Die Siedler Kartenspiel Additional Rules: Tournament Game for New Players

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Additional Rules: Tournament Game for New Players

Game Materials: 60 cards, 1 victory flag

[These rules are a translation of a set found on the Die Siedler Website. They require an additional "Universität" (University) card. As described in this press release (in German), this can be gotten by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Kosmos-Verlag. Alternatively, pictures of the University cards, suitable for printing on a color printer and pasting on one of the spare cards from the Tournament Set, can be found here. - Michael Tsuk (tsuk@edgard.eng.pko.dec.com)]

The Tournament Game for New Players is played with one Basic Game and one Tournament Set according to the rules of the Basic Game. In this way, you become acquainted above all with the value of the new cards.

What is new and attractive about the "correct" tournament game is the possibility to compile one's own card selection and to compete against the selection of your opponent. However, you require another player who must also have a basic game and a tournament set to do this!

Preparation of the Tournament Game for New Players

• Select from the cards of the tournament set the City Upgrade "Universität" (University) and all event cards (blue frame).
• You now add one card "Überfall" (Raid) to the event cards of the Basic Game. The remaining event cards of the tournament set and the 2 cards "Inquisition" (yellow frame) are not required and are put away for the new-players' version.
• Prepare the game according to the rules of the basic game.
• The remaining cards of the tournament set are shuffled and dealt into three expansion piles of about the same size next to the expansion piles of the basic game.
• Then place the two "Universität" (University) cards face up next to these expansion piles.
• Before the first game, the victory flag is constructed. See page 2 of the Tournament Set rulebook.
• The victory flag is set at the value "2" and placed next to the "mill" and "knight" tokens.

Game Progress

With these few exceptions, the rules of the Basic Game are valid!

The rules changes

• With the exception of the Kundschafter (scout), action cards may only be played as soon as both players have at least 3 victory points.
• Buildings are safe from spies! Therefore, one can only steal action cards and units (knights and fleets) with a spy.
• One may remove buildings or units from the principality (to discard), in order to e.g. create place for more important cards. Removal costs nothing. The player must place the card which he or she wants to remove one the discard pile! It is not allowed to take a "discarded" card to the hand or to put it under one of the expansion piles. The only way to take such a card back into the hand is with the die roll "successful year" in connection with a displayed "palace" in one's own principality. A cleared building site may be used again in the same round, but this is not required.
• The playing of some cards in a principality is tied to a condition. One may construct a university, for example, only if one has built a library or a cloister before. The card with the condition (university) need not be removed if the prerequisite card (library) is removed from a principality.
• If one exchanges a card at the end of the turn, that card must be placed under the expansion pile from which one takes the replacement card.

The university

If a player has the required raw materials to build the university, he or she may build this card in a city. The player pays the raw materials, takes a university from the display pile and puts it above or below one of his or her cities as a normal city expansion.

Attention: each player may build only one university!

If a "Feuerteufel" (Firedevil) is played against the university, the player does not take the card into the hand but puts in back next to the expansion piles again.

That player may build the university again later if he or she has the required raw materials.

The victory flag

The victory flag is set at the beginning to the value "2" and put with the "knight" and "mill" tokens. As soon as one player has reached 3 victory points, he or she adjusts the victory flag and sets it up in front of him or herself. If that player achieves further victory points,the flag is set to the higher value.

Always, if a player achieves a higher victory point total than the current owner of the victory flag, that player receives the victory flag and adjusts the scoring number.

Therefore, you always have an overview with the victory flag who is the leading player and how many victory points this player has.

Game End

The Tournament Game ends as the Basic Game does, as soon as a player has reached 12 victory points.

Errata for the Tournament Game Rulebook!

1. It says on page 4 under "Rule Changes" in the fourth bulleted item that the player can take back a played card to his hand. This rule is wrong! The correct rule is that a remote card must be placed in the discard pile (see also the third bulleted item under the rule changes on this page).

2. On page 5 under the Character "The Barbar" 2 "Spion" cards and 3 "Feuerteufel" cards are listed. This is incorrect; the correction is 3"Spion" cards and 2 "Feuerteufel" cards.

3. On page 5 under the Character "The Weise" a "Troubadour" is listed. This should be the Knight "Walther der Sänger".

The Game Cabinet - editor@gamecabinet.com - Michael Tsuk