The game is played over a number of rounds and ends when a player has 5 victory points and their island is clear of any creatures.
Turns are divided into 5 steps, taken in order.
At the start of your 1st turn: Place your metropolis tile on 1 of the ports on your island board, taking the rewards you are covering up.
The player may perform the action on the action card.
You may construct 1 item of your choice from 3 available options.
General rules:
You may purchase 1, and only 1, additional action. The costs and available actions are depicted on your island board.
Your choices:
Only do this in a 2 player game!
Once each player has taken a turn, the round ends. Do the following:
The game ends immediately when a player meets the following 2 requirements:
Building | Description |
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Training Camp: Each 1 comes with a hoplite and allows for recruiting 1 hoplite during the recruit hoplite action. |
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Mine: Each 1 comes with an orichalcum and allows for producing 1 orichalcum during the produce orichalcum action. |
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Hospital: Whenever you capture a creature, 1 hoplite can be placed on the hospital. At the end of the capture action (all creatures fought), you can take back all hoplites on the hospital. |
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Oratory: Each Oratory allows your to keep 1 additional Titan. |
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Siege Engines: Whenever you fight a creature, you treat the depicted die value as a skull. |
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Arch: Whenever you capture a creature, also take 1 orichalcum in addition to the creature's loot. |
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Protection Crystal: The owner of this building can construct buildings or temples adjacent to creatures. However, this building cannot be constructed adjacent to a creature. |
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Architect practice: You can have 2 identical terrains among the 4 upon which you are constructing a temple. Volcanoes are still wild. |
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Forge: At the end of their turn, the forge owner is allowed to perform a 2nd extra action, but they still must pay the cost. |
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Statues: The cost for purchasing an additional action is reduced by 1 when spending the depicted resource. |
Creature | Description |
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Hellhound: The player capturing this creature earns 1 orichalcum. |
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Minotaur: Randomly draw 1 building from the bag and construct it on any free terrain of your choice. It cannot be constructed next to a creature. If a mine/training camp is constructed, immediately take an orichalcum/hoplite. If you decide not to construct the building, put it back in the bag. |
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Gorgon: Immediately earn 2 orichalcum. |
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Cyclops: Immediately earn 3 orichalcum. |
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Hydra: Immediately take the depicted Titan no matter where it is. It should be placed in the left-most slot on its active side. |
Icon | Description |
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1 hoplite |
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Discard 1 hoplite |
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Heal 1 hoplite |
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Recruit 1 hoplite |
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1 orichalcum |
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Discard 1 orichalcum |
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Produce 1 orichalcum |
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A creature |
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Automatically capture a creature |
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A captured creature |
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Discard 1 captured creature |
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1 additional Titan |
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That Titan |
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A building |
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Action: Capture creatures |
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Action: Construct |
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Action: Produce orichalcum |
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Action: Recruit hoplites |
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Perform an additional action |
Credit: | Jay Deiman |
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Version: | 1.1 |