Mare Nostrum: Empires – Mythical Beasts Expansion Tiles
Mare Nostrum: Empires – Mythical Beasts Expansion Tiles Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Instructions
Mix these Beasts in with base game tiles and then randomly place 17 tiles on the board.
Hydra
Before resolving any Battles in the Battle Phase, you may choose one Battle and roll one Land Battle Die against each Legion / Fortress involved, including your own. Each die roll is resolved separately against each individual Legion/Fortress. Hit units are removed. This is not a Battle, and the die rolls are not modified by Hero or Bonus Cards. (+1 Military)
Other Beasts (unofficial community translation)
The four Beasts below are not on the English rules card. Their text is a faithful English translation of the Russian community table "Правила на все промо тайлы" (Tesera item 2448714). It is a condensed table, not the printed card text, and it is not official. Each entry gives the phase in which the ability applies, the ability, and the leadership influence the table lists.
Kraken
- Phase: III: Construction
- Ability: You may build fortresses in seas where you have triremes. Sea fortresses forcibly initiate a sea battle and neutralize 1 damage, just like land fortresses; roll the blue die for sea fortresses. Only one fortress may be in a given sea. Fortresses cannot be used to transport land troops.
- Leadership influence: Not listed in the source table.
Manticore
- Phase: III: Construction
- Ability: When hiring (at the moment of construction) the Manticore, each other player must remove one of their own legions from the map.
- Leadership influence: Military +2
Sphinx
- Phase: II: Trade Resources
- Ability: You may place your goods up for exchange after the other players have revealed theirs.
- Leadership influence: Culture +2
Mermaid
- Phase: III: Construction
- Ability: You may move your triremes up to two seas per turn.
- Leadership influence: Trade +1
Source notes and gaps
- The Setup text ("Instructions") and the Hydra ability are verbatim from the official English card. Its printed copyright line is omitted.
- The English wording of the Kraken, Manticore, Sphinx and Mermaid abilities was not reachable. The Academy Games site was rate-limited (HTTP 429) on every attempt, and BGG lists no rules files for this item. The Kraken, Manticore, Sphinx and Mermaid text above is therefore a translation of a community table, not official text.
- The Russian table is a condensed summary, so its wording is a paraphrase of the card abilities, not a verbatim copy.
- The Russian table gives the Hydra ability as "once per round". The printed English card does not say this, so the "once per round" limit is not included in the Hydra section above.
- The Russian table lists no leadership influence for the Kraken. None is shown here.
- The same Russian document also covers other promotional tiles (Xerxes, Brutus, Khufu, Alexander, Magon, David, Daniel, John the Baptist, Joshua, Jesus of Nazareth, Minotaur, Ariadne and Theseus). They are not part of this Mythical Beasts set and are omitted.