Paladins of the West Kingdom

Play seven rounds. Draw three paladins, choose one for this round, return one to the top of your deck and one to the bottom. In turn order, reveal your paladin for its two workers and choose an available Tavern card for four more. Paladin attribute boosts and abilities last only this round.

Take one action per turn clockwise, placing the required workers and paying costs. Transparent spaces accept any colour, coloured spaces require matching workers, and purple criminals are wild. Passing clears your personal board and lets you keep at most three unused workers for next round; you cannot act again this round.

Develop costs two workers of any type and 4 Silver: move your leftmost Workshop onto a worker space of a right-side action, reducing its future worker requirement. Each action allows at most two Workshops. Pray costs one black Cleric and 2 Silver to clear one action area on your own board for reuse.

Hunt provides Provisions and Trade provides Silver. One worker gives one resource; two workers, with the second matching the required colour, give three. You cannot add the second worker on a later turn. With Recruit, one worker discards a Townsfolk card for an immediate reward; two workers including a red Fighter recruit it for an ongoing ability. Pay the displayed cost; the two leftmost cards permit taking a Debt instead of paying Silver.

Commission, Fortify, Garrison, Absolve and Convert can each be completed at most seven times, following the printed left-to-right progression. Attack has no such limit; Silver can cover a Strength shortfall at 1 Silver per two Strength. Convert requires the necessary Faith and grants the outsider’s end-game scoring ability.

Each criminal gained gives one Suspicion, resolved individually with its printed Tax reward. Taking the last Tax coin immediately triggers an Inquisition: resolve Townsfolk abilities first, then players tied for most Suspicion each gain a Debt and discard half their Suspicion rounded down, newest first. With no Suspicion, no Debts are issued; refill Tax afterward. Unpaid Debts score −3 each, paid Debts +1 each; destroyed Debts are removed.

After everyone passes in round seven, score King’s Orders, attribute tracks, development and major-action progress, Walls, Converts and Debts. Each combined set of three remaining Silver/Provisions scores 1 point. Highest total wins; ties favour more King’s Order points, then less Suspicion, then shared victory.

Solo uses the AI board and Scheme cards, with the human acting first each round. The AI starts with the round number plus three workers, ignores worker colours and Silver/Provision costs, but still obeys attribute requirements. Income advances its Resource Track, increasing its lowest attribute on each wraparound. It takes no paladin or Tavern workers and carries no workers between rounds. Follow the solo chapter for targeting, fallback actions and priorities.