LEADER
HUNS
SPECIAL ADVANCES
Nomads Storage
“Happy” size 1 cities may activate
to “Move” with units or alone into
Land spaces with no cities/
enemies, and gain 1 resource from
the new space.
Mounted Archers Husbandry
All your cities can “Build” Cavalry.
●
● Your Cavalry do not have to be
eliminated before Infantry.
Raiders Tactics
Opponent Settlers within 2 spaces of a
Hun Army cannot found cities or be
used for trade routes, unless with an
Army, Leader or city.
Hunnic Tribes Autocratic
Pay 1 Culture token or Gold to cancel
any Barbarian attack against you, or to
direct it towards an opponent city that
could normally be attacked.
LEADER
JAPAN
SPECIAL ADVANCES
Pottery Storage
When a city “Collects” at least 3
Food, get 1 Culture token (once per
turn).
Horsemanship Husbandry
● All your cities may “Build” Cavalry.
● Your Armies with Cavalry may
reroll 1 die the first combat round
(Pay 1 Culture token unless you also
have “Rituals”).
Subterfuge Tactics
Discard an Action card to cancel (as if
unplayed) any non-combat Action card
played by an opponent within 2 spaces
of your cities or Army units.
Shogunate Autocratic
● “AAA” Action cards can be
played at no action cost (once per
turn).
● May use “Draft” to draw an Action
card in place of a unit (once per turn).
LEADER
VIKINGS
SPECIAL ADVANCES
Shipcraft Fishing
● Infantry/Settlers can “Move” to an
adjacent Sea Space to become Ships
(or vice versa) ; new “Move” action
required to move units again.
● “Navigation” costs no Food.
Longships Warships
Ships may “Move” even if they have
●
battled this turn.
● Ships may carry 3 Land units.
Runestones Rituals
After each battle where you lose 2 or
more Army units, you may place an
Obelisk in front of you where it counts
as a 1 VP Objective.
Marauders Trade Routes
“Trade Routes”: When your Ships
pair up with adjacent cities, the city
owner loses 1 resource if possible
(their choice and only one per player).
LEADER
CARTHAGE
SPECIAL ADVANCES
Warbeasts Husbandry
● All cities can “Build” Elephants.
You are not forced to cancel “hits” on
●
1’s and 2’s but may choose to add
them to the CV instead.
Hegemony Cartography
AAA: May “Found” a Settlement with a
Ship on adjacent Land space with no
enemies (remove Ship and “Move” any
units on the Ship to the new city).
Pirate Allies Navigation
Your units (and Leader) may move
through or share spaces with Pirates.
When sharing, Pirates are regarded as
your ships in every way.
Mercenaries Draft
● Gold can replace Mood tokens
1:1 when using “Draft.”
● Cities with ports may “Draft”
Ships.
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ROME CHINA

SPECIAL ADVANCES SPECIAL ADVANCES

Aqueducts Engineering Rice Paddies Irrigation

● Ignore Famine Events.
You may buy “Sanitation” at either
●
Get +1 Food from each Fertile space
with a settler (and no city) that you
“Collect” from (up to 2 extra Food per

no Food cost or no action cost.

“Collect”).
Imperial Roads Roads

Free Action: One unit/group may use Sprawling Husbandry

“Roads” to “Move” between two
Roman cities at no resource cost
(once per turn).
Slave Economy
After “Building” one or more Settlers
(or using “Sanitation”), you may
“Move” any Settlers currently in cities
at no action cost.
Bartering

● Mood tokens can be spent as any Fireworks Chemistry

resource when “Increasing City Size”.
Prior to the first combat round: May
● Get 1 Gold and 1 Mood token after pay 1 Ore to deny your opponent the
any battle you win.
option to play a Combat card that
Provinces Autocratic round.

● All your cities can "build" Cavalry. Fighting Bands Autocratic

● As a final step upon capturing a city, AAA: Exchange any of your Settlers
you may make it "neutral" – or "happy" into Infantry and any of your Infantry
if you pay a Culture token. into Settlers (once per turn).

LEADER LEADER

INDIA EGYPT

SPECIAL ADVANCES SPECIAL ADVANCES

Indian Elephants Husbandry Food Plains Irrigation

● All your cities can “Build" Elephants. May “Collect” Wood from Barren
spaces and found Settlements there.
● Elephants may establish trade routes
unless they are in an “angry” city.

Architecture Engineering
Proselytism State Religion Mood tokens may replace resources or
Culture tokens 1:1 when building
“Cultural Influence”: Settlers may be
Wonders or
used to target cities (range 2) and they
“Increasing City Size”.
each add +1 range to the city they are
in or to a Settler in the same space.
Embalming Rituals

Prosperity Trade Routes ● Get 1 Culture token after fighting any

Trade routes may generate Mood tokens
instead of Food/Gold (or Culture tokens
from target cities under your Cultural
Influence).
battle (if you have 4 or fewer Culture
tokens).
● Always get 1 Culture token when
your Leader dies.

Man God Priesthood

Peace and Poetry Drama & Music
Each “Theocracy” advance also gives
“Advance”: An advance may be paid
you the power of the "Autocracy"
for with 1 Mood token rather than 2
advance to the left of it (no cubes are
Food (once per turn).
placed there).
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GREECE BABYLONIA

SPECIAL ADVANCES SPECIAL ADVANCES

Formal Training Public Education Canals Engineering

Get 1 Idea whenever you “Build” units in If you “Collect” only 1 Food (but
a city with an Academy. any amount of other resources), get
an extra Food for free.

Spartans Draft
● May use Culture tokens instead of Mood Code of Laws Writing
tokens for "Draft."
● Attackers cannot play Action cards Draw an Action card after a “Cultural
against you in rounds where you have Influence” success (if you have no
fewer Army units. more than 4 Action cards).

Helenization Art & Sculptures

Star Catalogs Astronomy
● May attempt “Cultural Influence” from
foreign cities under your Influence. Get 1 Idea or 1 Culture token before
you trigger an Event.
● May activate “Art & Sculptures” with
2 Mood tokens.

Voting
Ziggurats Dogma
City States
Cancels the “Dogma” Ideas limit.
After activating a city a second time,
●

you may avoid its mood drop by letting ● Ideas may be spent as resources of
a city of at least equal size and mood be any type when “Increasing City Size”
considered activated instead (once per with a Temple.
turn).

LEADER LEADER

PERSIA AZTECS

SPECIAL ADVANCES SPECIAL ADVANCES

Elephants Husbandry Captives Tactics

● All your cities can “Build” Elephants.
First round of combat: Each Elephant
●
Place up to 4 Captives here (+ ½ VP
each); any Army units defeated in a won
Land battle can be kept as Captives

cancels the bonus of one enemy

(prior to Apothecaries).
Cavalry.

Immortals Draft Human Sacrifice Rituals

Get +1 CV per Culture token you
spend prior to each combat round (up
to 4 per combat round).
Zoroastrianism Priesthood
“Cultural Influence”: May target an
Army unit in a Land space with no
cities (if successful, change it to your
color and battle any enemies there).
● Remove a Captive after you draw an
Event card to cancel it completely.
● Captives can be spent 1:1 as Food
or Culture or Mood tokens.
Tribute Empire Dogma
Pay 2 Mood tokens to "Collect" from
a size 3 or smaller city a no action
cost (once per turn).

Banking Currency Aztec Gold Art & Sculptures

Start of turn (prior to any trade routes): Once per turn. 1 Ore "Collected"
if you have any Gold, get 1 Gold or 1 from a Mountain space may instead
Culture token. be 1 Gold or 1 Culture token.
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MAYA PHOENICIA

SPECIAL ADVANCES SPECIAL ADVANCES

Terracing Irrigation City Independence Fishing

● You may "Collect" Ore, Wood, or ● All ports in your color have the
Food from Mountain spaces. Obelisk power and are worth 1½ VP.
● Settlers and Leaders may ignore ● Your Government advances are
Mountain terrain penalties. worth 0 VP.

Stelas Art & Sculptures Biremes Warships

Get 1 Culture token or 1 Idea when: Naval Battle: +1 hit the first round of
- “Increasing City Size” with an Obelisk combat against opponents (including
- “Founding” a city
- Capturing a city Pirates) without “Warships”.

Ballcourts Circus & Sports Alphabet Writing

● "Collect" or “Build” units: Pay 1 Up to 2 trade routes may each provide
Mood token to add +1 size to the city. either 1 Culture token or 2 Ideas instead
of Food/Gold.
● “Spirituality” advances cost 1 Food
less (once per turn).
Cedars and Dyes Trade Routes
Calendar Astronomy
“Trade Routes”: Your Ships and
You may look at, but not show, the top cities with Ports can pair up with
Event card at any time; you may then coastal cities up to 3 spaces away.
pay 1 Culture token to place the card at
the bottom of the deck.

LEADER

CELTS

SPECIAL ADVANCES

Tribal Warfare Tactics

Get +1 CV in Land battles vs. players

for each Barbarian settlement that has
at least 2 Barbarian units and is within
2 spaces of the battle.

Tribal Allies Draft

● AAA: Spawn Barbarians like the
Event card icon (once per turn).
● Cancel a Barbarian attack against you
by paying 1 Food for each attacking
Barbarian unit.
Druidic Influence Priesthood
May “Culturally Influence” Barbarians:
if successful, place a Culture token under
the Settlement — worth 1 VP (remove if
Settlement is captured).

Tribal Trade Trade Routes

May establish trade routes with
Barbarians (only Food, never Gold).