B) Introducing workers
The player chooses any building on the game board. He pla- ces any number of his own and / or neutral workers from their pool behind the screen on vacant squares that are hori- zontally or vertically adjacent to this building. Important: All workers that a player introduces during their turn have to touch one and the same building. Once the workers are pla- ced on the board, they remain on the square on which they have been introduced for the whole game. They are never moved or removed.
Note: If a player places a worker on a tent camp, he does not get any neutral worker.
An example for introducing a worker is shown at the bottom on the right.
A building is completed:
If a building is completely enclosed because of an action (eit- her “A: Laying out a building” or “B: Introducing workers”), it is completed. Consequently the ➔ payout and the
➔continuation of the castle construction are triggered.
When placing a castle piece, players have to observe the fol- lowing rules:
At first, the castle’s first floor has to be constructed, before beginning the second floor. The player chooses any castle piece from the building material for the first floor and places it on any still vacant square of the building lot.
As soon as all 10 squares of the lowest floor are occupied in this way, the remaining 2 pieces of the pool for the first floor are added to the pool for the third floor (and placed on two of the four vacant neutral squares on the border of the game board). Afterwards, the second floor is constructed in the same way with the pieces of the second pool. As soon as the second floor is completed, the remaining 2 pieces are again added to the pool for the third floor.
Attention: When the second floor is completed, the end of the game has begun (see page 6).
Example for introducing workers and a following payout:
A building is completely enclosed if all horizontally and vertically adjacent squares are occupied (either by workers, by other buildings or by the border of the game board).
➔Payout: All players who have introduced workers next to this building receive seals. For each of his own workers who is (horizontally or vertically) adjacent to the enclosed buil- ding, the respective player gets a seal of the colour of the seal lying on the building. The player whose turn it is gets the seal of the completed building in addition (as he has trigge- red the payout). Players place their seals behind their screen.
Important: You do not get any seals for neutral workers!
Note: It is possible for several buildings to be completed at the same time. In this case, each building is evaluated separately, so that one wor- ker can earn several seals. Besides, it can happen that a building is pla- ced so that it is immediately enclosed itself. In this case a normal payout is triggered. If there are not enough normal seals, players can exchange 5 seals for a bigger seal with the value 5.
➔Continuation of castle construction: Afterwards, the player whose turn it is places one castle piece per newly enclosed building on the building lot for the castle.
Note: The castle indicates the value of the family’s seals. The building lot consists of 10 squares that show 2 seals of each family. At the beginning of the game, each seal is thus worth 2 pieces of gold. In the course of the game, castle pieces are placed on the 10 squares of the building lot – next to each other and on top of each other. For this reason, the value of the individual seals changes, since it depends on the number of family seals that is actually visible on the 10 squares of the castle when looking at the castle from a
Violet chooses possibility 1 B) “Introducing workers”. He selects the trade centre. Next to this trade centre, he may now place any number of workers of his pool. He introduces two of his own wor- kers (violet) and a neutral one. So both the trade centre and the monastery are completely enclosed.
The payout is triggered:
Orange receives a red seal from the general pool, since one of his workers participated in constructing the trade centre. Violet has two workers next to the trade centre and thus gets two red seals from the general pool. In addition, he receives the red seal lying on the trade centre.
Yellow and Green both get two olive seals from the general pool for the monastery’s construction. Violet receives an olive seal from the general pool and again the seal that lies on the monastery.
Then Violet may place any two castle pieces from the pool for the first floor on the building lot for the castle. He chooses the two black pieces since he has already collected many black seals in previous rounds.
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