Clans of Caledonia

Rounds and clans: Play five rounds of preparation, actions, production, and scoring, skipping preparation in round one. Take one action per turn until everyone passes. Passing gives money and sets next round’s order, and ends your actions for this round. Clan abilities modify setup, construction, trading, or production under their individual rules.

Market: Buy or sell just one type of good per action, assigning one available merchant per unit. Settle the whole trade at the current unit price, then adjust the price by the number traded: buying raises it and selling lowers it. Merchants return during next round’s preparation. You cannot have merchants on both sides of the same good.

Expansion and neighbors: Pay the unit and land costs to deploy one unit to an empty neighboring space or one within shipping reach, observing grassland, forest, and mountain restrictions. Neighboring spaces share an edge without an intervening river; shipping never jumps over land. Beside an opponent’s producer, merchants can buy its goods at a discount of £2 per basic good or £3 per processed good, up to three of each type per turn, or four with two players.

Upgrades and ports: A shipping step costs £4, a technology upgrade costs £10 and adds £2 income per corresponding worker, and hiring a merchant costs £4. A neighboring port or one within shipping reach can be used before or after your main action, once per player per port per game. Port 7’s unit exchange must respect terrain and can grant building and neighborhood bonuses when eligible.

Contracts and delivery: Normally hold one unfinished contract, with Buchanan as an exception, and never voluntarily discard it. Taking one uses the round’s cost, except round one gives £5 instead. Deliver all goods on its left side to collect the imports and immediate bonuses on its right, then put the completed contract beside your export box. Meat requires slaughtering animals on the map during delivery and returning them to your board, ending their production.

Production and round scoring: Collect worker income, produce wool, milk, and grain, then optionally process milk into cheese or grain into bread or whisky. Newly produced raw goods can be processed immediately. Each field produces two grain, while each other basic producer produces one good. Round five still includes production and glory from its public scoring tile.

Stock and import scoring: After round five, score one point per glory, basic good, and imported hop, two per processed good, and one per £10. Cotton, tobacco, and sugar cane are worth three to five points each according to total imports by all players; score the quantities on your own completed contracts.

Rankings and ties: With three or four players, completed-contract ranks award 12/6 points and shipping-connected settlement ranks award 18/12/6. With two players, only first place scores, for eight and twelve respectively. Tied ranks share the points for the occupied places, rounding down. Remaining money breaks a final-score tie.