Christophe Blinger

GAME RULES

ame components

2-4 players

1 action wheel (double-sided) Reverse side: Balance of the archipelago

RESEARCHER
1AD
Reveal the first 5 cards from the evolution deck. Y ou may purchase a progress card among these cards for its minimal cost. Discard the other cards.

5 players

30 secret objective cards, 10 for each desired game length: short, medium, long
15
EXPANSIONISM

25 region hexagons, each double-sided with a different region on each side, stored in a separate storage tray
Exotic fruit Wood

= 5

15 12 10
Stone Iron

= = =

= 1

15
Y ou can perform one migration action without spending an action disc.
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Cattle

=
Fish

51 florin ( ) coins, including: 21 gold coins with a value of 5 , 30 silver coins with a value of 1

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Character card

Progress card

12 trend cards

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48 evolution cards, including 24 character cards and 24 progress cards 5 sets of player pieces

82 resource cubes
Scoring track on reverse side

per player:

An evolution track, with room for 5 evolution cards 13 market / port tokens

4 ships 10 citizens (meeples) 5 Action Discs (AD)

1 turn order marker

Meeple: a game piece in the stylized shape of a person

13 town / temple tokens

A domestic market board (I)

An export market board (II)

24 explorer tokens
A colony stability board (III) with: one to represent the colony population, and one to represent the rebellion level A surplus workers board (IV) with: one to represent the surplus workers level

5 player screen aids

One rule book

A rchipelago recounts the great Age of Discovery, an era of intensive exploration and colonization of the world by European explorers. T he game covers the period from 1492 (discovery of the Antilles by Christopher Columbus) to 1797 (colonization of Tahiti). E ach player portrays an explorer and his team commissioned by a European nation to discover, colonize, and exploit islands. T he mission is intended to be one of peace: to meet the needs of the local population while providing commercial returns to the continent. T he archipelago and its natives must be treated fairly or T o complicate matters, a separatist or a pacifist may hide among the players. One or the other will attempt to use his influence to tilt the balance away from equilibrium and towards his respective goal of chaos and uprising or absolute peace. Are you ready to take on your discovery mission to the archipelago?
they will rebel, potentially leading to an all-out war of independence. A balance must be found between expansionism and humanism, between commercial goals and respect for local values, between knowledge sharing and unbridled industrialization. Such balance can only be achieved through each players commitment to make the archipelago a happy and productive colony. If not, the reckless exploitation of the islands resources and their inhabitants will ultimately lead to chaos and revolt.

AME SETUP

1 10

5 9
place 6resource cubes, one of each color, in the corresponding zones. In each zone, place the cube in the upper-left-most corner.

4 9
All remaining resource cubes, florins, market/ port, and town/ temple tokens constitute the bank of available resources, money and buildings. With the 24explorer tokens, make 3piles of 8tokens each, storing them in the appropriate spaces in the storage tray. Assemble and place the evolution track next to the game box. Shuffle the 48evolution cards, ensuring that they all have the same facing and orientation (this is very important). Place the deck in the storage tray in the space indicated, with the side showing the balance of the archipelago information (reverse side) facing up as shown.

1. Place the four boards (I-IV) at the end of the table. 5. 2. On the domestic market board(I), 3.
On the colony stability board(III), position the population marker and rebellion marker on their respective icons (both start at zero at the beginning of the game).

8. 9.

Place the open sea hexagon at the center of the table.

6. 7.

On the surplus workers board(IV), position the surplus workers marker on its icon (it starts at zero at the beginning of the game).

4.

Each player chooses a color, takes the player screen aid, 1ship, 2citizens, 3action discs (AD), and the order marker of his color. He places the ship on the open sea hexagon, being careful not to cover any fish icons, and places the other pieces in front of his screen, visible to all. He also receives 10 which he places behind his screen. His other player pieces stay in the box until needed. P lace the action wheel within reach of all players, with the appropriate side showing for the number of players: one side for 2 to 4-player games; the other side for 5-player games.

10.

urn #

0 - Discovering the archipelago

his ship. Place both citizens on land areas, making sure not to cover any resource icons. The new citizens increase the population by 2points: move the population marker up 2points on the colony stability board(III).

Randomly decide the order of play for this F F turn. Each player places his order marker on the evolution track in the icon corresponding to his position in the order of play.

FF FF

FF

Shuffle the 24region hexagons and deal each player 3 hexagons (providing 6different region choices).

Example: In a 4-player game, the population marker is at 8at the end of turn #0.
Most regions contain huts. Whenever a player successfully explores a new region by placing his hexagon in the archipelago, he must increase the surplus workers level by the number of huts on the region tile, moving the surplus workers marker accordingly. Note: On each region (except the volcano), the number of resources and huts always adds up to 5. Most regions also have resource icons corresponding to the 6resource types in the game. When a player successfully explores a new region, he selects one of the resources produced by the region. He transfers the corresponding cube from the bank to the appropriate section in the domestic market, placing it in the upper-left-most available spot and moving across, then down. He then selects another resource produced by the region and takes the corresponding cube from the bank, placing it behind his screen. If the region produces only one resource, that resource goes to the domestic market.

Shuffle the trend cards, draw one at random, and place it face up so that it is visible to all players at all times. Put the remaining trend cards back in the game box; they will not be used in the game. Sort the objective cards into decks of 10according to the duration icon on their backs. Select an objective card deck based on the desired game duration:

Region: one of the two sides of a single hexagon

Initial exploration: In the order of play indicated F F on the evolution track, each player in turn chooses one of
the 6regions present on the 3hexagons he has in hand. He then places it with one side adjacent to the open sea hexagon. Respect the continuity of the landscape: water touching water, fields next to fields, and mountains against mountains. Starting with the second player, hexagons can be placed adjacent to previously placed hexagons as long as they are also adjacent to the open sea hexagon and respect landscape continuity on all touching sides, as shown below. If a player can show that none of his hexagons can be placed, he discards them and draws 3new hexagons from the top of the region deck.

FF

Average game duration

in minutes

FF

30 60 90

120 180

240

Example: T he newly discovered region produces 2wood and 2fish. T he player can decide to place one wood on the
domestic market and take one wood for himself, or he can do the same with thefish, or he can take one fish and place one wood on the domestic market, or vice-versa. Once all players have completed their first exploraF F tion, they return their two unused hexagons as well as any previously discarded hexagons back to the region deck. Shuffle the region deck again and place it in its dedicated storage tray.

Do not mix objective cards from different decks. Put the

two unused objective decks back in the game box. Shuffle the selected deck. Each player draws an objective card at random, looks at it secretly and places it face down beside him or behind his screen. T his card is the most secret information in the game. It should not be revealed and the information on it should not be shared with the other players. Objective cards determine endof-game and victory conditions (see How to win). Return all unused objective cards to the game box, without looking at them. They will not be used in the game.
BISHOP

N ote: In later explorations (after turn #0), newly

discovered hexagons will need to be placed in contact with at least two existing regions (see Exploration). Once a player has placed his F F first discovered region, he moves his ship from the open sea to the new region, takes the first explorer token from the first pileclosest to the edge of the box, and puts it behind his screen. Then two citizens of his color, taken from in front of his screen, disembark from

FF
IRON MINE

T urn over the first 5cards from the evolution deck and place them along the evolution track in the orientation shown here:
LOCAL COMMERCE MERCHANT
1AD
Y ou may buy or sell an unlimited number of cubes of the same resource type on the domestic market. The corresponding amount goes to or comes from the bank. Destroy an enemy ship present on the same region as one of your ships. The owner of the destroyed ship must give you a resource of his choice. If he has none, he must prove it by lifting his screen up.
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PIRATE

See 2-player rules at the end of this rulebook.

Y ou can perform a transaction of your choice on the domestic market without spending an action disc.
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FF The first turn can now begin.

ow to win

ARCHIPELAgO
independence

ach objective card indicates an end-of-game condition on its upper half and a victory condition on its lower half.

End-of-game condition

T he game ends when the end-of-game

condition on any one players objective card is met. It is therefore important for each player to constantly keep in mind the end-of-game condition on his objective card. Victory condition

Example: In a 4-player game, there are four different

end-of-game conditions. Each player is only aware of one of them. At the end of the game, every = 1VP player is ranked against the victory conditions of all objective cards in play, including those of the other players, and earns victory points (VP) based on his ranking in each objective.

Ranking criteria Player rank

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Game length

he game can end prematurely in case of archipelago independence. This happens if the rebellion marker moves past the population marker on the colony stability board(III).

Negotiating
Victory points (VP) iplomacy, negotiations, promises, agreements, understandings, alliances and treachery are commonplace activities in Archipelago. There can never be too much of it! This game is after all only semi-cooperative N egotiations and exchanges are authorized with the following constraints: Players can only negotiate during their round (Phase 5: Actions), during the resolution of a crisis, and when determining the order of play. Players can exchange, sell, give, or loan anything except their units or action discs. It is strictly forbidden for any player to voluntarily reveal his secret objective card.

Each player can also earn VP from the trend card in play,
and from certain character and progress cards (King, Pope, Cathedral, Colossus, etc.).

For more details:

See End of game.

FF FF FF

Note: T he end-of-game condition has no bearing on the

victory condition. Finishing the game does not score VP.

For a list of all objective cards:

See end of this rulebook.

HASE 1: Disen ga ge ment

E ach turn is divided in this order: which must be play

urn Game t ed into 6 phases

Skip this phase during turn #1.

1. D isengagement 2. Order of play 3. Population effects ipelago ch ar e th f o ce an al . B 4 5. Actions* rchase 6. Evolution card pu
: * In the order of your choice - Play one action ogress card - Use a character or prrt - Use a market or a po

layers disengage (rotate 90counterclockwise) all engaged character and progress cards they control. On each region, citizens and ships that harvested during the previous turn are moved off the resource icons. Make sure that all resource icons are clear of any citizen or ship. Players who have rebel citizens (meeples lying on their backs ) stand them up .

HASE

2: ORDER OF PLAY
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o decide the order of play, each player secretly bets a number of florins ( ) from behind his screen, placing the bet in his closed fist. Betting nothing is allowed. Each player holds his fist above the table. Once all bets are placed, everyone opens his hand to reveal the amount of his bet. All bet amounts are considered spent and go to the bank.

T he player with the highest bet decides the order of play for all players. He can therefore change the order of the players order markers on the evolution track as he likes. At this time, negotiations and bribes of all kinds are encouraged to try to convince the deciding player to award a better spot on the order of play. If no one has bet anything, the order of play stays unchanged. If two or more players are tied for the highest bet, the bet amounts go to the bank, and then those players bet again. In case of another tie, the order of play stays unchanged.

HASE

3: Population effects
marker: Keeps track of the level of discontent and frustration on the islands.

Colony population marker: Keeps track of the entire colony population, that is, the total number of meeples present on the archipelago at any time. Citizen: a member of the colony, represented
by a colored meeple on the archipelago

R ebellion

S urplus workers marker: Surplus

workers are not yet part of the colony and are not physically represented on the archipelago. T his marker keeps track of the level of available workers waiting to be recruited into the colony, whether natives or immigrants.

Apply population effects for each of the boards I to IV in

order, by moving the surplus workers marker and the rebellion marker on their respective boards as follows:

BOARD II: EXPORT MARKET

moves the surplus workers marker up 1. A colony population between 3 1 and 40 moves the surplus workers marker up 1 and moves the rebellion marker up 1.

BOARD I: DOMESTIC MARKET

E xample: A colony population between 11 and 20

T he export market is an exchange market with the continent.

Resources are on the docks, ready to be shipped out. When the market is saturated, the surplus workers level goes up.

The domestic market is stocked with locally harvested resources.

When too many resources are available, fewer workers are needed thereby potentially increasing the surplus workers level, or worse, the rebellion level.

djust the surplus workers marker same method as for board I.

using the

BOARD IV: SURPLUS WORKERS

or each of the 6different resource zones, the row containing the lower-right-most cube indicates with a number of rebel or surplus workers icons by how much to move the surplus workers marker or the rebellion marker . Repeat for all 6zones.

BOARD III: Colony stability

The surplus workers board displays the level of available workers waiting to be recruited into the colony. As the level increases, the surplus workers become increasingly unhappy. Each game turn represents approximately 15 years of the citizens lives. T he colony stability board shows how the rebellion gains on the population over time. A growing population increases the surplus workers level and the rebellion level.

he row containing the surplus workers marker indicates by how much to move up or down the rebellion marker .

T
E xample: 5fish resources on the domestic market

he row containing the population marker indicates with a number of rebel and surplus workers icons by how much to move the surplus workers marker and the rebellion marker .

moves the surplus worker marker up 1 on the surplus workers board (IV). 6iron resources moves the rebellion marker up 1 on the colony stability board (III).

E xample: With a surplus workers level between 13 and 17, move the rebellion marker up 2.

HASE
Skip this phase during turn #1.

4: Balance of the archipelago

to another player, previous players can no longer participate in helping solve the crisis. has not been supplied, move the rebellion marker for each missing resource. up 1

he balance of the archipelago is threatened by consumption needs of its inhabitants and export demands from the continent. The nature of the crisis is determined by the back of the card on top of the evolution deck.

O bviously, the first players will tend to use up the

resources present on the domestic market board(I) first. Then they will use up their own resources, if they so wish. All consumed resources are returned to the bank.

Event

For each resource cube consumedwherever

it comes fromthe player who consumed it stands the corresponding number of citizens of his choice up, potentially including other players citizens.

Consumption crisis on the domestic market Consumption crisis on the export market

he backs of some evolution cards show an event instead of a domestic or export consumption crisis.

In the same example shown, the player can stand 6citizens

up for each stone cube consumed.

O nce again, this is an ideal time to enter

negotiations with other players to compensate any services rendered. The player who consumed the resource must stand the indicated number of citizens up unless all citizens are standing already, even in the case of failed negotiations. and the balance of the archipelago is maintained. Go directly to the resolution of the export market crisis.

Event: Move the rebellion marker

for each temple in the archipelago.

down 2

B oth crises must be resolved to preserve the balance of

the archipelago.

Important: In this phase, ignore any

red-colored events that might be present on the card (see Phase 6).

Important: In this phase, ignore any When all citizens are standing again, the crisis has passed
red-colored zones that might be present on the card (see Phase 6). T he corresponding crisis is not solved in this phase.

If the event is not red, it is resolved here.

Once every player in turn has had a chance to

participate, if any citizens are still lying on their backs, they become rebel citizens and will stay rebels until phase 1 of the next turn. Move the rebellion marker up by the number of rebel citizens.

N ote: If the card stays visible on top of the evolution deck for multiple turns, the event is resolved in phase 4 of
each of those turns.

DOMESTIC
consumption crisis

he upper half of the card indicates the type of resource consumed and how many citizens can be sustained by one cube of that resource.

EXPORT
consumption crisis

In the example shown, 6citizens can be sustained with each

stone resource cube consumed.

T o resolve the crisis, lay all the citizens on

their backs, for all players and across the entire archipelago. Ships are not affected by the crisis.

he lower half of the card indicates the number and type of resource that must be provided to the export market.

I n the same example still, 3cattle resource cubes must be

consumed on the export market.

Starting with the first player and continuing in the

order of play, each player attempts to satisfy the consumption needs of the archipelago by providing the necessary resources, taking them either from the domestic market board (I)starting from the bottom-right-most cube of the appropriate section and moving towards the top-leftmost cubeor from behind his own screen. Once the responsibility of satisfying consumption needs has moved

Starting with the first player and continuing in the

order of play, each player will attempt to satisfy the consumption demand of the continent by providing the necessary resources, taking them either from the export market board (II) or from behind his own screen. All consumed resources are returned to the bank.

O nce every player in turn has had a chance to participate, if the required number of resources

Rebel vs. active citizens Independence

Rebel citizens refuse to work. T hey cannot perform any
actions. T hey cannot use or control a building, and they do not contribute to any money during a taxes action. f the rebellion marker ever moves past the population marker , an uprising ensues and the archipelago claims its independence. T he game ends immediately. All players have lost the game, unless a player has the Separatist objective card in which case he alone wins the game (see End of game).

Explorer token
conversion
n explorer token can be turned into a single resource cube of any type during the resolution of a crisis. The explorer token is then removed from the game (do not put it back on the explorer token piles).

Active citizens are citizens who are not rebels. T hey

work towards the development of their colony, and can therefore participate in all actions, and can use and control buildings.

Note: Independence is not declared if the rebellion marker Rebel citizen:

meeple lying on its back

Active citizen:
meeple standing up

is at the same level as the population marker .

A n explorer token can only be converted during a crisis or when a player performs an action requiring one or more resources. A resource so obtained contributes towards the actions resource requirement, including selling that same resource. Multiple explorer tokens can be converted into resources during the same action or crisis.

HASE

5: Actions
Rounds: Starting with the first player, and continuing in the order of play,
each player plays one round by placing one of his action discs (AD) on the action wheel and performing the corresponding action. Players continue playing rounds until all players have used up their action discs or cannot play anything; then they proceed to phase 6.

T he action wheel provides 13 different possible actions identified by various zones, including 6actions to harvest the different types of resources. resource harvest

construction market recruitment transaction reproduction migration port

A t the beginning of the game, each player has 3action discs. Once the first explorer token pile becomes empty = +1 (see Exploration), each player immediately gets a 4th action disc of his color which he can use for the rest of the game, starting with this turn. Once the second explorer token pile becomes empty, each player immediately gets a 5th action disc of his color which he can use for the rest of the game, starting with this turn.

Unlimited action zones: The following actions can be performed more than once by the same or different players: the 6resource harvest actions,
recruitment, construction, transaction, and migration. Just pile up the various action discs on the same action zone (do not cover the action icon). There is no limit to the number of action discs that can be piled on these actions.

Limited action zones: Taxes, reproduction, and exploration can only receive a limited number of action discs, as indicated by the colored circles within the action zones. A player who wishes to perform one of these actions must place his action disc on the circle corresponding to his color if it is not yet occupied. If it is occupied, place the action disc on one of the multicolored circles if one remains available.

taxes

exploration

market T he port and market are not considered action zones. T hey port receive florins instead of action discs (see Port, Market).

HARvEST
Do not place the action disc on the icon!

For each deployed unit, the player takes a corresponding

resource cube from the bank and places it behind his screen.

There is no limit to the number of resource cubes that can

be harvested during a single harvest action. However, a single harvest action can only harvest one type of resource.

Units that participate in the harvest must remain on the

Fish Exotic fruit Cattle Stone Wood Iron

Active player: the player whose round it is Unit: any ship

(active or citizen or rebel )

resource icons they harvested until the next disengagement phase. They are considered engaged. Certain actions like harvest, construction of a building, using a port or market engage the units used to perform the action. T his means that they are not able to perform additional actions that would require moving them. However, they can still reproduce and recruit in their region.

Engaged units:

Active unit:
an active citizen or a ship (Ships are always considered active as they cannot rebel.)

hoose a resource to harvest. The active player deploys as many active, non-engaged units across the entire archipelago as desired on unoccupied resource icons of that type, one unit per icon.

TAXES

E ach unit must

remain in the region (hexagon) it occupied before the action.

A player cannot harvest resources in a region that

is controlled by another player unless he has that other players permission (see Towns).

N ote: Resource cubes are limited in quantity. If a

resource is nearly out of stock at the bank, it is possible that the harvest will not yield as many cubes as the number of harvested locations.

Fish resources can only

be harvested by ships. The other resources can only be harvested by active citizens.

Transaction

T he price of the transaction is determined by the row

from which the cube is taken, or on which it is placed. The corresponding money goes to or comes from the bank.

N ote: If a resource section is full on a given market,

it is no longer possible to sell that resource on that market.

T he taxes action can only be performed a limited number of times per turn.

Transaction: purchase or sale of one resource

cube on either the domestic or the export market

ove the rebellion marker up1 each time a player performs this action. For each active citizen, ship, town and temple under his control, the active player receives the number of florins indicated on the tax table from the bank.

he active player may perform one transaction on the domestic market or the export market.

F or a purchase, take the lower-right-most cube in the

R eminder: Rebels do not contribute any money during

a taxes action.

chosen resource zone. For a sale, place the cube on the upper-left-most available space of the corresponding resource zone.

E xample: Purchasing one fish cube will cost 4 , a second one also 4 , a third one 6 . Selling one fish cube would bring 4 , selling a second one 3 .

Exploration

The active player chooses a resource among the F F resources that the new region is capable of producing and takes a corresponding cube from the bank which he places on the domestic market. If there are other resource icons on the region, the active player receives a resource cube of his choice from the bank from the remaining resources that the new region is capable of producing. If the region produces only one resource cube, it goes to the domestic market and the player receives nothing.

3-citizen limit / : T here can never be more than 3citizens, whether active or rebel, controlled
by the same player on a single region. Having units of different colors in the same region is allowed as long as the limit of 3citizens per player is respected. T here is no limit on the number of ships.

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Recruitment

T he exploration action can only be performed a limited number of times per turn. he active player decides whether he wants the first visible hexagon of the region deck. If not, he discards it to a separate discard pile and takes the next one. He must make that choice without advance knowledge of the next hexagon and without looking at the other side of the first visible hexagon. The hexagon deck must stay in its dedicated storage tray at all times. Once he has picked a hexagon, the player can look at both sides and decide which region to use.

E xample 1: T he region has two resource icons, one

wood, one exotic fruit. T he player places an exotic fruit cube on the domestic market. Since there is no more exotic fruit, he is left with a wood cube for himself.

Example 2: T he region has two cattle icons. One cattle

cube goes to the domestic market and the second cattle cube goes to the player.

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N ote: If the hexagon deck in the storage tray ever

becomes empty, shuffle all discarded hexagons into a new deck and place it back into the tray.

Increase the surplus workers level by the number of huts shown on the region.

he active player can recruit as many workers as he wishes in a single action, as long as he can pay for them and place them.

T he recruitment cost for a worker is shown on the

surplus workers board(IV), next to the row containing the surplus workers marker . The recruitment cost is paid to the bank.

Reproduction

Constraints that must be met

F F The new region must be placed adjacent to at least two other regions. F F Place the region so as to create a coherent landscape with respect to the sea, field, and mountain connections. One of the adjacent regions must contain F F one of the players active, non-engaged units (see Engaged FF
units). That unit is moved to the newly discovered region, and must be able to get there by sea for a ship, or by land for a citizen (no sea convoy allowed, see Migration). Only one unit is moved to the new region for each exploration.

= +1
T he reproduction action can only be performed once per player per turn. n each region where the player controls exactly 2citizens, he can add 1citizen of his color, taking a meeple from the box. Move the population marker up by the number of new citizens generated by reproduction.

Example: If there are 5surplus workers before recruitment, the active player can recruit 1worker for 3 , and a 2nd worker for another 3 . However, a 3rd worker would cost 4 .
T he player takes as many meeples of his color from the
reserve as the number of workers recruited and places them on land areas in the regions of his choice where he is already present with at least one active unit, engaged or not. He cannot place them in regions where he already has 3citizens (see 3-citizen limit). by the number of workers recruited, and increase the population marker by the same number.

Effects of exploration

F F If the active player cannot place the new hexagon, his exploration fails and the hexagon is discarded. If the exploration is successful, the active FF player receives an explorer token from FF
the first available explorer token pile and places it behind his screen. When that pile becomes empty, each player immedi= +1 ately receives an extra action disc of his color (5 maximum).

R eminder: T he population marker

zens can reproduce.

must always match the exact number of citizens present on the archipelago.

Lower the surplus workers marker

Rebels do not reproduce; however, active, engaged citiA player can never control more than 10citizens of his
color. A player cannot reproduce in a region where he already has 3citizens, whether active or rebel.

R eminder: T he population marker

workers is at zero!

must always match the total number of citizens on the archipelago.

10

N ote: Recruiting is not possible if the level of surplus

Migration

Sea convoy

he active player can move all of his active, non-engaged units. Each unit can move to an adjacent region, or it can move to an unoccupied building on the same region or an adjacent region. Ships must move by sea and cannot enter land areas. Citizens must move by land and cannot cross seas unless transported by ships of the same player (see Sea convoy).

A ship can help one or more citizens cross the sea. A migration of citizens by sea convoy does not use up the ships migration action. However, citizens who are transported by ship use up their migration action by choosing to be convoyed by sea. T o perform a sea convoy, place the ship participating in the convoy at the junction line between the departure region and arrival region, staying on its region, or on a sea inlet separating two land areas on the same region. The ship can perform its own migration before or after the sea convoy. Linked convoy: By using multiple ships in a linked convoy, a citizen can be transported across more than one region with a single migration action. ship leaves port to migrate to adjacent region migration to building on same region migration by land to sea convoy to adjacent region an adjacent region

migration to building on an adjacent region sea convoy across a sea inlet on the same region; then ship moves

more than 3citizens in a single region (see 3-citizen limit).

A t the end of his migration action, a player cannot have

linked convoy: 2 transported across 2 regions

Construction

Building a ship
nstead of a building, the active player can build a ship of his color in a region containing a sea area. The ship is built by an active, non-engaged citizen.

B uilding a ship does not engage the citizen

There can only be one construction of each type per region.
Therefore, each region can contain at most one town, one port, one market, and one temple. Constructions are limited by the number of building tokens available in the game. and is immediately available.

that builds it. The newly built ship is placed on the sea

Note: Each player is limited to its 4available ships.

Controlling a building
I f a unit leaves a building, the building is no longer
controlled, and the first unit that comes to it during a migration, even an opponents unit, takes control of the building.

Building a town, market, port, or temple

Once the construction cost in resources and florins is paid

to the bank, place a token representing the construction on the region. T own, temple, and market tokens are placed on land areas, not covering any resource icons. Port tokens are placed on the water in contact with the coastline. The unit that performed the construction is placed on the construction token. T hat

player controls a building if he has an active unit on that building.

he active player can construct a building for the price indicated on the construction cost table above. The construction must happen in a region containing at least one active, non-engaged citizen of the players color, or alternatively, a ship of his color if building a port.

unit is now engaged.

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Ports
A n active, non-engaged citizen or ship
can build a port, occupy it, and operate it.

Markets
An active, non-engaged citizen can build
a market, occupy it, and operate it.

Temples
An active, non-engaged citizen can build
a temple, occupy it, and operate it. A citizen on a temple is never laid on its back during the resolution of a crisis. In addition, during the resolution of a crisis, when it is the turn of the player controlling the temple, this player may choose to stand any desired number of citizens present in the temples region up for freeof his color and/or other players colors.

E ach port gives its controlling player the

opportunity to perform two transactions on the export market (see Transaction) without using action discs. T o control a port, the player must either occupy it with an active unit, or control it from a town.

E ach market gives its controlling player the

opportunity to perform two transactions on the domestic market (see Transaction) without using action discs. T o control a market, a player must either occupy it with an active citizen, or control it from a town. The player spends 1 on the action wheel on the market zone matching his color.

spends 1 from behind his screen on the action wheel on the port zone matching his color. Each controlled port can be used once and only once during the entire actions phase. Therefore, a player controlling 2ports could use each port once for a total cost of 2 placed on the port area of his color.

Each player can use one port or market during each of his rounds. To do so, he

Markets work the same way as ports.

T o control a temple, a player must either occupy it with

an active citizen, or control it from a town.

A citizen using the advantages provided by the

market becomes engaged and will therefore not be able to perform any other action that requires engaging it or moving it.

Special case: If a player controls a temple from a town,

but the citizen on the town becomes a rebel, the temple is no longer controlled. In order to use the temple, the player must first be able to stand the citizen up on his town before standing the other citizens on the region up.

A unit using the advantages provided by the

port becomes engaged and is therefore not able to perform any other action that requires engaging it or moving it.

Tactical note: Many events on the back of evolution

cards move the rebellion marker down by an amount proportionate to the number of controlled temples in the archipelago.

any other action that requires moving it. He may however use a port in one round, and a market in another. A town also provides control of all the resources present on a region. If other players wish to harvest those resources, they must ask for the town controllers permission. This provides another opportunity to enter negotiations and demand compensation from opponents for services rendered.

Controlling harvest:

the building and assume control since he controls the town in the region. He removes the rebel from the building and moves it elsewhere on the region, keeping it lying on its back (rebel state).

Towns
An active, non-engaged citizen can build
a town, occupy it, and operate it. town gives the player control of the region on which it is placed as long as he has an active citizen on that town. Controlling a region means that the player controls all the other buildings in the regionport, market, templeeven if he does not have active units engaged on the other buildings. The player can therefore benefit from the advantages provided by the port, market, or temple located in the region as long as he controls the town. Opponents cannot take control of any port, market, or temple on that region.

P layer B can take the risk of building a port/market/

temple in a region containing a town controlled by Player A. The same rules above apply, meaning that player B will control the building as long as he stays on it, but if he leaves it or if the unit on it becomes a rebel, player A will assume its control.

Multiple players in a region: If player A builds

a town in a region that contains a port, market, or temple which is occupied, and thus controlled by player B, player B remains in control of his building as long as his unit remains on it and does not become a rebel: As soon as player B leaves the port/market/temple, F F player A automatically assumes immediate control of the abandoned building. At the end of the resolution of a crisis, if the unit F F belonging to player B that occupies the port/market becomes a rebel, then player A can choose to expel it from

Sea inlets
T wo citizens on opposite banks of a sea
inlet cannot reproduce. A citizen cannot harvest a resource located on the opposite bank. A ship may recruit workers on either or both banks. A town controls the resources and unoccupied buildings on both banks. A temple allows that citizens may be stood up on both banks.

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Using a port or market: If a player uses the advantages of a port or market from the town, the citizen controlling the town becomes engaged and will therefore not be able to perform

D uring the exploration in turn zero, you may deploy

your citizens on either or both banks.

HASE

6: Evolution card purchase

PIR ATE
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Destroy an When determining the my ship present on ene order of play, the King the same region as one adds an of you r automatic 3 ships. The bonus the value of its destroyed owner ofto the controllers ship bet. mu st give you a res choice. If he ource of his must prove has none, he his screen it by lifting AD up.

Return all used action discs to their respective players. T he 1 coins on the port and market zones of the action wheel go to the bank.
t any given time, the evolution track contains 5cards representing the current set of evolution cards available for purchase.

KING

CATHEDRAL

Important: If, as a result of drawing a

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MERCHANT

BISHOP

Starting with the first player and continuing in the order

PIRATE
Destroy an enemy ship present on the same region as one of your ships. The owner of the destroyed ship must give you a resource of his choice. If he has none, he must prove it by lifting his screen up.

of play,

each player must either:

Purchase an evolution card and rotate one of the remaining cardsin that order Rotate two different cards.

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Y ou may buy or sell an unlimited number of cubes of the same resource type on the domestic market. The corresponding amount goes to or comes from the bank.

card, the next card on top of the deck includes a red zone on its back, the corresponding crisis or event must be resolved immediately, following the rules in Phase 4 . Non-red zones are ignored in this phase. T hey will come into play in Phase 4 of next turn.

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Immediate crisis on
T wo more players also rotate the Pirate card. T he red
triangle now points to its skull icon, so it must be discarded.

the domestic market Immediate crisis on the export market

or

T he red triangles on the evolution track point

towards the cost icon of each card (in florins). When purchasing a card, the player pays the cost indicated by the red pointer to the bank; then he takes the card and places it in front of him, visible to all players.

Immediate event:
MERCHANT LOCAL COMMERCE BISHOP

When rotating a card, rotate it 90clockwise.

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Move the rebellion marker down 1 for each temple in the archipelago.

The cost of the card will change, going up or down depending on the card. If the red pointer points to the skull on the card after the card is rotated, discard the card. spaces on the evolution track become empty as a result, fill them with cards drawn from the evolution deck, one at a time, to fill the empty spaces. Each new card is oriented upright such that it can be read, like the Merchant on the example shown.
LO
IRON MINE

Once a card is purchased and/or cards are rotated, if any The space left empty is filled with the top card of the evolution
deck. T he new card is the Exporter. It is placed in the empty slot, oriented upright so it can be read. T he back of the card on top of the evolution deck contains a red zone, a crisis on the domestic market, which must be resolved immediately.

Y ou can perform a transaction of your choice on the domestic market without spending an action disc.

Y ou may buy or sell an unlimited number of cubes of the same resource type on the domestic market. The corresponding amount goes to or comes from the bank.

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Move the rebellion marker up 1 for each town in the archipelago.

Immediate event:

N ote: It is possible for two cards to be removed from

the evolution track at the same time, potentially causing two immediate crises and/or events to be triggered during a single players purchase.

MERCHANT
M M C ER E
Y ou may buy or sell an unlimited number of cubes of the same resource type on the domestic market. The corresponding amount goes to or comes from the bank.

BISHOP
PI
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T actical note: Unlike in a normal crisis resolved in Phase 4, in an immediate crisis, only the total number
of citizens still lying on their backs at the end of the crisis matters because they increase the rebellion level. It does not matter who they belong to, since all citizens will become active again in Phase 1 of the next turn.

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E xample: T he first player chooses to rotate two cards

rather than make a purchase. He rotates the Pirate card and the Local Commerce card.

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HOW TO USE
evolution cards

Constructing the
wonders

volution cards (character or progress) can only be used during the actions phase. It is therefore not possible to use a card immediately after purchase because the actions phase is over at that time.

gLOSSARY
Only the player who owns the card can activate it to use its effects. He pays the cost in florins and resources to the bank. Any player can activate the card to use its effects. He pays the cost in florins, plus 1 , to the cards owner. If there are no florin costs, he still pays 1 to the owne r. Resource costs are paid to the bank. If the cards owner uses the card, he pays the normal cost in florins and resources to the bank. Spend the indicated number of action discs by placing them on the card. Pay the indicated cost in florins. Pay the cost as described on the card. Any mention of a minimal cost refers to the lowest cost in florins among the three costs shown in the cards corners. Pay the indicated cost in resources to the bank. Any resource cube. See text on the card for more information. Move the rebellion marker up or down by the number of icons shown. Move the surplus workers marker up or down by the number of icons shown. D uring harve st of the resource type shown, double the number of resource cubes received. Earns the player 1VP / medal at the end of the game. If the card is a wonder, it must be built first. See Card glossary for more information.

Icon

E ach player can use one evolution card

rogress cards with a construction icon are w o n d e r s . Wonder cards do not have activation arrows. They are not activated, they are built.

during each of his rounds. Pay the cards activa-

tion cost, engage it by rotating it clockwise one quarter of a turn, and apply its effects. Once a card is activated, it cannot be activated again in the same turn. It must first be disengaged during the disengagement phase.

D uring his round, instead of using a normal evolution card, the active player can build one of his wonders purchased in a previous turn. He pays the cards building cost, and applies its one-time
effect ; once built, a wonder cannot be built again.

Progress card

SAWMILL

T hen, he removes one of his active, non-engaged citizens from anywhere on the archipelago and places it on the wonder just built. Move the population marker down 1.

A built wonder earns the controlling player VP at the end

of the game, as indicated on the card.

N ote: Unbuilt wonders do not earn the player VP.

However, they still count as a progress card when scoring that criteria.

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to player B, the normal 1 cost and an additional 1 (see Icon glossary), and engaging his card. If he sends 3citizens to 3different wood resource icons on the archipelago, he will harvest 6wood resources instead of 3. Now player B can no longer use his Sawmill card until it is disengaged again in the next disengagement phase.

E xample: Player A wants to harvest wood. He uses player Bs Sawmill card to double his harvest, by paying 2

GREAT LIGHTHOUSE

Character card

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PIRATE
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Destroy an enemy ship present on the same region as one of your ships. The owner of the destroyed ship must give you a resource of his choice. If he has none, he must prove it by lifting his screen up.
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E xample: T he player must control at least one port to be able to build the Great Lighthouse. Spend 1iron resource, 2stone resources, and one action disc, and place one of the players active, non-engaged citizen on the card. Every player adds a ship in each region where he controls a port. T he Great Lighthouse earns its controller 1VP at the end of the game.

E xample: Player B wants to use his Pirate card.

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Only he can use it. He engages it, places 1 action disc on the card and applies its effects.

nd of game

he game can end in one of two ways:

Scoring objective cards Scoring the trend card

L ay the objective cards of all
moves past on the colony = 1VP players down side by side. Set aside the Separatist and Pacifist cards if present. The remaining cards contain objectives that concern all players. One card at a time, rank the players according to the criteria specified in the victory conditions zone of the card. The highest-ranking player in the specified criteria scores 3VP, the second best scores 2VP, the third 1VP.

W ar of independence:
T he rebellion marker
the population marker stability board(III). T he immediately.

Each player is also ranked according to the criteria specified on the trend card, earning between 2 and 4VP: Victory points (VP)

game ends

End-of-game condition reached:

A player reveals his objective card as soon
as the end-of-game condition on the card is achieved. The game ends at the end of the active players round.

For a list of all possible end-of-game conditions:

See List of objective cards at the end of this rulebook.

End-of-game condition

Who wins? If a war of independence is declared and no player has F F the Separatist objective card, all players have lost. If a war of independence is declared and one player F F has the Separatist objective card, he alone wins the game.
All other players have lost. If the game ends because an end-of-game condition F F is reached, all players have won the game. Players then count the victory points earned to determine the

Victory condition

Ranking criteria Player rank

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Game length

Ranking criteria

Benefactor
Victory points (VP)

T he Benefactor card is different

from other trend cards. It is divided into 5zones, one for each player color. When a player spends a resource cube or explorer token from behind his screen to help resolve a crisis, he takes 1 from the bank and places it on the Benefactor card in the zone corresponding to his color. He does the same when he builds a temple.

Players who have nothing that can match the criteria are
not ranked. If two players are tied on a given criteria, they both get the points corresponding to their ranking. T he earn VP if they place in the top 3 rankings.

grand

next players in the ranking are not shifted down: they take the next spot. Players can only

A t the end of the game, the player who has the most
florins in his zone of the Benefactor card scores 4VP, the second highest scores 3VP, and the third highest 2VP. Players can replace five 1 coins with a single 5 coin if needed during play.

winner.

N ote: T he Separatist and the Pacifist participate in

counting victory points and can thus win the game independently of their objective.

E xample: Yellow and Red are tied for first place, so they both earn 3VP. Blue takes second place and earns 2VP, and Green gets 1VP for third place.
Pacifist objective: If, at the end of the game, the difference between the population marker and the rebellion marker is achieved as described on the Pacifist card, the Pacifist player alone scores 3VP. For a list of all possible victory conditions:
See List of objective cards at the end of this rulebook.

Scoring evolution
CARDS
Some character cards, such as the King and the Pope, earn
the players VP at the end of the game, as shown by the medal on the card. All built wonders earn the players VP.

And the grand winner is

Each player adds up his VP scored. The player with the
most VP is declared the grand winner. In case of a tie, the player with the most money behind his screen among the tied players is declared the grand winner.

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T emple trend

Iron objective

Progress objective

T emple objective

Separatist objective

SCORING EXAMPLE

A 4-player game ends with two resources running out. One of the players has

the Separatist objective but was unable to trigger a war of independence, so he does not earn any VP from his card. It is shown in reduced size in the example. The objective cards of the other 3players are laid down side by side along with the trend card. Temple trend: Green controls 4temples, Blue controls 3temples, Red controls 2temples, and Yellow controls 1temple. Green ranks first scoring 4VP, Blue ranks second and scores 3VP, Red ranks third and scores 2VP. Yellow ranks fourth and does not earn any VP. Iron objective: Yellow reveals 6iron cubes from behind his screen, ranks first, and scores 3VP. Red ranks second with 4iron cubes and earns 2VP. Blue and Green have no iron and do not participate in the ranking. Progress objective: Blue has 3progress cards, Yellow also has 3, Red has 1. Blue and Y ellow are tied on this criteria and score 3VP each. Red ranks in second place and scores 2VP. Temple objective: Just as for the temple trend card, Green is first and scores 3VP (fewer VP than with the trend card), Blue is second and scores 2VP, Red is third and scores 1VP.

Wonders: Blue built the Great Lighthouse which earns him 1VP. Character cards: Green controls the King, which earns him 1VP. Grand winner: A tally of the score shows that Blue is first overall with 9VP, Green is second with 8VP, Red comes in third with 7VP, and Y ellow is fourth with 6VP. N ote: Since two cards involved temples (trend and objective), players scored VP twice
for this criteria.

Hint: To speed up and simplify the scoring, use units in the color of each player, taken from
the reserve in the storage trayor, if the reserve is empty, from units on the map not related to any of the objectivesand place them on each card on the line corresponding to their respective ranking, as shown in the example. It makes it easy to add up each players score across all the cards. As an alternative, flip over the evolution track and use the scoring track printed on the back with ship units to mark the scores.

2 -PLAYER RULEs

VARIANTs
T he following variants will provide different game
experiences. Most of them can be combined for even more diversity.

The game is played with the following modifications:

NO sECRETs BETWEEN
FRIENds
P layers do not draw objective
cards at the beginning of the game. Remove the Separatist and Pacifist cards from the deck. Reveal as many objective cards as there are players. Leave them visible for all players to see for the duration of the game. These cards show end-ofgame and victory conditions that are common to all players. In a way, they behave as trend cards. Do not use trend cards if using this variant.

Remove the Pacifist and Separatist cards from the F F objective deck. DEsERT sTART Each player draws and plays with 2 objective cards. Use the desert village region as the FF One player controls the warm colors (red and starting region. Players start the game F F yellow), the other controls the cool colors (green and without a ship. Each player starts with blue). If they run out of ships or citizens in their first color, they can start using the second color. However, players are still limited to 5action discs each, not 10.

In case of a tie while determining the order of F F play, there is not a second bet. The order of play stays

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unchanged.

2citizens on the desert region. Since the desert region has 5huts, start the surplus workers marker at 5. Play turn #0 as for the normal open sea start. After placing his first hexagon, each player moves one of his two citizens to the newly discovered region. The rest of the game is played normally.

More control
R eveal two trend cards at the
beginning of the game.

CHOOSE THE
trend
their 3hexagons, they discuss and collectively choose the trend card they want to use.

Benefactor
Use the Benefactor trend card, and
draw a second trend card from the deck. Remove the Separatist and Pacifist objective cards from the deck. Choose this variant to reduce the odds of a war of independence breaking out. Players still draw objective cards. This variant is recommended in a 2-player game.

At the beginning of turn #0, before the players receive

MORE SPICE
E ach player draws two objective cards at the beginning of the game, chooses one, and discards the other.

CARD gLOSSARY
E arn 2 from the bank and move
the rebellion marker down 1.

Amphitheater

Emigration
down 1 for each port in the archipelago.

M ove the surplus workers marker

zone appears on the 6th card now on top of the evolution deck, resolve it immediately.

Pirate
The destroyed ship goes back to the players
reserve and can be rebuilt at a later time.

Archbishop
down as determined by the total number of temples in the archipelago:

M ove the rebellion marker

Exporter / Merchant
T he price of each cube is determined by the row in which the cube is placed or from which it is taken, as in a regular transaction action.

0-2temples: move the marker down 1 3-4temples: move the marker down 2 5temples or more: move the marker down 3
Barbarian
The coin stays on the pillaged resources for
the rest of the game indicating that they can no longer be harvested. Note: Towns do not protect against the Barbarian.

O ption 1 : give an exotic fruit

rebellion marker resource to the bank and move the down 1, OR:

Gifts from the clergy

M ove the rebellion marker down 1 for each temple in the archipelago. The Pope earns its controller 1 VP at the end of the game.

Pope

O ption 2 : give an exotic fruit resource and a cattle

resource to the bank and move the rebellion marker down 2.

Cathedral
Y ou must control at least one
temple to be able to build the Cathedral. Spend 3stone resources and 2action discs. Move the rebellion marker down 1 for each temple in the archipelago. The Cathedral earns its controller 2VP at the end of the game.

marker at the end of the game.

2action discs. Move the rebellion up 2. The Pyramid earns its controller 2VP

S pend 5 stone resources and

Pyramid

Great Lighthouse
Y ou must control at least one
port to be able to build the Great Lighthouse. Spend 1iron resource, 2stone resources, and one action disc. Every player adds a ship in each region where he controls a port. The Great Lighthouse earns its controller 1VP at the end of the game.

Recruiter
T he workers recruitment cost is determined by the surplus workers board(IV), as in a regular recruitment action.

Spend 3iron resources and 1action

disc. Move the surplus workers marker down 1 . The Colossus earns its controller 1VP at the end of the game.

Colossus

T hief
If the targeted player only has one resource,
he places it in one hand and leaves the other hand empty. If he has none, he must lift up his screen to prove it.

Head-hunter / Researcher
I gnore any red-colored zones
on the 5 revealed cards. However, if a red-colored

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CREDITS
CHRISTOPHE Blinger JEAN-CHARLES MOUREY
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VINCENT BOULANGER

Game design Graphic vision Communication Graphic layout

Graphic layout Rules doctor English translation Manufacturing Website

Principal illustrator: Covers Progress illustrations Game components Icons Pencil sketches etc.

Occupation - Artist

ation Occup d artist

ke rwor Ove

ismal

CHRIS QUILLIAMS
1AD

S UTH SASKIA ASKIA RUTH

Tile artwork

Character artwork

German translator Fair promoter Dungeon T wister champion

Thank you!
W e are very grateful to all the playtesters who have
followed and contributed to the evolution of Archipelago since its inception. There are so many of you that it would be impossible to make a list here. Thank you all!

(Sherinford), Xavier Saissy, Eric Franklin, Olivier Grassini, Henri Bendelac, V esna Six, Christian Senksis.

Thank you to Mops, Phal, Guido from Tric Trac, as well

as all their readers, for their support and enthusiasm.

Thank you to Stefan Blessing from Ludofact for his efficiency and friendliness. Thank you to Lonidas V esperini from Ravage for his support.

Thank you to the artists: Vincent Boulanger, Ismal, and

Chris Quilliams, who gave life to the project with their talent and passion.

Thank you to Stphane Burgunder and his skiing / gaming

weeks in Valmeinier, where Archipelago was largely created, reworked, and tested with skiing gamers ;)

T hank you to our outstanding German translator and

Dungeon T wister champion : Saskia Puk Ruth.

T hank you to our diligent reviewers of the rules:

Cecilia Mourey, Alexandre Figuire, Fabrice Wiels

Thanks to you, the reader, who is still reading this But

youd better go play! Y ou have an archipelago to explore

For latest updates on Archipelago and other games:

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Table of contents
Game components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Game setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 urn #0: Discovering the archipelago 4 T How to win. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Archipelago independence . . . . . . . 5 Negotiating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Game turn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Phase 1: Disengagement. . . . . . . . 5 Phase 2: Order of Play. . . . . . . . . . 5 Phase 3: Population effects. . . . . . . 6 Phase 4: Balance of the archipelago 7 Domestic consumption crisis. . . . . . 7 Export consumption crisis . . . . . . . 7 Event. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Explorer token conversion . . . . . . . 8

2-Player rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Phase 5: Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Variants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Card glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Transaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Exploration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 List of objective cards. . . . . . . . . . . 19 0 1 Reproduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recruitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 ef initions Migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Meeple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Construction, Ships . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Markets, Ports, Temples, Towns.12 . . . . . . . . 6 Markers Phase 6: Purchase an evolution card 13 . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Citizen How to use evolution cards. . . . . . 14 Rebel vs. active citizens . . . 8 Icon glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Active player, Unit, Active unit. 9 Constructing the wonders. . . . . . . . 14 Engaged units. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 End of game. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Transaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Who wins?, Scoring, Grand winner 15 3-citizen limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Benefactor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Scoring example . . . . . . . . . . . 16

version: 2.0

End-of-game condition

Long game
objectives
total number of markets in play: 5 markets in a 2-player game, 6 markets in a 3-player game, etc.

total number of towns in play: 5towns in a 2-player game, 6towns in a 3-player game, etc.

total number of ports in play: 5 ports in a 2-player game, 6 ports in a 3-player game, etc.

Victory condition

number of explorer tokens behind each players screen

total number of character and progress cards in play: 12 cards in a 2-player game, 16 cards in a 3-player game, etc.

amount of money behind each players screen

total number of temples in play: 5 temples in a 2-player game, 6 temples in a 3-player game, etc.

any 3 resources run out at the bank number of ports controlled by each player
total number of ships in play: 6 ships in a 2-player game, 8 ships in a 3-player game, etc.

number of temples controlled by each player

Each player adds up the total number of fish resources in regions he controls with towns. surplus workers level higher than 21
Pacifist: If the difference between the population marker and the rebellion marker is higher than 10, the Pacifist alone scores 3VP.

Each player adds up the total number of exotic fruit resources in regions he controls with towns.

all 3 explorer token piles are exhausted number of character cards controlled by each player

bank is out of money

Separatist: If the rebellion marker moves past the population marker , the Separatist wins alone.

number of progress cards controlled by each player

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SHORT gAME
objectives
2 explorer token piles
exhausted amount of money behind each players screen
total number of towns in play: 3 towns in a 2-player game, 4 towns in a 3-player game, etc.

any 2 resources run out at the bank number of temples controlled by each player
total number of character cards in play: 4 characters in a 2-player game, 5 characters in a 3-player game, etc.

total number of progress cards in play: 4 cards in a 2-player game, 5 cards in a 3-player game, etc.

Victory condition

number of markets controlled by each player

total number of markets in play: 3 markets in a 2-player game, 4 markets in a 3-player game, etc.

total number of temples in play: 2 temples in a 2-player game, 3 temples in a 3-player game, etc.

number of character cards controlled by each player

total number of ports in play: 3 ports in a 2-player game, 4 ports in a 3-player game, etc.

number of explorer tokens behind each players screen

Population marker reaches or exceeds: 22 citizens in a 3-player game, etc. (not used in a 2-player game) Pacifist: If the difference between the population marker and the rebellion marker is higher than 15, the Pacifist alone scores 3VP. total number of character cards in play: 5 characters in a 2-player game, 8 characters in a 3-player game, etc.

number of iron resources behind each players screen all 3 explorer token piles exhausted
Separatist: If the rebellion marker moves past the population marker , the Separatist wins alone.

number of ports controlled by each player

number of progress cards controlled by each player

End-of-game condition

MEDIUM gAME
objectives
total number of markets in play: 4 markets in a 2-player game, 5 markets in a 3-player game, etc.

all 3 explorer token piles are exhausted Each player adds up the total number of iron resources in regions he controls with towns.
Population marker reaches or exceeds: 20 citizens in a 2-player game, 27 citizens in a 3-player game, etc.

Victory condition

number of fish resources behind each players screen

total number of towns in play: 4 towns in a 2-player game, 5 towns in a 3-player game, etc.

total number of temples in plays: 4 temples in a 2-player game, 5temples in a 3-player game, etc.

Each player adds up the total number of wood resources in regions he controls with towns.
total number of ports in play: 4 ports in a 2-player game, 5 ports in a 3-player game, etc.

total number of character and progress cards controlled by each player

total number of progress cards in play: 5 cards in a 2-player game, 8 cards in a 3-player game, etc.

number of explorer tokens behind each players screen

total number of ports and markets controlled by each player

any 3 resources run out at the bank

Pacifist: If the difference between the population marker and the rebellion marker is higher than 12, the Pacifist alone scores 3VP.

bank is out of money

Separatist: If the rebellion marker moves past the population marker , the Separatist wins alone.

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number of temples controlled by each player

amount of money behind each players screen