track and explore with extra Military. If you still exceed 15 at the end of the action phase, reset the marker to 15.

        To Explore:

        1. Choose a Knowledge token that is still available.
        2. Your Military must be >= to the value of the Military to the right of the Knowledge token.
        3. Lose Military on the track equal to the skull value.
        4. Take the Knowledge token. Also gain any benefits shown below the token's space. You can only explore once per action to gain 1 Knowledge token.
           • Exception: Exploring Persepolis allows you to take all the Major Knowledge tokens from the board at the same time.
    • 5 Politics

      • To play a Politics card:

        1. Verify you have the token(s) required, shown in the upper right of the card. Minor or Major Knowledge tokens don't matter. Do not spend the tokens!
        2. Pay the required Drachma shown in the upper left of the card. Note that some cards have no Drachma cost.
        3. Place the card in front of you.
           • Cards with a yellow background have an immediate effect. Apply its effect as much as possible and leave it in front of you.
           • Cards with a purple background have an an ongoing effect. Its effect remains active for the rest of the game.
           • Cards with a red background have an end-game effect. Apply its effect during final scoring.
    • 6 Development

      • To unlock the next development on the development track of your City tile, do the following:

        1. Verify you have the Knowledge tokens required, shown just above the next development. It doesn't matter if the Knowledge tokens are Major or Minor. Do not spend the tokens!
        2. Pay the required Drachma. Some developments don't have a Drachma cost.
        3. Move the development marker to the next space. The effect to the right is now active, along with every effect below the marker. There are 3 types of developments.
           • Immediate effects (lightning bolt) are applied as soon as this is unlocked.
           • Ongoing effects (infinity) are applied for the rest of the game.
           • Final scoring effects are applied during final scoring.
        4. You can only take this action 3 times during the game.
  • E. Progress

    • In turn order, each player may choose to improve a single track on their city board: economy, culture, or military. To improve on the track, they must pay the Drachma cost for the next level on that track.

  • F. Event Resolution

    • Apply the effect of the Event card that was revealed earlier this round.

      • If an effect targets the player with the most/least military, only that player applies the effect. If multiple players are tied, all tied players apply the effect.
      • If the effect concerns an element other than military, all players apply the effect.
  • G. Achivement

    • Each Achievement can only be completed once, and only during this phase of the round. If more than one player achieves the same Achievement in the same round, they all earn that Achievement.

      If you have completed an Achievement, place 1 of your Achievement tokens on the matching space of the central board. Then, receive:

      • If you are the only player to complete the Achievement, move up 1 space on either the tax or glory track.
      • If multiple players completed the Achievement, each player moves up 1 space on the tax track

      Achievements can never be lost, even if you no longer meet the requirements later. Once an Achievement is complete, no other player can earn that Achievement in later rounds.

      If you have reached the end of round 9, go to End of the Game or proceed to the next round with Event Announcement.

• Philosophy Tokens

  • There are 3 different ways to use Philosophy tokens.

    • During the C. Dice phase (step 4, adjust the citizen marker), you may spend as many Philosophy tokens as you like. For each token spent, gain 3 citizens on the citizen track.
    • During the Politics or [Development[(#development) action during D. Actions phase, you may spend as many pairs of Philosophy tokens as you like. For each pair of tokens spent, you can ignore 1 Knowledge token requirement to play a card or unlock a development. Do not take these Knowledge tokens.
    • During the E. Progress phase, you may spend as many Knowledge tokens as you like. For each token spent, you can move up one extra level on the track of your choice, but you must still pay the required Drachmas.
• End of the Game (Final Scoring)

  • The game ends after 9 rounds.

    Final Scoring (add the following):

    • Any points from end game developments.
    • Any points from end game politics cards.
    • Points equal to their glory level multiplied by the number of Major Knowledge tokens they possess.

    The player with the most points wins. If there is a tie, the player with the most Drachma wins. If there's still a tie, share the victory.

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