La Città - quick rules

Preparation

• Buildings in 6 types
• Each player gets 4 Castles, 4 citizens, his 3 action cards face up before himself, 1 gold piece, 1 overview card.
• Shuffle the politics cards, openly display 7 cards.
• Shuffle the voice-of-the-people cards and put the deck on board.
• Determine the start player.
• Shuffle the landscape tiles and put openly on board.
• Clockwise all players place 1 Castle + 3 citizens, then counter-clockwise 1 Castle + 3 citizens, receiving food tokens as well per farm as indicated (large chips = 5 points)

Course of the Game

1. Start player revolves clockwise (not in 1st round)
2. Deal 4 of the voice-of-the-people cards face down with the 1st card face up
3. Each player receives 1 gold piece per mountain (for quarries).
4. In each city add 1 citizen to a max. 5 Citizens/city, 8 with market place, after that unlimited with well or bath house.
5. 5 Political rounds, each player plays a card or an action card (but only four cards for player with starvation in last round)
   • Carry out action card: take one of these actions, then flip over card
     • Take 2 gold pieces or
     • Establish new city (max. 1 per game round) : Castle on free field with at least a 3 Field interval. Receives 1 citizen out of other Castle + 2 citizens from pool, food tokens per agriculture as well as indicated, or
     • Erect building with 0-1 arches: may not connect to another city!, place there 1 surplus citizen from Castle, well/bath only at water, food token for farm per agriculture as well as indicated, extra citizen received for market place
   • Take politics card: carry out immediately, flip over, supplement. Take forbidden if execution not possible. Colored citizens designate rich harvest and bread & circuses. Rich harvest not in the 6th game year
6. Reveal voice-of-the-people cards: majority is the citizens' wish, if tied: city owner chooses for each city
7. Migration of citizens in player sequence
   • 1 citizens comes to your city from neighbors within 3 spaces if yours is better in the area of the citizens' wish and if you do not exceed your population limits (i.e. due to marketplace and water)
   • Dismantle empty buildings from outside in, give up food tokens for lost farms
8. Per player for each not colored citizen, a food token must be available, otherwise a citizen starves (dies)
9. Unpopulated buildings are removed from the board
10. Discard consumed politics cards (re-shuffle if exhausted), turn up action cards, colored citizens removed

End of the Game

• The game ends after 6 rounds (game years)
• Schedule:
  • 1 Point per citizen
  • 3 Bonus points per city with all 3 types of features.
  • -5 points for starvation in last game year
• the player with most points wins, if tied, the one with the gold majority

© Mario Boller-Olfert 2000