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GAME SET-UP DIRECTIONS

1. Set up the bank

Sort the 35 ancient personage cards into five stacks - kings, scholars, generals, citizens and navigators. Arrange each stack numerically, This way a glance at the top card tells you how many cards remain in stack. Place the marble (white), iron (blue) and gold (yellow) chips, the 30 coins, and the 20 white temples next to the game board, for use as needed.

2. Distribute nation cards

First, decide which side of board to play on, and how many will play. For 2 players, 4 nations take part. For 3-6 players, there is one nation per player. The number of nations determines which nations take part.

For:

West (Roman Empire) side:

Greeks, Romans and Germanic tribes always take part

Phoenicians

are added for 2, 4, 5 or 6 nations

Carthaginians

are added for 5 or 6 nations

Persians

are added for 6 nations For:

East (orient) side:

Greeks, Persians and Arabs always take part

Phoenicians:

are added for 2, 4, 5 or 6 nations

Egyptians:

are added for 5 or 6 nations

Babylonians:

are added for 6 nations

For each nation, there is a card listing the nation‘s starting cities. The nation cards being used in the game are turned face-down, and offered to the players for them to draw. Or, players can pick from the face-up cards, starting with the youngest (or whatever) player, and going clockwise around the table.

3. Distribute game materials

At the start of the game, each nation receives the resources from the bank shown on its nation card. (1 blue iron, 2 white marble and 3 yellow gold units).

Also, each nation gets a different color of: 17 legions 17 galleys 25 city stones 6 game stones.

No nation can have any more than this number of legions, galleys, or city stones during the game.

4. Occupy three start cities

Each nation starts with one marble, one iron and one gold city. The three start cities are different for each number of participating nations, and are shown on the same line of the nation cards.

3 Line: start cities for 3 nations

4 Line: start cities for 4 nations

5 Line: start cities for 5 nations

6 Line: start cities for 6 nations

On game board, nations place city stones on their start cities.

ANTIKE for two players:

Each player manages two nations; in the Roman Empire region (West), one player manages the Romans and Phoenicians, the other the Germa- nic tribes and the Greeks. In the other theater (East), one manages the Persians and Phoe- nicians, the other the Greeks and Arabs. Each nation acts independently, with its supplies and ancient personage collection kept separate from the other‘s. The game ends as soon as one of the four nations has won 9 ancient personages.

Another variation for two players is for each play- er to manage one nation, but use two colors, and double the materials used. In this variation, the first player to gain 15 ancient personages wins the game. At the start of the game, players take turns picking out their three starting cities. The starting player can be determined by the flip of a coin.

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