

Blue Bankīlue tokens represent food and resources. Later, you may invent more advanced infantry units, as well as cavalry and artillery. The icon in the upper right corner means that units on the Warriors card are infantry. Your one warrior gives your civilization a strength rating of 1. The symbol at the bottom depicts each unit's strength. The 1 worker on the card represents 1 warrior unit. The Warriors technology allows you to build warriors, which are military units. They represent what your civilization knows and what it can build. We refer to them as cards, even though they are printed on the board. The six cards printed on your player board are your initial technologies. It does nothing useful now, but it is available to be put to work.

The seventh worker is in your worker pool. These workers represent one military unit, two farms, two mines, and one lab. Six of them begin the game on various cards. They represent the initial population of your civilization. The seven yellow tokens that are not in your yellow bank are called workers. Only rarely do you need to get new tokens from the box or return tokens to the box. Usually, you will move tokens within your player area. Once everyone has set up their player boards, return the remaining tokens to the box, or keep them somewhere else out of reach. Take 4 white tokens and 2 red tokens and put them next to the right edge of your player board.Take 25 yellow tokens and put them on the remaining squares on your player board: 18 in your yellow bank, 1 in your worker pool, and 6 on technologies.Take 16 blue tokens and put them on the squares of your blue bank.You will need a number of these in your play area: The transparent cubes are blue, yellow, white, and red tokens. Put your happiness rating marker on space 0 of the happiness indicator on your player board. The round markers are used to indicate four ratings of each player's civilization: culture production, science production, military strength, and happiness. The octagonal counters are used to track accumulated culture points and science points. This piece marks the current tactic being used by a civilization's military forces.

Before the first game, you may decorate them with the stickers provided. Around it, leave plenty of space into which your civilization can grow.Įach player takes a set of 7 wooden pieces in his or her color.
