Rio Grande Games Clans 70 - Manual (Page 2)

Example: in a
just founded vil-
lage there are 9
huts: 4 black, 2
red, 1 green, 1
yellow and 1
blue. Since all 5
colors are pre-
sent, the single
green, yellow,
and blue huts
are eliminated
and removed
from the board. The size of the founded
village is also reduced to 6.
5. Epochs
The game is played over 5 epochs. In each of the first four epochs,
one type of territory is particularly favorable for the formation of vil-
lages while another type is extremely unfavorable, so that any village
completed there in that epoch is inevitably doomed. On the epoch
chart, the left side indicates the favorable type of territory, the right
side the unfavorable one.
In the 5th epoch every kind of territory is favorable.
When a village is founded in a favorable territory, the clans involved
score bonus points for the village. When a village is founded in an
unfavorable territory, it is destroyed and the clans involved score no
points!
The number of villages founded in each epoch corresponds to the
number of village chips in that epoch (4 in the 1st epoch, 3 in the
2nd and so on).
An epoch comes to an end when all of its village chips have been
taken. Then, the next epoch begins.
When player makes a move that causes 2 or more villages to be found-
ed at once, that player decides the order that the villages were found-
ed in. This can be particularly important when the founding cross
epoch boundaries. Also, if a player founds the 12th and last village
and more in the same move, he decides which is the 12th village (and
it scores with the 5 point bonus). Any other villages founded with the
12th village do not score.
The value of a village
When a village is founded, its basic value is the total number of huts
in it (after any strife). There are 3 possibilities:
1) The village is founded in the kind of territory that is neither favor-
able nor unfavorable: in this case the basic value of the village is the
total value.
2) The village is founded in the favorable kind of territory for that
epoch (left side on the reference table): in this case, the value of the
village is increased by the value of the bonus in that epoch (shown
on the epoch chart), which increases from epoch to epoch.
3) The village is founded in the unfavorable kind of territory for that
epoch (right side on the reference table): in this case the village is
doomed, its value decreases to zero and all its huts are removed from
the board.
After calculating the value of the village, all the scoring discs of the
colors present in that village are moved forward on the scoring track
by the value of the vil-
lage, regardless of the
number of huts of the
color. That is, having
more huts in a village,
does not give an advan-
tage.
There are 5 huts in village
1: 3 blue, 1 yellow, and 1
red. It is founded in the
1st epoch in the forest:
the favored type of territo-
ry. Thus, the village is
worth 6 points: 5 for the
huts and 1 bonus point.
The blue, red, and yellow
scoring discs are moved 6
spaces on the scoring
track.
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How to play
There are always 5 clans in play (regardless of the number of players),
each clan identified by a color: red, blue, green, yellow, and black.
Each player tries to score points for his secret clan, while keeping his
color secret from his opponents.
1. Start
Choose a starting player by lot. That player starts and then play con-
tinues in clockwise order.
2. Moves
There is only one kind of move in this game: the player, whose turn it
is, moves all the huts from a territory of his choice to a neighboring
territory, provided neither territory is empty. In this manner some ter-
ritories become vacant while villages are formed in others.
There is an important restriction: a player cannot move huts from a
territory that already contains 7 or more huts. A player may move huts
to such a territory. In the rare case of two neighboring territories
containing 7 or more huts each, a player may move the smaller group
to the larger one. If both territories contain the same number of huts,
the player may choose which group to move.
In this area, a
player can move
the group 1 huts
to only two possi-
ble territories, as
the other neigh-
boring territories
are empty. A
player may not
move the group 2
huts as they
number 7 and
cannot be moved.
Note. Two territories separated by a river are adjacent; two territories
separated by a lake are not adjacent.
3. Villages
When a player moves huts such that a territory with huts (or a single
hut) is completely surrounded by empty territories or the edge of the
board, a village is founded in that territory. When a village is founded,
the player who made the move takes the next village chip from the
epoch chart (the chips are first taken from the first epoch, and then
the second, and so on) and places it before him on the table (at the
end of the game he will score one point per chip). The player then
calculates the value of the village and the scoring discs are moved
accordingly on the scoring track.
The huts in area
1 become a
founded village
when the huts in
area 2 are
moved, either to
area 1 or to area
3. The huts in
area 2 may not
be moved to area
, as that terri-
tory is empty.
4. Strife
The different clans (represented by the different colored huts) general-
ly get along peacefully. However, when all five colors are present
when a village is founded, there is strife. In this case, when the vil-
lage is founded (but not before), all single huts of a color are elimi-
nated.
Preparation
• Distribute the 60 huts on the board, one per territory, as follows:
form 12 groups of 5 huts (each hut a different color), place each of
these groups in one of the regions; then place the 5 huts randomly, 1
each in the 5 territories of that region. This procedure ensures an
adequate dispersion of the five colors throughout the board.
• Shuffle the 5 colored clan cards and deal one face down to each player. Don’t let other players see what color you received. Return
the unused card (or cards, if fewer than 4 are playing), face down to
the box.
• Place the 12 village chips face up on the spaces of the epoch chart.
• Place the 5 small scoring discs behind the starting line of the scor-
ing track.
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2
1
1
2
3
In the 3rd epoch, the steppe is
the favored type of territory.
Therefore, the clans involved
earn 3 bonus points. In the 2nd epoch, the grassland
is the unfavored type of territo-
ry. The village’s value is 0!
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