Age of Might

Age of Faith

Age of Reason

Turn Indicator

Adventurer Pawns

Adventurer Pawns

Each player takes two Adventurer Pawns of the same color and places them on their corresponding locations on the Age of Might board.

Control Cubes

Each player takes 25 Control Cubes in the same color.

Ecus

Each player starts the game with 4 Ecus, using 1 Ecu coin pieces.

They can be kept face up or down in front of each player. Place the remaining Ecus in the 4th compartment in the game box.

There are thirty 1 Ecu coins, fifteen 5 Ecu coins, and fifteen 10 Ecu coins.

Construction Cards

Shuffle the 55 Construction cards are and placed them in a pile face down. The pile is made up of 18 Military Construction cards (orange), 18 Religious Construction cards (fuchsia) and 19 Civil Construction cards (blue).

All players draw four cards to form their starting hands. They are kept hidden.

GAME TURN

Decide who goes first in a random manner. Players take turns in a clockwise fashion.

The following phases are played by each player during his turn.

I. Exchange all or a part of his Construction Card hand.

II.The Action Phase:

1.Travel in time.

2.Use Construction Cards to construct, demolish, upgrade, populate or renovate a building. Note: certain buildings award an immediate Ecu bonus when they are constructed.

III. Fill Construction Card hand to 4 cards.

IV. Collect Earnings from domains (only on turns 4 and 7).

When a player finishes a game turn, the player to his left starts his turn.

When the turn comes back to the first player, that player moves the Turn Indicator pawn up a notch.

I- EXCHANGING ALL OR

A PART OF HIS HAND

During his turn, a player that is dissatisfied with his hand can discard it entirely or partially. Once all the chosen cards are discarded, he draws new Construction Cards until he has a hand of 4 cards.

This action costs 2 Ecus.

This may only be done once per turn.

SUMMING IT UP

Each player starts with :

2 Adventurer Pawns

25 Control Cubes

4 Ecus

4 Construction Cards.

II- ACTION PHASE

The following 2 actions (Traveling in Time and Using Construction Cards) are optional and can be done in any order, and several times.

1.TRAVELING IN TIME

By spending 1 Ecu, a player can use the Time Machine to travel in time. Each time it is used, the player moves one of his Adventurer Pawns to one of the other two game boards.

A player can use the Time Machine as many times as he wants, with either the same Adventurer or both.

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Rio Grande Games 222 manual Game Turn, II- Action Phase, Traveling in Time