Concordia

To set up Concordia, first, place all city tiles face down on their corresponding lettered spaces on the map. Then, flip all the city tiles face up. Next, for each province, identify the most valuable good produced there and place the corresponding good token on the designated space on the grid. Each player receives an identical starting deck of personality cards. The common deck of personality cards is sorted by Roman numeral, then cut down based on the number of players (e.g., for a three-player game, use stacks I, II, and III). Each Roman numeral stack is shuffled separately, and then piled with the highest-numbered stack at the bottom. Deal the top seven cards from this combined deck face-up onto the board. Each player chooses a color for their pieces and fills their storehouse with two land colonists, two sea colonists, two food, and one each of the remaining goods (brick, cloth, tool, wine). Each player also takes 15 houses in their chosen color. Randomly determine a start player, who receives 5 sestertii. Each subsequent player, moving clockwise around the table, receives one additional sestertius to start. The last player in turn order receives the Praefectus Magnus card.

The primary objective in Concordia is to accumulate the most victory points by the end of the game. Players achieve this by strategically expanding their Roman empire across the map, establishing colonies, producing and trading various goods, and acquiring a diverse set of personality cards. Each personality card, colonist, house, and type of good produced contributes to a player's final score, encouraging a balanced approach to empire building and resource management.

During your turn, you must play one personality card from your hand. The card's action is immediately performed, allowing you to move colonists, produce goods, build houses, or gain money. After performing the action, the played card is placed face-up in your personal discard pile. You cannot play the same card two turns in a row unless you use the Tribune card to retrieve all your discarded cards back to your hand.

Scoring in Concordia occurs only at the end of the game. Points are awarded based on the number of colonists you have on the board, the number of houses you've built, the variety of goods produced in your controlled cities, and the types of personality cards you have collected. Each personality card has a specific scoring condition tied to a Roman god, rewarding different aspects of your empire, such as the number of provinces you control, the number of specific goods you produce, or the number of colonists you have.

The game concludes when one of two conditions is met: either a player successfully builds their 15th and final house, or the last personality card is dealt from the common deck on the board. Once either of these conditions is triggered, the current round continues until all players have had an equal number of turns. After that, one final round is played, and then the game immediately ends, proceeding to final scoring.