Concordia Venus
143 questions players ask about Concordia Venus. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-06.
Components and setup
- What are the four Venus cards with no pillar or ring symbol for?
- Why is the Mason in stack II instead of stack I in Venus, and can I shuffle him into stack I?
- Which personality cards are used for individual Venus play and how are the stacks set up?
- Which market cards are used in a three-player game of Venus?
- Are level 3 to 5 cards added to the stack in a two-player game?
- How many cards does each player start with in Venus?
- What is the orange turn-order marker for?
- How does the smaller Ionium game for two or three players work?
- How does a land colonist use the Brundisium to Apollonia sea crossing on Ionium?
- What are the cards with a white back for?
Player counts, variants and compatibility
- Do I need the original Concordia to play Concordia Venus?
- Is Concordia Venus compatible with Salsa, the other expansions and every map?
- How many players can play Concordia Venus?
- Can Concordia Venus be played with six individual players?
- Does Concordia Venus include solo rules?
- Can I play original Concordia with the Venus box, and what changes?
Personality cards
- When I play the Tribune, do I take back purchased cards as well as my starting cards?
- Can the Mercator buy goods I do not produce?
- Can the Architect build in two different cities next to the same colonist?
- Does it matter which Architect card is played on the Architect/Mercator double card?
- What does the Consul pay compared with the Senator?
- Where can the Colonist card place a new colonist?
- Can I play a Prefect for the coin bonus when the province shows no coins?
- Can I use both halves of a double-choice card such as Architect/Mercator?
Magister and Diplomat
- Does the Magister copy my top face-up card or the card under it?
- Can a Magister copy a Senator?
- Can a Magister copy a Diplomat, and can a Diplomat copy a Magister?
- If my Diplomat copies an opponent's Magister, what does it repeat?
- Which opponents' cards can a Diplomat not copy?
- Is the Diplomat placed on my discard pile before or after its action resolves?
- Does a Magister repeating a Prefect get the Praefectus Magnus double bonus?
Praefectus Magnus
Game end and scoring
- After the game end is triggered, who takes a final turn?
- In team play, does each team or each player get a final turn?
- What triggers the end of the game and who gets the Concordia card?
- How is the winner of a team game determined?
- Does the Legatus score for all three of its gods or only one?
- In team play, how does the Venus god score provinces?
- In team play, do both partners benefit from a Minerva card?
- How does intermediate scoring work, and is it required?
Team play
- How does a turn work in team play?
- In team play, can I decline to execute my partner's card?
- What may team partners share?
- How much may partners talk about their hands?
- Where do partners sit and how do the second partners start?
- How much money does each team start with?
- Which starting cards does each team partner remove?
- Which cards are removed in a four-player team game?
- Can both partners have a house in the same city?
- Why can't the second player build in their starting city at first?
- Does team play on Aegyptus need a special rule for the second player's start?
Concordia: SalsaExpansion
- Can salt be exchanged for another good at any time, and does that count as a Mercator trade?
- Can I swap salt for another good and then sell that good with a Mercator?
- Is leftover salt worth sestertii at game end?
- Can salt be swapped for fish to use a Fish Market action?
- How do salt cities score with Minerva cards?
- Do salt cities count for Mercurius scoring or when the Mason produces?
- Do salt cities count for Venus scoring?
- Which bonus marker is used in a province with a salt city?
- Which city tiles are replaced by salt cities on each map, and where are the rules?
Concordia: SolitariaExpansion
- Can Solitaria be played on any map and with Salsa, the Fish Market or the Venus Magister?
- Can Contrarius be added to a multiplayer game?
- Where does Contrarius place its first new colonist on Balearica?
- How is Contrarius set up on Veteran difficulty?
- What does Contrarius build if no city of the rolled or preferred goods type is available?
- How does Contrarius choose which city to build in?
- Do face-down Contrarius specialists still count for its builds?
- Does Contrarius score the Prefect minimum when the province has none of its houses?
- Does Contrarius ever receive goods from production?
Concordia: Roma / SiciliaExpansion
- Which side faces up when a volcano token replaces a bonus token?
- After taking the Prefect's coin bonus on Roma, can I move a sea colonist?
- How does Byzantium scoring work on Roma, and are those gods scored again at game end?
- Where do new colonists go on the Roma map?
- How does movement through the gate on Via Tiburtina work with the Architect?
- Do houses on the ship track (Carthage, Athens) produce for Minerva and specialists?
- Does Julius give the bonuses where my sea colonists end up on Roma?
- Is Roma / Sicilia compatible with the Contrarius solo mode?
- Can sea colonists pass through Messana on Sicilia, and what does Donatus Pompeius pay there?
Concordia: Aegyptus / CretaExpansion
- How does the Gavdos bonus marker work on Creta?
- Does the Praefectus Magnus double the Gavdos bonus?
- How does the Nile food bonus work?
- Can sea colonists use the Nile sections, and can a second one wait on a Red Sea frankincense line?
- How do the frankincense and gold squares work?
- With the Fish Market on Creta, what does Gavdos produce and what does the cash bonus pay?
- How many colonists are in the storehouse at the start on Creta?
Concordia: Britannia / GermaniaExpansion
Concordia: Gallia / CorsicaExpansion
Concordia: 8 Forum Cards mini-expansionExpansion
- With Cursus Arcadius, can I alternate movement between two colonists?
- Can Emeritus Scipio be used in Venus team play?
- How does Linus Pompeius work with salt, the Praefectus Magnus and cloth markers?
- Can a Prefect forum tile let me take any good?
- Are the 8 Forum Cards compatible with Venus and how are they dealt?