Concordia Salsa: Game Rules
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THE GAME WITHOUT SALT NOTES Concordia Salsa: game rules BYZANTIUM / HISPANIA 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 Germania, 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 Roman Empire 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. SELEUCIA 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 THESSALONICA 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 CHERSONESUS 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).