Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory – Historical Events
Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory – Historical Events Rulebook
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Table of Contents
Historical Events
The Historical Events deck is made of 50 cards, split into an Early Period and five numbered Periods. Each Period is revealed in its own round.
- Early Period – Setup: 5 cards that cover major events of the 18th and 19th Century. Revealed during setup.
- Period I – Round 1: 9 cards that cover events from the 1900s–1920s.
- Period II – Round 2: 9 cards that cover events from the 1920s–1940s.
- Period III – Round 3: 9 cards that cover events from the 1940s–1970s.
- Period IV – Round 4: 9 cards that cover events from the 1970s–1990s.
- Period V – Round 5: 9 cards that cover events from the 1990s–2020s.
Historical Event Card Anatomy
- Title: The name of the event.
- Year(s): The years the event covers.
- Period Indicator: A Roman numeral showing the card's Period (III in the example below). Early Period cards show an asterisk instead.
- Requirement: The conditions that must be met for the Historical Event to apply its effect. Shown as a Policy section (for example, "2B / 2C") with the condition printed under it.
- Trigger: Which player(s) can trigger the Historical Event, and whether it requires a Free Action or a Basic Action.
- Effect: The listed effects, each shown with the symbol of the player who applies it. Some effects also show the State symbol (see The Effect below).
- Extra Setup: A label on the Early Period card pointing to its effect, which is applied during setup.
Example card layout (Period III Event, "Chinese Communist Revolution", 1945–1949):
- Requirement: 2B / 2C. The Working Class has 3 or less (red smiley symbol). There are at least 2 Trade Unions.
- Trigger: Working Class symbol (red figure) and State symbol (grey figure): BASIC ACTION.
- Effect: There will be no further Elections this round.
- Working Class symbol (red figure): Choose up to 2 Policies and move their markers to an adjacent section.
- Capitalist Class symbol (blue figure): Pay 40 money to the State.
- State symbol (grey figure): Choose a Policy (not chosen by the Working Class) and move its marker to an adjacent section.
Example card layout (Early Period Event, "Revolutions of 1848", 1848–1849):
- Effect (Extra Setup):
- Working Class symbol (red figure): Before drawing Action cards, search your Action deck for 2 "Need for Change" cards and add them to your hand. Then, shuffle the deck and draw 5 more Action cards.
- Middle Class symbol (yellow figure): Add 2 Voting cubes to the bag.
- State symbol (grey figure): Remove 2 Media.
Setup
Separate the cards by their Period and shuffle each Period's cards separately. (Early Period cards are marked with an asterisk.) Then, take a card from each Period at random and, without looking at them, place them in a face down pile in order, from Early Period on the top to Period V on the bottom. Return the rest of the cards to the box.
During Game Setup, reveal the Early Period card and apply its effect.
Example:
"Revolutions of 1848" instructs the Working Class player to search their Action deck for 2 "Need for Change" cards and start the game with them in hand. The Middle Class player adds 2 Voting cubes to the bag, and the State player removes 2 Influence from the Public Services.
Note: the printed card art for "Revolutions of 1848" reads "Remove 2 Media" for the State symbol and "search your Action deck ... shuffle the deck and draw 5 more Action cards" for the Working Class symbol. The setup example above describes the State removal as Influence from the Public Services and the Working Class search as starting the game with the cards in hand. Both are transcribed as printed.
How to Play
At the end of the Preparation Phase (including the first round of the game, in which the Preparation Phase is skipped), reveal the top Historical Event card, corresponding to the current round, and place it where everyone can see it, covering any previously revealed Historical Event card.
Each Historical Event consists of 3 main parts: the requirement, the trigger, and the effect. Early Period Historical Events only have an effect, since they are applied during setup.
The Requirement
For a Historical Event to apply its effect, its requirements must be met. If they are not, then it cannot be triggered.
The Trigger
The trigger determines when the effect is applied. A Historical Event can be triggered in 3 different ways: when the card is revealed, at the end of the Action Phase, or as a player's action. In all cases, the requirements must be met for the Historical Event to be triggered.
If the trigger is an action, not all players may be able to activate it. The card will list which players can trigger the Historical Event, and it will also list whether it requires a Free Action or a Basic Action to do so. Sometimes it may even list an additional requirement from the player, like spending Influence for example.
Note that each Historical Event can only be triggered once. As soon as its effect is applied, turn its card face down.
The Effect
When the Historical Event is triggered, apply all of the listed effects in the order written. In some cases, one or more players' symbols may be shown in front of part of the effect. In such cases, that part of the effect only applies to the player(s) shown.
Note that, in some cases, an effect that mentions the State should only be applied in a 4-player game, where the State is controlled by a player. If an effect is shown without the State player symbol in front of it, it is applied in all player counts. If, however, the State symbol is included (which is usually shown near the bottom of the card), that part of the effect is only applied in 4-player games, by the player playing the State.
Additional Clarifications
Changing Policies: When a policy is shown with an arrow next to it, move its Policy marker, if able, to the next section in that direction. If a player had already Proposed a Bill for that policy, their marker is removed, and they get 1 Influence.
No Elections: When an effect states that there will be no elections, you cannot propose any Bills during the round, and the Elections Phase is skipped that round as well. If there were any Bills proposed before the effect was triggered, discard them and give players 1 Influence for each of their discarded Bill markers.
Player Count: The symbol (a single figure) indicates number of players. When shown, any effect afterward applies only in games with the corresponding number of players.
Example
It is the second round in a 4-player game, and the Historical Event that was revealed was "Baby Boom". In order for its effect to be activated, Policy 2 needs to be in either 2A or 2B, and there need to be at least 3 operational Health Companies.
Lisa plays the Working Class and wants to trigger the Historical Event. While there are 3 Healthcare Companies in the game, only 2 of them are operational. Thus, she uses her Basic Action to Assign Workers to that third Company and make it operational as well. With her Free Action, she triggers the Historical Event, and as a result, both she and Jack (the Middle Class player) each get 3 unskilled Workers in the Unemployed Workers Area and 1 Prosperity.
The "Baby Boom" card layout for this example:
- Title: Baby Boom, 1940s – 1960s. Period II (the period indicator shows "II").
- Requirement: 2A / 2B, with two player-count symbols (showing 2 and 3) and the text "There are at least 2 / 3 operational Health Companies."
- Trigger: Working Class symbol (red figure) and Middle Class symbol (yellow figure): FREE ACTION.
- Effect: Working Class symbol (red figure) and Middle Class symbol (yellow figure): Get 3 unskilled Workers and gain 1 Prosperity.
Note on the Baby Boom requirement: the card shows its two player-count symbols with the figures "2" and "3" as "2 / 3" and the text as "at least 2 / 3". The source does not spell out in text which player count uses which number. The example above (a 4-player game requiring 3 operational Health Companies) is the only printed confirmation, and the card is transcribed as printed.
Icon Key
The icons on the cards are rendered as words above. The player symbols follow the colours of the base game's Bill markers: red figure = Working Class, yellow figure = Middle Class, blue figure = Capitalist Class, grey figure = State. The purple speech-bubble symbol is Media. The red smiley symbol is printed on the card without a text name in the source, and is kept as "red smiley symbol". The colour-to-class mapping is inferred from the base rulebook's Bill marker colours and from the Baby Boom example, not stated on the card; the Baby Boom example confirms red = Working Class and yellow = Middle Class.