¶ Technologies
Technology is an improvement that provides bonuses and makes your civilization more advanced.
Technologies are cards that have:
¶ Technology types
Technologies are divided into three types, depending on the time they are applied:
Instant - activated only once right after the research.
Permanent - activated every time a certain event occurs, or a certain condition is fulfilled. This can happen even during your opponent's turn.
Recurrent - can be activated once per round.
If there is a number in the center of this symbol, this technology can be activated up to this number of times each round.
Whenever you use a recurrent technology, put an activation cube on it. This allows you to track whether you've already used it this round. At the end of a round, all activation cubes are discarded.
¶ Technology classes
Each technology belongs to either one of four classes:
Economic
Warfare
Cultural
Scientific
Technology class shows which aspect of the game it affects. Some achievements require the research of certain technology classes, so thoughtful research is one of the ways to victory.
¶ Technology grid
Technology grid is a layout with face up technology cards available for players to research. During the game setup, technology cards are laid out in a 3x4 or 4x4 grid for 2 & 3 or 4 players, respectively.
Players can research any technology by paying its cost and spending action cubes based on the distance to the card from the previously researched technology.
¶ Ages
- Age І that the game starts in and lasts the first 3 rounds. Early Middle Ages, also called Dark Ages, lasted from the 5th to the 11th centuries.
- Age ІІ lasts the next two rounds (round 4 and 5). High Middle Ages or Feudal Ages, XI-XIV centuries.
- Age ІІІ lasts the final 6th round. Late Middle Ages or Imperial Ages, XIV-XVI centuries.
There is a special deck of technology cards for every age. At the end of the age, all remaining cards of the technology grid are discarded, and new grid from new technology deck is laid out. All researched technologies remain available to players until the end of the game.