Trajan

Setup: each player distributes twelve markers of six colors with two per tray, then selects three different categories of Trajan tile for slots II, IV and VI. Configure time and forum for player count, prepare worker/military camps, commodities and bonus tiles, and select three starting commodity cards each.

Turn: empty one nonempty tray and sow all its markers clockwise, choosing color order. The last destination is the target tray; advance public time by the number picked up. First complete the adjacent Trajan tile if possible, then optionally take the target tray’s ordinary action.

Tile completion: the target tray must contain the required colors; it may contain others and the needed markers need not be newly sown. Gain the tile’s points and optionally its special effect. Most completed tiles leave play, while bread/helmet/flame demand tiles stay permanently on your mat. Completion does not consume the action markers.

Seaport and forum: the seaport draws two commodities then discards one, takes one exposed discard, displays one or two cards and replenishes them, or ships a required combination for points. A colored ship flips gray after use. A forum action takes an available tile, with extra-action and demand tiles having distinct purposes.

Military and Trajan actions: military recruits a token into camp, moves your leader to an adjacent province, or deploys a legionnaire from camp to the leader’s province if you do not already have one there. The Trajan action takes a new tile into the arch’s slot and moves the arch to the next empty slot; no empty slot means no further acquisition.

Construction and senate: recruit to the worker camp or move a worker from camp to a site, initially anywhere and later orthogonally adjacent to your own worker. A collected construction tile scores immediately and your first of its type grants its matching bonus action. Senate advances one space and scores it; reaching the top prevents further senate advances that quarter.

Extra actions: after an action, discard a matching extra-action tile to repeat it. A matching +2 marker instead allows two repetitions and stays in place. Use at most one extra-action tile per turn; first-of-type construction rewards follow their separate rule.

Rounds and quarters: reaching or crossing the time-track start ends the round after the current turn without resetting time. Reveal one demand in each of the first three rounds; the fourth ends the quarter. Meet all possible demands, spending forum tiles while each permanent Trajan demand tile can cover one demand per quarter. Missing one, two or three loses 4, 9 or 15 VP, possibly negative. Total senate votes determine bonus tiles and ranking, followed by the prescribed vote reset, cleanup and refills.

Final scoring: after quarter four, score 1 VP per commodity in hand, worker in worker camp and legionnaire in military camp. Sets of three/four same-icon construction tiles score 10/20 VP, plus bonus tiles. Demand bonuses require unused forum tiles rather than permanent Trajan tiles, and the 9/6 VP bonus does not multiply for extra matching copies. Tied totals favor the higher senate position.