The GAME without salt notes Concordia Salsa: game rules BYZANTIUM / without salt Forum without salt Additional game material: The two scenarios are also playable Some forum cards bring salt into play. The 5 bonus markers (1x cloth, 1x wine, without salt cities. At first the game setup Nevertheless it is possible to play with the 1x food and 2x brick) and the blank city are game material remains the same (with salt city tokens). forum cards, but without the salt expansion. just additional material. The salt cities are than exchanged with city Therefor the word “salt“ changes to “any The Praefectus Magnus is a robust Game board with two scenarios: Byzantium and Hispania Forum tableau tokens from the unused letter group: good“ and “salt city“ to “any city“. edition of the Praefectus Magnus card. The Salt city A becomes a tool city Example 1: “TITUS VALERIUS“ Exchange 2 salt cities player aids complement the old Salt city B becomes a wine city 1 good with any (other) good. player aids. Salt city C becomes a cloth city Example 2: “MARCUS“ Build 1 house in The blank forum card is for your own ideas any city for only 1 tool. or it can cover the stack, if that is the wish Salt city D becomes a brick city of the players.

the development of Concordia Salsa

After the great success of the multiple award-winning Concordia, important game elements. there had been requests to add some new cards to the game. My special thanks go to everyone who worked as a play tester, Moreover, it seemed a charming idea to give the players more spin doctor, or creative agent, to make CONCORDIA SALSA as flexibility with an additional wildcard resource. special as it is: 1 game rulebook

SERVIUS MARCELLUS GAIUS MARCELLUSSERVIUS MARCELLUS GAIUS MARCELLUS Last but not least, after Italia, Britannia, and , more Ralph Anderson, Claudia Barmbold, Mark Bigney, Stephan Bo- SERVIUS MARCELLUS GAIUS MARCELLUSSERVIUS MARCELLUS GAIUS MARCELLUS 3x SERVIUS MARCELLUS GAIUS+ MARCELLUS3x SPURIUS LAURENTIUS+ 3x 3x regions under former control of the waited to be rowski, Maja Damkovac, Peter Dörsam, Marina Fahrenbach, Jens Get 1 additional+ Get 1 additional+ Trade 33x types of Trade 3 types of sestertiusGet 1 additional for every+ sestertiusGet 1 additional for every Tradegoods 3 types of Tradegoods 3 types of sestertiusgoodGet you 1 additional for sell every sestertiusgood you for sell every rewarded with a local map to play on. Külpmann, Rüdiger Kuntze, Frank Lamprecht, Yvonne Lange, goods goods Trade 3 types of sestertiusgood you for sell every goodTake you 1 bricksell Take 1 salt goods good you sell and 1 food The result of all these considerations now is CONCORDIA Michael Lopez, Thomas Mumm, Maike Wagner, the playtesters SALSA. There had been discussions about the name, but in the from Stahleck castle, and many more who cannot all be named. end it covers this expansion quite well: Without your help this amazing expansion would not exist! 12 salt 4 salt city tokens 2 salt cities player aids 27 forum cards (+1 blank) Praefectus Magnus 5 bonus markers First, the new commodity salt spices up the game. And second, Hamburg, September 2015 the dance around the forum cards has become one of the most Mac Gerdts summary list of cities Concordia Salsa (Latin for “salted“) spices Concordia Salsa is combinable in various on the back side of the forum tableau. PETRA Petra CARTHAGO Carthago the base game with three new elements: ways: All three elements can be used to- BYZANTIUM Specifics of the game board: PHILIPPOPOLIS Plovdiv CORDUBA Cordoba 1. Salt as a new good, produced in salt gether or separately. ALEXANDRIA Alexandria Start city for BYZANTIUM is Byzantium, SALAMIS Famagusta GENUA Genoa cities. Salt is a wildcard resource and General and game setup: AMASTRIS Amasra can replace any other good. Start city for HISPANIA is Saguntum. Silifke MASSILIA Marseille The rulebook of the base game Concordia ANCYRA Ankara 2. The forum: 27 forum cards offer room These two start cities similiarly replace SINOPE Sinop NARBO MARTIUS Narbonne forms the basis for the game rules and the “Roma“ in the text of the personality cards ANTIOCHIA Antakya for new strategies. game setup of Concordia Salsa. The dif- SPARTA Sparti NOVA CARTHAGO Cartagena Tribune and Colonist. APOLLONIA Sozopol 3. The game board with 2 new scenarios. ferences for the game setup are described STOBI Stobi OLISIPO Lissabon APPIA Pinarcik/Kütahya Thessaloniki OSTIA Ostia Antica ATHENAE Athens TOMIS Constanta OSSONOBA Faro ATTALIA Antalya Salt and Salt cities TYRUS Tyre PANORMUS Palermo BYZANTIUM Istanbul ZYGRIS Marsa Baqqush POMPAELO Pamplona CAESAREA Kayseri 1. Salt as a good Examples SALAMANTICA Salamanca Cherson Salt is, like any other good, stored in the storehouse. Salt is a wild- HISPANIA SAGUNTUM Sagunto CYRENE Shahhat card, which means you can exchange salt with any other good at To 1.: A player plays the Tribune. They own 1 food and 1 salt, TARRACO Tarragona DELPHI Delphi ALERIA Aleria any time. But you can never buy or sell salt for sestertii. You get salt but no tool. The player exchanges the salt for 1 tool, hands the THAMUGADI Timgad when your salt cities produce or through some of the forum cards. 2 goods over and places a new colonist on the game board. GAZA Gaza BRACARA Braga To 3.: At the end of the game a player possesses 2 Minerva TINGIS Tangier 2. Building of salt cities GORTYN Agii Deka BRIGANTIUM A Coruna cards, Vintner and Mason, and the following cities: TOLETUM Toledo ILIUM Hisarlik CAESAREA Cherchell A salt city costs 1 tool + 1 wine + 5 sestertii (+ 5 additional sestertii TOLOSA Toulouse for every house which is already in the city). MILETUS Milet CAESENA Cesena PANTICAPAION Kerch CARALES Cagliari 3. Victory points for salt cities Salt cities count for JUPITER (temple cities) and for SATURNUS (provinces) as usual. For MINERVA (specialists) every salt city counts for exactly one type of good. The Vintner yields 4 victory points for every wine city. The Attention: Salt cities do not count for MERCURIUS (different types player therefore counts their salt cities as wine cities. They get of goods). 3x4 = 12 victory points for the Vintner and 2x3 = 6 victory points for the Mason. Copyright: © 2015 PD-Verlag, Everstorfer Str. 19, D-21258 Heidenau, www.pd-verlag.de Forum cards + Forum Tableau The Forum cards

Summary CLAUDIA AGRIPPINA ANNAEUS ARCADIUS TITUSAULUS VALERIUS ARCADIUS APPIUS ARCADIUS Note: Per move you You get 4 extra Example: A player The 27 forum cards divide into 13 patricians (blue) and 14 citizens (green). The blue patricians are permanent cards, which means can build just− one + they stay the whole game at the owner´s side. Conversely, the green citizens offer a one-time advantage. After their use you must storage spaces and 1 with 2 colonists has Use 1 foreign colonist house with the help 1 brick immediately. ExchangeEvery house 1 good costs 1 additional 3 movement steps. discard them. adjacent to you to of a foreign colonist. build a house 1with sestertius 1 salt less movement step

Acquisition of forum cards The players start the game with one patrician AULUS ARCADIUS APPIUSCORNELIUS ARCADIUS SCIPIO LUCIUS FLAVIUS FAUSTUS MARCELLUS Note:DONATUS It is allowed POMPEIUS to ANNAEUS ARCADIUS Note: In cities with Note: If there are (see game setup on the back of the forum tableau). FAUSTUS MARCELLUS TITUSTITUSTITUSTITUSDONATUS VALERIUS VALERIUS VALERIUS POMPEIUS ANNAEUSANNAEUS ARCADIUS ARCADIUS ANNAEUS ARCADIUS + buy just 1 brick (for +1 1 AUGUSTUS QUINTUSAULUS ARCADIUS APPIUSNUMERIUS ARCADIUS MAMILIUSMAMERCUS MARCUS / − several houses= + you 2 Consuls on sale, When a player plays the Tribune, they can take Nutze 1 fremden 1 free), but /that counts When producing goods NutzeNutze 1 1fremden fremden 2x When buying bricks Tausche 1 Ware benachbartenNutze 1 fremden Kolonisten 5x takeTauscheTausche the sestertii 11 WareWare from benachbartenbenachbarten Kolonisten Kolonisten Copy one of the in 1 Salz benachbartenzum Hausbau Kolonisten nonetheless save you can copy one − x +1 the first brick is free theininin bonus 11 1 SalzSalz Salz marker zumzum Hausbau Hausbau Replace additional When producing goods exactly one of the 4 displayed forum cards for zum Hausbau Every house costs 1 additional personality cards on sale When buying bricks as one of your two Every house costs Take1 additional 2 sestertii for BuildBuild houses 1 house without without Build 1 house in a salt cloths with any take the sestertii from Exchange 2 goods Buy up to 5 units of food Exception: a consul cannot 1 sestertius less movementevery province step with payingpaying bricks sestertii city for only 1 tool 1 sestertius less onlymovement 1 sestertius. step and buy the other. the first brick is free free. But they need a minimum number of already with 2 salt for 2 sestertii each one of your houses goods buy himself tradethe actions. bonus marker played personality cards (including the Tribune). The nessesary number of played personality cards is shown on the forum directly under the cards. SERVIUS MARCELLUS GAIUS MARCELLUS Example: The player SERVIUS MARCELLUS GAIUSSEXTUS MARCELLUS POMPEIUS CLAUDIUS POMPEIUS sells 1 cloth and Example: The player With 10 or more played personality cards the The player plays the Tribune. Including the Tribune they have 7 personality The player may trade 3x 3 bricks for 3x produces 2 cloths. player has the choice between all four cards. With cards played in front of them. They can therefore choose one of the first two + 3 types of +goods ? Get 1 additional 16 sestertii and gets Get 1 additional They get 1 cloth + 8 or 9 personality cards they can choose between forum cards (Quintus or APPIUS ARCADIUS). Trade 3 types of Trade 3 types of insteadA prefect of 2. may be 1 bonus good can be sestertius for every 4 sestertii extra sestertius for every 7 sestertii. the first three forum cards and with 6 or 7 between Afterwards they conduct their Tribune actions. goods good you sell goods goodused as you a diplomat sell sold immediately the first two forum cards. With 4 or 5 personality (for 4 sold goods). cards they can only take the first card.

Afterwards the remaining forum cards move to the FAUSTUS MARCELLUS DONATUS POMPEIUS SEXTUS POMPEIUS CLAUDIUS POMPEIUS CORNELIUS SCIPIO LUCIUS FLAVIUS left; the free place on the right is filled from the stock. The player gets The player Example: The If the stock is empty, the discarded forum cards are +1 1 sestertius if they chooses the prefect player buys a Consul / produce in a cloth and copies? a face-up = displayed on the right shuffled again. Replace additional Copy one of the When buying bricks When producing goods A prefect may be 1 bonus good can be personality cards on sale Red plays the Architect. They already moved their take the sestertii from province, otherwise personality card of cloths with any for 1 cloth and the first brick is free used as a diplomat sold immediately Exception: a consul cannot the bonus marker 2 sestertii. another player. goods 2 bricks.buy himself colonists and want to build now: AUGUSTUS QUINTUS Use of the forum cards In their storehouse red possesses 1 brick and 2x 5x Fundamentally a player can use and combine as 2 units of food. Furthermore they own the 3 pictured forum cards on the right. ANNAEUS ARCADIUS TITUS VALERIUS many forum cards in their move as they like. However AUGUSTUS QUINTUSPUBLIUS COMMODUS Example: The player the following points have to be respected: First red exchanges with AUGUSTUS 1 brick and Exchange 2 goods Buy up to 5 units of food Example: The player 2x Example: The player 5x owns houses in 1 food with 2 salt. with 2 salt for 2 sestertii each exchanges 1 brick exchanges 1 brick / 8 provinces. They get Then they play MAMILIUS and do no longer need Use 1 foreign colonist adjacent to you to Exchange 1 good with 1 salt. Exchange 2 goods andBuy up1Place totool 5 units 1with colonist of food2 salt. Take 1 tool per every 1. Many forum cards can only be used in combina- with 1 salt 3 provinces colonized 2 tools. any bricks in the following building action. build a house with 2 salt for 2for sestertii 5 sestertii each tion with the appropriate by yourself Finally red uses ANNAEUS ARCADIUS, so that personality card. SEXTUS POMPEIUS CLAUDIUS POMPEIUS they can build in the wine city, too. NUMERIUS MAMILIUS The player moves Example: The player Altogether red builds in the 3 pictured cities and VICTORIA JULIUS their colonists.SPURIUS They LAURENTIUS MAMERCUS builds aMARCUS house in a Example: CLAUDIUS ? pays 2 salt (as a wildcard for 1 cloth and 1 wine), have as many cloth city. There are POMPEIUS Acan prefect only may be be 1 bonus good can be 1 food and 15 sestertii. x The player gets used as a diplomat sold immediately movement steps as already 2 other used with the Prefect. The two citizens (AUGUSTUS Takeund 2 sestertiiMAMIL forIUS) Build houses without 1 brick and 1 food. every province with paying bricks 5 Move your own they would normally Take 1 brick Build 1 house without houses,Build 1 house therefore in a salt have to be discarded. Take 1 salt paying sestertii city for only 1 tool one of your houses colonists get during an and 1 food they save 2. Patricians (blue) remain with the players, citizens Architect action. 15 sestertii. (green) have to be discarded after use. 3. If you get goods by playing a forum card, you have NUMERIUS MAMILIUS MAMERCUS MARCUS The playerTIBERIUS builds NOVIUS The house is free, You do not have to to store these goods in your storehouse. After that ANNAEUS ARCADIUS TITUS VALERIUS 1 house in 1 salt city you do not need an pay bricks for any you can immediately use the new goods. x for just 1 tool.? They adjacent colonist and houses you build in 4. The building action of the Architect cannot be in- Take 2 sestertii for Build houses without Build 1 house without Build 1 house in a salt saveTake 1 winethe bonus and good the Build 1 house in you do not have to every province with paying bricks this move.paying sestertii city for only 1 tool from any active 1 brick city for free terrupted by the play of a forum card. That means: Use 1 foreign colonist one of your houses sestertii. (even without a colonist) play the Architect. Exchange 1 good province “Moving - Forum card - Building“ is allowed, but adjacent to you to build a house with 1 salt “Building - Forum card - Building“ is forbidden. 5. Newly obtained forum cards may be used in the NUMERIUS MAMILIUS PUBLIUS Note:COMMODUS TheAUGUSTUS player QUINTUS Example: The player may place the same move. 2x Example: The player owns houses in colonist either in 5x x buys 4 food for 5 provinces. They get / the start city or in a Take 2 sestertii for Build houses without Place 1 colonist TakeExchange 1 tool per 2 every goods Buy up to 5 units of food 8 sestertii. every province with 10 sestertii.paying bricks city3 provinces with one colonized of their Expert rule for the forum cards: for 5 sestertii with 2 salt for 2 sestertii each one of your houses houses.by yourself To make the best out of the different forum cards and starting with a forum card that you do not particulary like is one of the many challenges in Concordia Salsa. If you prefer a more balanced start, you can distribute the forum cards with the following auction variant: SPURIUS LAURENTIUS TIBERIUS Example:NOVIUS At least VICTORIA JULIUS Display “number of players +1“ blue forum cards. The starting player bids at least 0 victory points for one of the cards. All players can one cloth province The player gets The player gets then in order bid higher or pass, until everyone has passed. The winner of the auction gets the forum card and spends the victory ? has not produced yet. 5 victory points at the 1 salt. Build 1 house in points that were bid by going backwards on the victory point track. Players who already own a forum card cannot participate in further Take 1 brick Take the bonus good The player decides to 5 endMove of the your game. own Take 1 salt from any active 1 brick city for free colonists auctions. The auctions continue until everybody has a forum card. (If the starting player is not present, the second player starts the and 1 food (even without a colonist) province take 1 cloth. bidding and so on.) The last player without a forum card takes one of the last two cards for 0 victory points and discards the other.