Concordia Venus

Choose a mode: individuals use column-marked cards for 2–5 players; teams use double-circle cards for four or six players, with partners opposite each other. Prepare the market for the player count. Each player has 15 houses, a 12-space storehouse, and six colonists. Individuals start with eight cards; team partners remove the specified card for their position and start with six each.

Play and recover cards: clockwise, play one personality and execute its actions, leaving it in your discard pile. Tribune retrieves all your played cards, including itself, grants one coin per card beyond three, and optionally builds one colonist in the capital for one food and one tool.

Architect moves before building: distribute movement steps equal to your colonists on the board along their land or sea routes; no colonist may finish on an occupied line. Then build in cities adjacent to your colonists, at most one of your houses per city and none in the capital. Pay the required goods and coins; multiply the coin price by the total houses present after construction.

Prefect and production: choose a province whose marker shows goods, flip it, take its bonus, and produce one city good for every house there, including opponents’ houses. Alternatively collect all visible coins and reset the markers. Praefectus Magnus must double its holder’s province bonus and then pass right; it does not double city production or activate for the cash option.

Trade and capacity: Mercator grants three coins, or five on a purchased card, then trades up to two types of goods at fixed prices. Each storehouse space holds one good or colonist; existing goods cannot be discarded to make room. Players cannot trade goods with each other. Specialists produce one good in each of your houses of the specified type.

Acquire and copy cards: in individual play, Senator buys up to two cards for their printed and display costs; Consul buys one without display costs. Purchases enter your hand. Diplomat copies a legal personality atop an opponent’s discard pile. Individual-only Magister repeats your previous personality except Senator. Team Praetor allows each partner to buy at most one card, replenishing only after both finish.

Team turns: the card player acts first, then their partner uses the same actions, normally without playing a card. Double-choice cards require the partner to use the other personality. Goods and cards stay separate, but needed coins may be taken from the partner. Legatus lets you inspect your partner’s hand and request a card that both use. Proconsul buys one non-Proconsul card, then the partner alone uses a non-Legatus card.

End and score the gods: emptying the market or building your fifteenth house earns the seven-point Concordia card. Finish the triggering team’s turn, then every other team takes one last turn; individually, each other player takes one. Gather hand and discarded cards and score each god for houses, provinces, production types, colonists, and other criteria. Each individual Venus card scores two per province with at least two of your houses; team Venus scores one per province containing houses of both partners. Add partners’ scores; highest wins, with ties decided by possession of Praefectus Magnus or who would receive it next.