Hansa Teutonica

Setup: Use the Hanseatic League map side for three or four to five players and place the 3 starting bonus markers. Cover ability tracks with 15 traders and 3 merchants, leaving each leftmost starting space open. The start player has 5 traders and 1 merchant in personal supply; each later player receives one more trader. Remaining pieces go to general stock.

Turns: Play clockwise, initially taking 2 actions per turn and developing up to 5. Repeat actions and choose their order freely, but finish each action before starting another. Using a bonus marker costs no action.

Income, placement and movement: Income transfers pieces from general stock to personal supply according to Bank. Placement puts one personal-supply piece on any empty route point. Movement relocates 2 to 5 of your own route pieces according to Book of Knowledge, using empty points without displacing opponents.

Displacement: Replace an opposing route piece with one from personal supply, additionally returning 1 piece to general stock for a trader or 2 for a merchant. The opponent immediately relocates the displaced piece plus the corresponding extra pieces onto adjacent routes; search farther only if directly adjacent routes are full. Shortages use personal supply and then route pieces as specified in the rules.

Creating a route: All connection points must contain your pieces, and creating it costs a separate action. First award 1 point to the current controller of each endpoint city, then take its bonus marker, then optionally choose one of establishing a trading post, developing the indicated ability or claiming special Coellen points.

Posts and abilities: Use a piece from the cleared route to occupy the leftmost empty post in an endpoint city, satisfying privilege color and piece shape; return the rest to general stock. Developing an ability instead returns all route pieces to stock and moves the leftmost covering piece from that ability to personal supply. The improved ability applies immediately.

Bonuses and special locations: Immediately draw a replacement after collecting a marker. At turn end, place it beside a route with no pieces or marker and at least one vacant endpoint post. A continuous chain of your posts from Stendal to Arnheim awards 7, 4 or 2 points in completion order. The Coellen-Warburg route can place a merchant on an empty special-points space allowed by privilege, scored at game end.

End: If anyone reaches 20 track points, a replacement bonus marker cannot be drawn, or the tenth city fills, finish the current route action and end immediately. Remaining actions and other players' turns are lost.

Final score: Add track points, 4 points per fully developed ability except City Keys, the collected-marker award, special Coellen points, 2 per controlled city, and your largest connected network's trading-post count multiplied by City Keys. City control compares post counts, then the rightmost post. Overall ties favor less-developed Actions, then more network points; remaining ties share victory.