Clash of Cultures: Monumental Edition

The standard game supports 2 to 4 players and lasts 6 Ages. Each Age has 3 rounds; in each round every player takes one clockwise turn and must perform 3 main actions. An Age ends with a Status Phase.

Start with Farming and Mining, 2 Food and zero other resources, a happy city and a Settler on your starting Plains, plus 1 Action card and 1 Objective card. Regular Regions begin facedown and are revealed through exploration.

An Advance action normally costs 2 Food; Ideas and Gold substitute one for one. Acquire a category's top advance before its other advances. Government categories have prerequisites and only one may be held at a time. Every third advance taken through the Event tracker triggers an Event, then replenishes its 3 cubes.

To found a city, remove a Settler and replace it with a Settlement on non-Barren land without a city, enemy units, or Exhausted Land marker. Maximum city size is 5, and growth cannot raise a city above your current number of cities.

Activate exactly one city to collect, recruit, or construct. Additional activations of that city during the same turn lower its mood one step after resolution. Happy cities collect or recruit their size plus 1; angry cities get only 1 and cannot construct buildings.

Collect from the city space and adjacent spaces according to terrain, with each space supplying 1 resource per activation. Enemy units, Exhausted Land, and other cities block collection. Ordinary resources are capped at 7; Food is capped at 2 until Storage.

Constructing a building normally costs 1 Food, 1 Ore, and 1 Wood, requires its advance, and permits only one of each building type per city. Increase Happiness can affect several cities; each step costs Mood tokens equal to that city's size.

A Move action moves up to 3 units/groups, each unit once per action. Army movement requires Tactics; land spaces hold at most 4 Army units. Entering enemy units or cities triggers immediate battle: in land battles, roll for participating Army units, apply Clash abilities, and divide modified Combat Value by 5, rounding down for hits, with simultaneous casualties. Units that fought or entered Mountains cannot move again that turn; Forest entry prevents further movement into battle.

Influence Culture targets a city with a building within a range equal to the originating city's size. A roll of 5 or 6 succeeds; each Culture token can add 1 range or 1 to the roll. Replacing a building with the same type in your color changes its scoring, not city control. Only one success is allowed per turn.

The Status Phase resolves objectives, a free advance, new Action and Objective cards, optional razing of one size-1 city for 1 Gold, optional government change for 1 Culture and 1 Mood, then first-player selection. After Age 6, or if someone enters this phase without cities, stop after objectives and score: 1 per Settlement/building, half per advance, 2 per objective, normally 4 per Wonder (split 2 each between its original builder and current owner when captured; specific Wonders may differ), plus Event and defeated-Leader points. Break ties by comparing these scoring categories in order, then share victory if still tied, subject to special Wonder text.