Assessments - 4, GPA: 3.8
(
)
)
|
Facilidade de uso
This should be done by an adult. Gold coins with the values 1, 5 and 10 AIM OF THE GAME —-—-—-—-=-—-—-—-— Players build houses and the central castle in the town of Arkadia. For constructing houses, they get seals of the four families. Whenever a house is completed, castle construction is continued. Subject to the family’s contribution to the castle construction, the value of the family’s seal changes. In the course of the game, each player can convert his seals into gold – he may decide when to do this himself. The player with the most gold wins the game. 20 Arkadia For 2 – 4 players aged 10 – 99 years Author: Rudiger Dorn · Illustrations: Michael Menzel, Walter Pepperle Design: DE Ravensburger, KniffDesign · Photos: Becker Studios Ravensburger Game® Nr. 26 433 9 WELCOME TO ARKADIA —-—-—-—-—-—-=-—-—-—-—-—-— In a remote land there lies a region with undulating hills and fertile valleys. Widely-travelled settlers have laid the foundation stone for the city of Arkadia. In addition to several other buildings they want to construct a magnificent castle on a hill. Four wealthy families – the cloth merchants, the spice merchants, the carpenters and the silversmiths – want to enhance prestige and augment their influence. For this reason, they compete for the major contribution to the castle’s construction. Players act as architects. The four families commission them to plan and realise the build-up of the town and the castle. Building lot for the castle Architect banners Building cards Buildings Seals Workers Seal tiles Castle piece Gold 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 PREPARATION —-—-—-—-—-=-—-—-—-—-— If you are playing for the first time, punch out the elements carefully. Stick one of the 28 square seal tiles in each castle piece as shown in the illustration. For the first game we recommend the set-up shown on page 7 of these rules. This will make it easier to learn the game. Set the game board up as described and then continue reading here. Now proceed as follows for the preparation of the game: • Place the game board in the centre of the table. • The building lot for the castle is placed in the grid so that no square with a tent camp (see illustration on the left) is covered. • Each player gets a screen (construction tent) as well as the 4 architect banners and 3 workers of their colour. The four banners are suspended on the top of the screen facing outwards. Place the 3 workers behind your screen. • The remaining workers (including the neutral beige ones) form the general pool that is placed next to the game board. • The castle pieces are distributed on the three pool areas at the border of the game board as follows: Place 12 pieces (3 red ones, 3 olive ones, 3 silver ones and 3 black ones) on the pool areas for the first and second floor of the castle respectively. Since there are only 8 squares, you stack up 2 pieces of the same colour on the squares at the border of the game board. The remaining 4 castle pieces are placed on the 4 coloured pool squares for the third floor. The 4 neutral pool squares for the third floor remain empty at the moment. They will be used in the course of the game. • Sort the buildings by their forms and place them next to the game board. • The seals and the gold are placed next to the game board, too. • Shuffle the building cards thoroughly. Each player gets 4 cards, face down. Place 3 additional cards face-up next to the game board. Form a stack with the remaining cards and place it on the table, face down. 21 The squares covered by the building must be vacant, that is HOW TO PLAY without any other building or worker on it. -—-—-—-—-=-—-—-—-— The youngest player starts. Then, play continues in a clockwise direction. A player’s turn is divided into two parts: 1. MUST The player chooses one of the following possibilities: A) Playing a building card and laying out the corresponding building or B) Introducing one or several workers 2. CAN Afterwards, the player may use one of their architect banners. The possibilities in detail: 1. MUST A) Laying out a building The player chooses a building card from his hand, takes the building shown on this card and places it on the game board so that it • is horizontally or vertically adjacent to any building already placed (the building lot for the castle is also considered as a building) and / or • is adjacent to any worker already placed (independent of its colour). Place a seal of the colour shown on your played building card on the building. The seal indicates that the building is still under construction and which family has placed the order. The played building card is placed on a discard pile and is thus out of game. Then the player adds a new card to their hand so that they have four cards again. He either chooses one of the three face-up cards or draws the top card from the face-down stack. If the player has chosen one of the three face-up cards, he immediately turns over a new card from the stack in order to replenish the face-up cards. Neutral workers:...