Orléans

Play 18 rounds, each with hourglass reveal, census, followers, planning, actions, event resolution and passing the starting-player token. In the 2023 setup, stack C events below B below A, with the starting Pilgrimage on top; Pilgrimage prevents recruiting monks during actions.

Draw no more than your knight-track allowance or available market spaces; the initial allowance is four. Unused market followers remain there. Fill a place across multiple rounds if necessary. Resolved followers return to the bag, unused combinations stay, and passing ends your actions for that round.

Recruit followers into your bag and receive the corresponding track reward: farmers provide goods, boatmen coins, craftsmen technology, traders places, scholars development and knights drawing capacity. Monks replace other professions, but other professions and technology cannot replace monks.

Place newly acquired technology only after you pass. Your first tile must replace a farmer; each place may hold at most one, with none on a single-profession place or monk space. Technology cannot move after placement and remains after actions.

Ship and wagon move to an adjacent town along the matching connection and may collect one good en route; empty routes remain usable. The Guildhall builds a station in your merchant’s town, normally only one station per town; Orléans allows one per player.

Town Hall sends one or two eligible followers to matching empty spaces on the base Beneficial Deeds board for rewards. Completing a deed earns its citizen. Exact professions are required, with no monk substitution; marked starting followers cannot be sent, and donated followers stay on the board.

2023 events use A/B/C strength: Harvest lets you return one/two/three food items or pay five coins for each food item you do not return; Income and Trading Day multiply development status and built stations respectively by three/two/one; Taxes charge one coin per one/two/three goods. Plague randomly removes one neutral follower from the bag; drawing a marked starter loses nothing and tracks never retreat.

After round 18, the sole leader in built stations receives the remaining citizen; a tie awards none. Coins score one each; grain/cheese/wine/wool/brocade score one/two/three/four/five. Add (built stations + citizens) × development status. Highest score wins, then furthest along the development track; a remaining tie is shared.