Annotated Games: 4 players, version 0.8

This game was played during the game testing of Suecia. The players tried different strategies to assess how balanced they were.

Focus on many early actions to get basic resources.
Focus on building an own value chain from farm via shop to ship and mission.
Focus on building a shop network.
Focus on tactical opportunities.

Cards are annotated with (N)obility, (C)lergy, (B)urgher, (P)easant. Resources/buildings are annotated by their colors (blue=ore, red=wood, yellow=timber, green=textile, orange=timber, purple=iron, white=economy, gray=religion, black=military) and player numbers. Buildings are annotated with the player number.

Starting position

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Player 1:	NP CN BC PB BN PC	●●●
Player 2:	NP CN BC PB BN PC	●●●
Player 3:	NP CN BC PB PC	●●●	BN
Player 4:	NP CN BC PB BN	●●●	PC

Round 1

Player 1 starts with a nobility card to place a province and player 2 immediately plays another nobility card to place a castle there. Player 3 plays a peasant card to place a crop farm and player 4 plays a burgher card to place a crop shop in the city. Both player 2 and player 3 pays 1 crop to player 1's future resources.

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Player 1:	NP BC PB BN PC	●●(●●)	NC
Player 2:	CN BC PB BN PC	●●	NP
Player 3:	NP CN BC PB	●●	BN	PC
Player 4:	NP CN BC PB	●●	PC	BN

Round 2

Player 1 plays a peasant card to place a wood farm (for 1 wood to her own future resources). Player 2 plays a burgher card to place a wood shop in the city for 1 wood. Player 3 plays a burgher card on her peasant card. With the peasant action, she sells 2 crop to the city (earning player 2 1 crop for her castle). 1 crop goes to player 4's shop and 1 crop goes to the Royal castle. With the burgher action, she uses 1 of the received crops and 1 previously owned wood to buy a timber ship. Player 4 plays a peasant card on her peasant card and chooses to use both her actions as peasant actions. First, she places a wood fram (for 1 wood to player 1's future resources), and second, she sells 2 crop to the city (earning player 2 1 wood for her castle). 1 wood goes to player 2's shop and 1 wood goes to the Royal castle.

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Player 1:	NP BC BN PC	●●●(●●)	NC	PB
Player 2:	CN PB BN PC	●(●●)	NP	BC
Player 3:	NP CN PB	●●	BN	PC BC	Timber Ship
Player 4:	CN BC PB	●●●	PC PN	BN

Round 3

Player 1 plays a clergy card on her peasant card to build an ore farm and church for 1 ore and 1 wood (paid to her own future resources). Player 2 plays a clergy card on her burgher card to first build an ore shop for 1 ore and then take 1 ore just in case. Player 3 plays a noble card on her burgher card to let her textile ship buy crop and wood from player 4's and player 2's shops and then place a seal on a textile province. Player 4 plays a peasant card on her burgher card to buy an iron ship for 1 ore and 1 wood and then sell 2 wood to the city (of which 1 is exchanged for 1 ore by using player 1's church). This earns player 2 1 future wood for the castle and player 1 1 future ore for the church.

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Player 1:	NP BN PC	●●●(●●●)	NC	PB CB
Player 2:	CN PB PC	●●●●●●(●)	NP	BC CN
Player 3:	NP PB	●●	BN NC	PC BC	Timber Ship
Player 4:	CN BC	●●●●	PC PN	BN PB	Iron Ship

Round 4

Player 1 had hoped to be able to play on her clergy card and take an advanced resource but there are none in play. Nevertheless, she plays a peasant card on it to first take 1 wood and then merge her wood farm with player 4's wood farm for 1 wood. Player 2 plays a burgher card on a clergy card but instead builds a church for 1 crop (earning player 1 1 crop to her future resources) and buys a textile ship for 1 wood and 1 crop.

Player 3 plays a peasant card on her burgher card to first buy 1 wood (from player 2's shop) and 1 crop (from the Royal Castle) to get 1 timber and then sell 2 crop from her farm, of which 1 is changed to a wood (earning player 2 1 crop and 1 wood to her future resources). Player 4, deprived of all her farms, decides to exchange all her 6 basic resources for 1 iron and use it to buy an iron farm. Then she sends her iron ship to buy 1 ore from player 2's shop and 1 wood from the Royal Castle.

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Player 1:	BN PC	●●●●●(●)	NC	PB CB PN
Player 2:	CN PC	●●●●●(●●●)	NP	BC CN BP	Textile ship
Player 3:	PB	●●●●●(●)	BN NC	PC BC PN	Timber Ship
Player 4:	CN	●	PC PN	BN PB BC	Iron ship

The game was halted to test ideas for quicker growth of infrastructure groups.

Annotated Games: 4 players, version 0.8

Starting position

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

P&P (PDF, A4)

P&P (PDF, US Letter)

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