Imperial Settlers: Amazons — Rules Manual

CONTENTS
110 cards (63x88mm), including:
* 60 Amazon cards (AMA001-AMA060),
* 10 Barbarian cards (BAR081-BAR090),
* 10 Egyptian cards (EGY081-EGY090),
* 10 Japanese cards (JAP081-JAP090),
* 10 Roman cards (ROM081-ROM090),
* 10 Common Cards (COM151-COM160),
1 Faction Board
1 Faction Marker
When building your Faction deck (see below), treat some of the Amazon cards as regular (basic) Faction cards, and treat the rest as if they were released with the previous expansions to the base game. The affiliation information printed at the bottom of each card, along its right edge, informs you how to treat a given card:
: a regular Amazon card
: treat it as if it were from the “Why Can’t We Be Friends” expansion
: treat it as if it were from the “3 Is a Magic Number” expansion
: treat it as if it were from the “We Didn’t Start the Fire” expansion
The cards marked , , and are equivalent to the cards the other Factions received in the previous expansions.
The Amazon expansion introduces
* a new type of Deal: Foundation
* a new feature on the Amazons Faction Board
FORMATS OF PLAY
The following two formats describe the rules for deck construction.
OPEN
You may mix any Common and Faction cards from any expansions with the corresponding cards from the Imperial Settlers base game. Have fun, but remember that a deck constructed this way may not ensure balanced play.
STANDARD
This is the only format allowed in tournaments.
Common cards come only from the base game. To build your Faction deck, you may mix the Faction cards from the Imperial Settlers base game with the Faction cards from exactly 1 expansion.
Building a Faction deck
For each card from the chosen expansion that you add, you need to remove from your deck a card from the base game. Your Faction deck must consist of exactly 30 cards, 3 of which come in 3 copies (a total of 9), 6 as 2 copies (a total of 12), and the remaining 9 as single cards. Icons found in the bottom right corner of a card’s artwork tell you how many copies of this card you need to have in your deck.
1 copy :
2 copies:
3 copies:
For example, if you wish to use an expansion card with: you must use all 3 copies of this card, and you need to remove from your deck one set of 3 copies of a base game card.
THE AMAZONS
This expansion introduces a new Faction–the Amazons, complete with their own set of Faction components: 1 Faction Board, 1 Faction Marker, and Faction cards. The Amazons should be added to the list of factions from which the players can choose to play.
NEW RULES
This expansion introduces a new type of Deal field – Foundation, and a new feature on the Amazons Faction Board. The details are described below.
DEAL FIELD – FOUNDATION
When you receive a Foundation, immediately draw a card from the top of the Common deck and place it in your Empire face down. You don’t receive 1 Wood (because you are not turning a Location into a Foundation). Foundation may be used to build new Locations or to be spent by new action cards. When a player decides to use a Foundation, he simply discards the Foundation card.
Note! This is not a stand-alone expansion. You need the Imperial Settlers base game in order to play.

---

NEW FEATURE OF AMAZONS FACTION
Amazons are a special Faction – when they use a Faction as
a build cost for another, instead of discarding it, they reshuffle
that Faction back into their deck.
EXAMPLE 1: Marc plays as the Amazons and he
wants to build Faction card BOUNTIES. He
spends 1 and MYSTICAL FOREST – one
R I W K H / R F D W L R Q V E X L O W L Q K L V ( P S L U H + H V K X Z H V
MYSTICAL FOREST back into his Faction
deck, and then he receives the Building bonus
from the Location BOUNTIES.
NOTE! , I D Q \ ) D F W L R Q G H F N U X Q V R X W R I F D U G V G R Q 1 W U H V K X Z H F D U G V I U R P W K H
discard pile to make new one. You no longer can draw Faction cards.
RULES INTRODUCED IN PREVIOUS EXPANSIONS
Some of the cards in this expansion make use of the rules
introduced in previous expansions.
OPEN PRODUCTION
The Open production Locations were introduced in the “Why Can’t
We Be Friends” expansion.
Check the expansion manual for details: http://bit.ly/2bFisvH
SETS
Sets were introduced in the “3 Is a Magic
Number” expansion.
Check the expansion manual for
details: http://bit.ly/2bviplC
CONQUEST
Conquest was introduced in the “We Didn’t Start the Fire” expansion.
Check the expansion manual for
details: https://bit.ly/2xeWnQS

CLARIFICATIONS
If there are 2 on a Pay to build field, you may spend a Common
Location, Faction Location, and Foundations in any combination.
If any card effect says that you receive a Foundation, draw the top
card from the Common deck and put it in your Empire face down.
You don’t receive 1 Wood (Sanctuary and Kohorta give stone/wood,
but they’re exceptions).
If an action requires discarding a Foundation, you cannot discard
a Location built in your Empire – you can only discard a Foundation.
If a card effect lets you take a card from your discard pile, it always
means a card from you Faction discard pile. You may take any card
from that discard pile.
If a card lets you draw a few cards from the deck, and you don’t
have enough, take all of the cards that are left. Execute its effect in
text order.
EXAMPLE 2: Robert built the Location
TRAINING YARD. He draws one Faction
card (because it’s the last card left in his
faction deck). The text of the card first
indicates to discard one and then reshuffle the
R W K H U 6 R 5 D I D é G L V F D U G V W K H R Q H F D U G K H G U H Z
and receives 1.

EXAMPLE 3: Luke built the Location
BOUNTIES. He draws two Faction
cards (because they’re the last
cards in his Faction deck). The
text of the card says that he
may discard any number of
them to gain 2 for each
discarded. He decides to discard
only one card. He receives 2
and puts the other card back into his Faction deck (which now
contains only one card).
While playing with the “We Didn’t Start the Fire” expansion,
Amazons may use Conquered enemy Locations as the
cost to build another Faction location. In that case, they
shuffle the enemy Location back into their Faction deck.

---

Researchers – draw cards until you draw a grey card – put that card into your hand and reshuffle the others back into their deck.
Stolen Projects – don’t treat that action as Raze.
Harmonia's Fountain, Greek Legacy, Greek Jewellery – put it in the Production row.
Cursed Trees and Captured Muses – if on top of the Egyptian deck there is a Common card, you must take the next card (if there are multiple Commons then draw until you can take a Faction card) then reshuffle all the cards you didn't take back into the deck.
Floating Treasure – If choosing a Deal from a Trade Routes Location, shuffle the Japanese card under the opponents Faction Location back into your deck.
Trade on Crossroads – If the discarded card has more than one color, choose only one to gain Goods from. (ex. discard Trade colony to choose grey and gain 3 stones).
Rear Guard – with no color has a grass in left bottom corner. for ex. it's Ruins from Basic game or Abandoned Armory from this expansion.
GAME DESIGN: Ignacy Trzewiczek
EXPANSION DESIGN: Joanna Kijanka
FACTION IDEA: Ignacy Trzewiczek
ARTWORK: Roman Kucharski, Anastasia Meylus
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Aga Jakimiec, Rafał Szyma
GAME MANUAL: Joanna Kijanka EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Grzegorz Polewka
Dear Customer, our games are assembled with the greatest care. However, if your copy lacks anything we apologize for it. Please, let us know: portal@portalgames.pl.
© 2018 PORTAL GAMES Sp. z. o.o. ul. Św. Urbana 15, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland portalgames.pl, portal@portalgames.pl
Imperial Settlers & Portal Games (publisher). All rights reserved. Reproduction of any part of this work by any means without the written permission of the publisher is expressly forbidden.
Many thanks to: Janek, Gloomy, Jagódka, Basia, Luke, Zara, Merry, and Zee.

---

The award-winning Imperial Settlers (Golden Geek Game of the Year and Strategy of the Year nominee) has been released in 13 countries, becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Four unique faction decks, beautifully sculpted custom wooden pieces, and artwork that touched the hearts of thousands of players, has made Imperial Settlers an evergreen classic. For gamers, Imperial Settlers is the first choice in the engine building genre. CHECK OUT THE IMPERIAL SETTLERS EXPANSIONS FAMILY!

---