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Annotated Games: Version 2.92, 4 playersThis game was played during the game testing of Politeia. The players pursued different paths towards the victory.
The action board is coded with black numbers for the number of neutral action discs with colored numbers if any of them is a player action disc. The player table shows talents, citizens, talents in stock, citizens removed and hand (resources and buildings). Actions are written with parantheses around actions not taken (i.e. the actions from which action discs are taken and any actions where action discs are dropped without any action taken).
Round 1
Athens starts with the Take Hellas action and takes 1 disc and 1 grain for Athens. She hopes to lay the foundation for a strong economy. Sparta prefers Trade to exchange her starting grain and pottery for 3 discs and get "cash" for future campaigns. Korinth places a disc in Massalia to get access to more resources while Thebes gets another wine for Massalia with the Take Megale Hellas action.
Round 2
Athens combines the Take Ionia and Battle actions by first battling the Persian in Miletos and then Take 3 discs for the 1st disc in Miletos and 2nd disc in Ephesos. Sparta wanted the Battle action but bides her time with the Take Hellas and Take Ionia actions, earning her 2 discs and 1 grain. Korinth takes advantage of the now vacated Trade action to first trade her 1 marble and 1 grain for 3 discs and then proceed with the Take Hellas action to get 1 disc and 1 grain for Korinth. Thebes follows in Korinth's tracks and trades 1 wine and 1 grain for 3 discs and then places 4 discs in Megale Hellas; Syracuse, Emporion, Neapolis and Cyrene.
Round 3 (after war)
Athens chooses income actions for this turn with Take Megale Hellas, Take Hellas and Trade. This earns her 1 iron for Emporion and 1 grain and 1 disc for Athens and another 3 discs traded for the iron and the grain. Sparta finally gets to battle with the actions Battle, Place Ionia and Take Ionia. She battles Ephesos and Salamis, removing 2 Persians to Hades. Then she places discs in Byzantion and Trapezos and takes 5 discs for; 2 discs each for the newly conquered cities and and 5th disc for her 2nd disc in Miletos. Korinth follows her example but focuses on Megale Hellas. The actions Take Ionia (1 disc for Trapezos) and Battle (against Emporion and Cyrene, removing 1 Athenian and 1 Spartan to Hades) triggers a war before her third Take Megale Hellas action. The Persians attack Korinth (Korinthian), Thebes (Theban), Ephesos (Spartan), Miletos (Athenian) and Salamis (Spartan). The Athenian and the Spartan in Hades return to the players' hands. The non-player Argonaut in Salamis moves to the top and removes the Persian there to Hades. After the war, Korinth proceeded to take 1 wine, 1 iron, 1 marble and 1 pottery for her four cities in Megale Hellas. Thebes then completed the turn by sacrificing 1 wine for 1 disc to Elysion. She also moved 1 Persian from Hades there to delay the next war.
Round 4
Athens consolidates with Take Hellas, Sacrifice and Grow. She grows 1 disc in Athens so that she may takes 1 grain and 2 discs. Then she sacrifices her iron to place 1 disc in Elysion and also move 1 Persian there. Sparta uses Intrigue and Place Hellas to spend her many discs. She intrigues in Salamis and Cyrene, removing the Argonaut and Korinthian there to Hades, and places in Argos, Korinth, Thebes and Athens. Korinth chooses to trade 1 grain and 1 disc for the missing oil in her set of five unique resources and then places discs Syracuse and Cyrene. Thebes prepares for the next round with Take Hellas, Trade and Take Megale Hellas. She has nothing to take in Hellas but wine, oil and marble in Megale Hellas, which she trades for 6 discs.
Round 5
Athens takes the route Sacrifice-Take Hellas, despite not having anything to sacrifice, only to take 1 grain and 2 discs. Sparta decides to Grow in Sparta and revolt in Korinth and Thebes, removing 2 Persians to Hades. She now dominates in Hellas. Korinth takes only the Sacrifice actions, sacrificing 4 of her 5 resources for 4 discs to Elysion. She also moves 2 Persians from Hades to Elysion and returns 2 Spartans from Hades to the supply to decrease the risk of war. Thebes battles Sparta in her starting city and remove her to Hades.
Round 6 (after war)
Athens goes for Trade, Take Ionia and Intrigue. First, she takes 1 disc. Then she trades 1 grain for another 1 disc. Finally, she intrigues to place discs in Emporion and Sparta, removing 1 Korinthian and 1 Spartan to Hades. Sparta then decides that the time is ripe for the game's second war. She chooses Take Hellas (taking 2 discs and 1 grain) and Place Megale Hellas (placing none) to be able to Revolt in Sparta, Trapezos, Byzantion, Miletos and Salamis against the 5 Persians there.
The war results in 4 Spartan being removed to Hades from Trapezos, Byzantion, Miletos and Salamis. The 5th disc to be removed is 1 Athenian in Athens. 7 Spartans and 1 Korinthian return from Hades to the hands. In addition, the Argonaut in Hades returns to the bottom of Salamis.
Round 6
Following the war, Korinth takes Hellas (nothing) and trades 1 oil for 2 discs. Thebes fills her treasure chest through all three Take actions (1 wine and 1 pottery from Megale Hellas), 1 disc and 1 grain from Hellas and another 1 disc from Ionia.
Round 7 (before the war)
Athens makes a big move with Sacrifice, Grow, Place Hellas and Place Ionia. She sacrifices none and instead focuses on expansion by placing in Trapezos, Salamis, Korinth and Thebes and growing in Sparta and Thebes. Sparta has only one action this turn and grows in Korinth. Korinth builds up a new resource base with Take Ionia, Battle, Take Megale Hellas and Trade. She takes 1 disc, battles the Persian in Emporion and takes iron, marble and wine. Finally, Thebes sacrifices wine and pottery, skips placing in Megale Hellas since she has so much there already and revolts in Byzantine, Thebes, Neapolis, Syracuse, Emporion and Massalia. Naturally, this triggers a war. Round 7 (after the war)
The Persians attack Korinth (removing one Spartan but leaving another at the top), Byzantion and Emporion (removing Thebans), Sparta (removing an Athenian but leaving another at the top) and Argos (removing an Argonaut). Following the war, one Argonaut returns to the bottom of Argos (because it's Persian) and another to the top of Syracuse. The Argonaut in Salamis moves to the top, removing the Persian there.
Round 8 (before the war)
Athens prepares for a big move with Battle, Take Megale Hellas and Take Ionia. She battles Byzantion and Miletos, removing 2 Persians to Hades and proceeds to take 6 discs and 1 iron. However, Sparta has prepared for a big move this turn with Revolt, Take Hellas and Sacrifice. Her revolts in Athens, Sparta, Argos and Cyrene removes 1 Athenian and 3 Persians to Hades and triggers a war.
Round 8 (after the war)
The Persians attack Korinth (removing a Spartan), Byzantion (removing an Athenian), Athens (removing a Spartan), Miletos (removing an Athenian) and Salamis (removing an Argonaut). 4 Spartans return from Hades to Sparta's hand and 1 Argonaut returns to the bottom of Salamis. The Argonaut in Argos moves to the top and removes the Spartan there to Hades. Sparta then proceeds to take 2 discs and 2 grain for her Hellas cities but has nothing to sacrifice. Korinth finds nothing better than taking 1 oil for her Megale Hellas city while Thebes makes a final effort with Revolt and Take Hellas. She revolts in Thebes and Cyrene (removing 1 Athenian and 1 Spartan to Hades) and takes 1 disc and 1 grain.
Round 9 (before the war)
Athens chooses Take Hellas, Trade, Place Megale Hellas and Revolt. First, she takes 2 grain. Then she trades her iron for 1 grain and 1 disc. Finally, she revolts Emporion, Athens, Korinth, Ephesos and Trapezos, removing 5 Persians to Hades and triggering a war before her Place action.
Round 9 (after the war)
The Persians attack Trapezos (removing an Athenian), Thebes (removing a Theban), Ephesos (removing an Athenian), Sparta (removing a Spartan) and Argos (removing an Argonaut). 6 Athenians, 2 Spartans and 2 Thebans return from Hades. One Argonaut returns to the bottom of Argos and another moves to the top of Salamis, removing the Persian there.
Round 9 (completed)
Athens ends her turn with placing in Massalia, Neapolis, Syracuse and Cyrene. Sparta also increases her presence on the map with Grow, Place Hellas and Place Ionia. She places in all Hellas and Ionia cities and spends her grain to grow in Athens. Korinth chooses Trade, Place Megale Hellas and Sacrifice. She trades nothing, places in Emporion, Massalia and Neapolis and sacrifices all her four resources to place 4 discs in Elysion and remove all 3 Persians from Hades. Thebes completes the 9th round with Trade, Take Megale Hellas and Battle. She takes marble, oil, pottery and wine, trades nothing and battles in Byzantion, Miletos and Thebes, removing 3 Persians to Hades.
Round 10
Athens realizes that the game will end any time and makes a final push with Take Hellas, Sacrifice, Grow and Intrigue. She takes 1 grain and 1 disc for Athens, sacrifices nothing, intrigues in Byzantion, removing a Theban to Hades, and finally pays 4 grain to grow in Syracuse, Salamis, Neapolis and Cyrene. This means that Athens passes Sparta with 43 VP vs 42 VP (8x3 + 6x2 + 7x1 = 43 vs 10x3 + 1x2 + 10x1 = 42). Sparta would like to prolong the game but without any discs she cannot increase her score so she must reluctantly take 2 discs for her Ionian and deplete her supply. (She cannot choose to take less.) The game ends with the following score:
It's a bitter end for Sparta, who had the most discs in Elysion, but also for Thebes, who had four resources to sacrifice for 12 VP and probably enough actions to get some more VP.
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