Hadrian's Wall

Setup: Give each player both sheets, a Player Board and the 12 Player Cards with one matching general. Shuffle the Fate deck, prepare the shared worker/resource supply and agree on difficulty. Play six Years.

Begin a Year: Reveal a Fate Card and give everyone the workers/resources at its bottom. Each player draws two personal cards, secretly assigns one as a Path and one as a Prospect, then reveals both. Take Prospect benefits and annual income from Resource Production, Hotel, Workshop and Road.

Act simultaneously: Pay the specified workers/resources, mark legal boxes and immediately receive the covered rewards. Tracks generally fill left to right. Mark the current Year in numbered-use boxes and respect each activity’s annual limit.

Build the defences: A Fort box costs one Builder or Soldier; a Wall or Cippi box costs one Resource. Fort progress gates the adjoining Wall/Cippi sections and raises Infrastructure. A Medium or Large Granary is also required before entering the middle or right column of the relevant tracks.

Develop the city: Spend Civilians to advance the five Citizen Tracks. Their thresholds unlock buildings and activities; follow each printed cost, construction order, access requirement and yearly limit. Rewards gained during ordinary actions can fuel further actions that Year.

Trade and scout: After constructing the Market, spend a Resource for a neighbour’s Prospect good or a Fate-deck good. Duplicates occupy a Market space without further Renown. Scouting spends a Soldier to use your own or a neighbour’s Prospect pattern; rotate or reflect it, but never overlap marked boxes or extend beyond the map. Pay the neighbour when using their information.

Face the invasion: Once everyone stops, return unused workers/resources, then reveal Fate Cards according to Year and difficulty. Compare attack arrows with filled boxes in each matching Cohort. Temple Favour ignores any one revealed card; a Diplomat’s Favour only ignores a card for its assigned Cohort.

Resolve defence: Each unblocked attack gives one Disdain, capped at the current grey-flag value. Gain Valour equal to that value minus the Disdain received. Workers triggered by this Valour carry into the next Year; ordinary unused action supplies do not.

Score after the sixth invasion: Add the four Attribute totals and six Path-card scores, then apply the Disdain penalty table. Highest score wins; ties favour less remaining Disdain, then more Path-card points, then a shared victory.

One or two players: Shuffle an unused 12-card personal set as a Neutral Deck. Reveal two neutral Prospects each Year in solo, one with two players. Put the Resource or Soldier paid for a neutral good or pattern on its card; each token adds one Fate Card to that Year’s invasion. Base solo compares scores without an AI opponent.