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.
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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 pie- ces (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 pie- ces 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
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