Nations FAQ
426 questions players ask · Updated Nov 10, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components and setupExpansion
- Is the Progress Board empty at the start of the game?
- Does Himeji Castle trigger when you build over a pre-printed starting building?
- Can a pre-printed card on your player board be removed, and how is that marked?
- Can you buy the Pyramids wonder on the Egypt B-side, which already has the Pyramids?
- How many progress cards go on the Progress Board at setup for each player count?
- How is the progress card board refilled when a new age starts?
- How many basic, advanced and expert War cards are in each age?
- What are the B-side player boards?
- How many workers can the Mongols have in total?
- Can Portugal or Egypt take military cards when their player board has no red military slot?
- How is the player board selection order decided at setup?
- Can the event deck be set up with two cards from each era?
- What do I do with the Rome B-side's starting Stability and Military bonus?
- Does Egypt's B-side start with its Pyramids already built?
- Can a building or military card go on either kind of board slot?
- Is there a maximum military strength, and does that cap apply at final scoring?
- Is there a limit on how many workers I can place on one card?
- Is there a standard difficulty level for growth in Nations?
- What do the difficulty levels (Chieftain, Prince, King, Emperor) change during play?
- Does Japan's Emperor count as an advisor, for example for Absolute Monarchy, Imperial Examination or out-of-touch advisor penalties?
Game ConceptsExpansion
- Is battle plunder the same as a unit's military power?
- How many VP can a resource shortfall cost in one round?
- When a nation cannot pay a required resource, what is lost and in what order?
- What happens during production if your stability is negative?
- Does stability reduce resource losses from events, or only from war?
- Does negative stability make a lost war cost more resources?
- How do you track stability below -3 on the track?
- Can Books go below zero?
- Can you lose a victory point you do not have?
- Can military strength go below zero?
- Can you voluntarily return a worker to the population track?
- Where does a worker go when an event makes you lose it, or the population track has no free space?
- Does an event that says 'remove' a worker send it back to the population track?
- If you have no room to return a worker during growth, does that cover a resource loss?
- What does taking an extra worker from the population track cost?
- Is a worker's deployment cost paid every round or only once?
- Does undeploying a worker from a military card cost stone?
- Does Han Dynasty's free worker let you avoid the worker's upkeep?
- How does military strength change when workers are added to or removed from a military card?
- What do the round and square icons on a card's production mean?
- Do Military and Stability from cards build up or reset each round?
- Do Military and Stability change at once when a worker moves or a card is replaced?
- When an event removes a colony and then checks stability, is the lost stability already gone?
- When the top half of an event changes stability or military, does the bottom half use the updated values?
- In 2-4 player games, does a tie for most or least count?
- Who counts as least when players tie for the lowest value, or stability is negative?
- When an effect targets the strongest or weakest nation and players tie, who is affected?
- In a 5-player game, how many players get a most or least effect when they are tied?
- When are advisors with a least-stability removal condition, such as Qin Shi Huang's, checked?
- Does tying for least stability trigger a least-based removal, such as Qin Shi Huang's?
- Does building Versailles make its owner count as least stable?
- If another nation is in revolt, are you tied with it for least when you have built Versailles?
- In a 5-player game with Versailles built, who counts as most and least stable?
- When a wonder's reward depends on stability or military, who receives it, such as Brandenburg Gate's stone and gold?
- Does the Sistine Chapel's book bonus apply to architects hired while the wonder is still under construction?
- Does Sphinx pay 5 Stone for wonders that other players complete?
- What does Stonehenge give when it is completed, and does the reward repeat?
- Does Sankore University pay its +8 Books again when the X marker is removed at the end of a round?
- Does Hatshepsut's gold come every round, or only her book bonus on wonder completion?
- Does Genghis Khan's -3 Stability apply to every nation?
- Do Abu Bakr's Books and Genghis Khan's Stability and Military effects repeat each round?
- Do Isabella's or Peter the Great's production bonuses benefit other players?
- Does Peter the Great produce resources in a round with no War?
- Does Alfred Nobel's stone bonus count workers on any industrial building?
- Can you buy a War card while you own the Alfred Nobel advisor?
- What does Taoism's 'first matching player' bonus mean?
- What does Hannibal's +1 do?
- How does the promo Engineering Genius card work when I buy it?
- What does Advisor Hypatia do?
- Can Archimedes's architect be saved for a later round?
- Does Advisor Anna Komnene cancel the penalties from workers on military cards?
- Does Mansa Musa pay when you spend your last gold on any purchase, and can it pay more than once a round?
- How does Sun Tzu's extra action work, and when do advisor bonuses take effect?
- How does a Golden Age card's resource or VP option work?
- How do Golden Age bonuses such as Greece's stack?
- Can you discard an advisor or other card on your board without replacing it?
- How long does an advisor stay on my player board?
- Can the advisor sitting on a wonder be replaced by another advisor?
- How does Porcelain Tower work with advisors, and what if an effect takes your advisor?
- What happens to your advisors if you do not pay an Assassin's food cost?
- How does Shaka Zulu's advisor affect other players when they buy a colony?
- Can you buy a progress card and discard it right away, and where do bought cards go?
- If you return a worker to the -3 stability space, do you regain the stability?
- Does the game move to the next age after all players pass, or after a set number of rounds?
- Can you deploy a worker on an Axeman while you have no food?
- What are industrial buildings?
- Is Stability capped at 15?
- Does Himeji Castle's bonus count a red military card as a building?
- How much strength does Japan's Emperor add for each advisor bought, and do his tokens reset?
- When Japan plays a dynasty card, what does it replace, and can that space be turned back later?
- Does Edo Period protect Japan from the effects of being defeated in a War, such as wonders removed when defeated?
- Can America use its dynasty power when only one of the two least-military players has a spare dynasty card?
- What military strength do I need to buy a colony, and does it matter afterwards?
- Do a colony's stability or military bonuses stop when another colony covers it?
- Does a colony's resource bonus come every round, and does holding a colony need upkeep?
Playing the Game
- Do Black Death and Emigration remove a worker from the game when they say Remove?
- How many rounds are in each age, and is the scoring round played out?
- Can you play Nations with six players?
- What happens when an age's Progress deck runs out?
- Are the Penal Colony and the Sewer System meant to be identical?
- What does the 'II II' age marking on the Finland promo card mean?
Maintenance PhaseExpansion
- How many architects are restocked each round, and do unused ones carry over?
- Do architects granted by a card (private architects) carry over between rounds?
- Are the extra architects granted by an Event lost if you do not hire them that round?
- Can you take population growth while your stability is negative?
- What does taking a worker from the population track cost, and is it paid once or every round?
- Can you take more than one worker in a single Growth step?
- In what order are Growth decisions made in the Maintenance Phase?
- Are event cards drawn before Growth in the first round?
- Can you grow workers in the first round?
- When an age changes, do the cards left on row three of the Progress Board stay on the board?
- Do you lose one book per point of negative stability, with no cap, and is it recalculated?
- Does Saint Augustine's most-stable production bonus apply every round?
- Does Augustus's extra ore happen once per round, and under what condition?
- Does Notre Dame's most-stability bonus add to its base books?
- Do the cost circles at the bottom of a building or military card cost stone every Production phase?
- Does the Colosseum cost food once it is ready, and what happens if you lack food?
- How many resources does Spice Islands give, and must they be one type?
- When Persia's Sassanid Empire discards Turmoil cards, are they removed from the round?
- How many Turmoil cards can be taken in a round?
- Can you add a worker from the Population Track during the round, for example to deploy onto a card bought that round?
Action PhaseExpansion
- Can you deploy several workers on the same building or military card in one round?
- Is the deployment limit one worker per turn or one per action?
- Can you buy a card, deploy a worker and hire an architect in the same turn?
- Do deployed workers return to your reserve at the end of each round?
- Can you undeploy workers during the events phase so an event that deploys free workers can use them?
- Is moving a worker from one building to another an undeploy followed by a deploy?
- Does a wonder under construction give its bonus before it is ready?
- Can a special action on a progress card be used more than once in a round?
- Is using a special action described on a card on your player board a separate action option?
- If your first action removes Sun Tzu, do you still get the second action?
- What counts as a turn in the Action Phase, and can one player take several actions in a round?
- Does one player passing end the round for everyone?
- Can you pass during another player's turn, and does passing use your action?
- Can you skip your turn without taking an action or passing?
- Can you hire more than one architect in a turn?
- In what order do you hire architects onto a Wonder?
- Does the Sistine Chapel's 3 books apply when you place a private architect?
- Can you cover a Wonder you already have with a newer Wonder?
- Does a wonder's ready effect still happen when the new wonder covers that same wonder?
- Can you destroy a card without replacing it with another?
- When a building or military card is replaced or covered, what happens to the workers on it?
- Can a new progress card cover an existing card on your board, even if the old card has negative points?
- Can a building replace a military card, and a military card replace a building?
- Can you buy a new colony to replace an existing colony, even one that needs more strength than you have after the swap?
- Does buying a new colony over a full colony slot trigger Simon Bolivar's reward?
- Can Simon Bolivar free another player's colonies?
- Can Galileo Galilei buy a Natural Wonder for free?
- Does Himeji Castle's bonus trigger when you replace a built building with an older-age building?
- Does Archimedes's architect action end when Archimedes is replaced by another advisor?
- Can Suleiman I take a worker on each of your turns in a round?
- Can Abraham Lincoln's take-a-worker action be used many times in one round?
- Can Royal Society's free deploy be used on a military unit as well as a building?
- Does Sejong the Great's +2 stone apply to every Golden Age you buy?
- Are advisor conditions such as 'if least stability, remove' checked only when the advisor is bought?
- Can a Golden Age bonus make a Golden Age's resources free, or do I choose between resources and buying VP?
- Can you buy a Progress Card with VP, books or resources instead of gold?
- Can you buy a War card when you have zero Military?
- If a War has strength 0, does anyone suffer its losses?
- If your Strength is below 0 and you buy a War, where does the War marker go, and can Sinking of the Vasa push you below 0?
- What does Solomon's Temple's 'If Defeated' mean?
- Can a player voluntarily pay the Assassin's food cost instead of losing an advisor?
- If several meeples are on the Assassin, does it trigger once per meeple?
- What does Alhazen's once-per-round action do?
- Can Venice's Constantinople be used more than once per round?
- If another player buys a Golden Age, can you buy VP from it when they take the Abbasid Caliphate?
- When does Korea's Golden Age ability (hire 2 architects free) trigger after buying Antikythera Mechanism?
- Does buying a card for 1 gold on Red Fort give its food bonus each time?
- In solo, can a newly bought Wonder replace a Wonder you already have?
- Do you gain stability or military strength immediately when you deploy a worker?
- How many workers can you place on one building or military card, and does each one add its full bonus?
- Do you pay the stone cost once per building or for each worker placed on it?
- Can a constructed wonder be built twice, such as a second Pyramids for Egypt?
- When you take Nikola Tesla's action several times in a round, do the rolls replace each other or add up?
- Can you return a worker to your Resource Area at will?
- Can you remove a Zhu Xi that an advisor has already replaced, using Mali Empire or Old Kingdom?
- If an advisor covers Zhu Xi in Poland's wonder slot, can another nation buy only the Zhu Xi?
- If Zhu Xi has been replaced once and is then removed by the Assassin, are both advisors removed?
- Can Persia use the Sassanid Empire power more than once in a round to take Turmoil cards?
- Does the Assassin count as a military unit for Sparta's dynasty?
- With Kingdom of Leon, does the Assassin trigger on a Battle, and does Pactum Warmundi trigger when a Leon holder buys a War?
- How does Portugal's Kingdom of Leon work when a War is bought?
- Can the Japanese Emperor be removed by the Assassin or by the Titanic?
- If you play Sheba after buying a colony, does the military no-upkeep effect still apply that round?
- Can Rome's Roman Republic dynasty discard a private architect?
- Can Portugal benefit from Great Lighthouse when paying 3 gold for a card?
- Can the Qin Dynasty architect come from the supply, cost no stone, and go straight onto a Wonder under construction?
- Can Qin's action return a worker without hiring the free architect?
- How does Korea's Buy Golden Age power work with the two free architects?
- Do Buddha or Sun Tzu affect the extra action from Jagellonian Dynasty?
- When is Jagellonian Dynasty's 'Before Progress' extra action taken?
- Must you take all three actions from Wardenclyffe Tower when it is ready?
- Can you pass partway through discovering a natural wonder and resume it in a later round?
Resolution PhaseExpansion
- In a 5-player game, which nations does a negative event hit?
- In an event, how do nations in revolt (negative Stability) rank?
- What does a nation in revolt lose during Production?
- How are ties for most or least Strength or Stability resolved?
- After Olympic Games in a 5-player game, who goes first?
- When an event moves several nations to last, what order do they end up in?
- When players pay or go last in a turn-order event, how is the new order set?
- Does Feudal Dues' turn-order skip apply in the round it is revealed?
- Does the Peace of Westphalia event change the turn order?
- When the Change Player Order step happens, do events resolve in the old or the new order?
- After the Sinking of the Vasa, what does the least-Stability nation choose?
- Can I choose a Military Strength reduction that would take me below 0?
- Under Papal Indulgence, what happens if two players tie for highest Stability?
- If the most-stable nation has no wonder under construction when Papal Indulgence resolves, can it still hire the free architect?
- Does Papal Indulgence's free architect also go to the second most stable nation?
- What does Fourth Crusade do when two nations share the most Strength?
- Does Fourth Crusade's book loss for the weakest nation happen if the strongest nation doesn't pay?
- How does Fourth Crusade work in a 5-player game when the strongest nation pays?
- When does Qin Shi Huang's 3 food come in, and what does 'If least stability: remove. 3 food' mean?
- In what order is production resolved, and does the order matter?
- Is all production resolved before any consumption, so books made this round can pay for stone?
- Why is Famine resolved after Events instead of in the production calculation?
- When you can't pay a resource loss, how many VP do you lose?
- Does Stability reduce losses from a war only, or also from events and famine?
- Does Stability reduce the cost of a negative event?
- Does negative Stability make a lost war cost more resources?
- Where do resources lost to a war go?
- How can you avoid losing the VP from a war?
- What does the small -1 VP icon on a war card mean?
- Does Bronze Age Collapse hit a player tied for most Military or most Stability?
- When raiding with several military cards, do their raid values add up?
- At end-of-age book scoring, do tied Books matter?
- When an event makes you return a worker, when does it happen, where does it go, and what does it cost to retake it?
- When Emigration or Black Death removes a worker, does that worker leave the game?
- Does Weltpolitik's gold and stone bonus depend on Industrial colonies?
- If you complete Wardenclyffe Tower during Great Exhibition, do its three actions come at once, and can you buy a War with them?
- Does Florence Nightingale protect Stability or Strength from loss?
- Does Cyrus the Great pay 3 gold for a colony you conquered before you got him?
- For Magellan's Expedition's +5 gold per Colony bought this round, do colonies you later replace still count?
- When an event offers two costs, can you choose one you can't afford?
- If an event or effect says to remove your advisor, do you lose every advisor you have?
- On Hellenism, if two players tie for most Strength, do all players lose 2 Food?
- Can you take Glorious Revolution's +6 coins by going last when you're already last in turn order?
- Is there a base food consumption each round?
- When does Notre Dame check your Stability in the Production phase?
- Do the circle or square icons on the Population Track take effect right away?
- When an event makes you remove a colony and you have two, which one goes?
- For a most-food or least-food event like March to Moscow, is food counted as stock or as production?
- Does Justice's 'regain all lost VP to war' include VP that other players lost?
- How does the Rigveda event's book bonus for War and Battle cards work?
- When Machiavelli's controller picks an event, what happens to the other event card?
- Can a player use an event's choice, like Paper Money's, more than once in a round?
- How does Stability mitigate Martin Luther's extra food loss after losing a war?
- What happens to the fourth row of colonies from Victoria Falls between rounds?
- What happens if my Military is negative?
- Does Sea Peoples let you remove a private architect, and how many does each least-Military nation remove?
- Do completed wonders keep producing their circle benefits every round?
- Can Entente Cordiale let you deploy two workers to the same military card?
Game endExpansion
- Is Potala Palace scored at the end of each age, or only at final game scoring?
- Can a Porcelain Tower covered by an advisor and a replaced Zhu Xi both count toward Potala Palace?
- Does the Japanese Emperor count as an advisor for Potala Palace?
- Does Shwedagon's extra Stability count at end-of-game scoring, and do Joseon Kingdom's resources come back before scoring?
- Do colonies, buildings or wonders covered or replaced by newer cards still score at game end?
- Do workers left on cards score VP at game end without an action, and what if the card was replaced?
- When do you score VP from cards on your tableau?
- What is scored at the end of each age, and what waits for game end?
- How are leftover Books and other resources turned into VP at game end?
- Do unfinished wonders produce resources or score VP?
- Does Big Ben score VP for industrial colonies built by other players?
- How many VP do Books score in a 2-player game?
- Who wins if the final score is tied?
- How many rounds does a game of Nations last?
- When does the game end: before or after the last round's Resolution Phase?
Additional rules & clarificationsExpansion
- Does a Great Plains space covered by a building still count for Grand Canyon?
- Can Mechanical Turk be replaced by another wonder?
- What happens when all your wonder slots are full of natural wonders or Mechanical Turk?
- Can the Portuguese Empire place colonies on all of your empty Wonder spaces?
- When Poland's Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth dynasty is replaced, are advisors on Wonder spaces discarded?
- When Poland's dynasty lets another player buy an Advisor from a Wonder space for 3 gold, does Poland get that advisor's effects, and where does the gold go?
- Can a Wonder later be placed over an advisor sitting on a Wonder space?
- When Poland holds Chopin on a Wonder space, what can another player pay to buy him?
- Does Mansa Musa's bonus trigger when Mali Empire's action removes Mansa after spending your last gold?
- Does buying a Battle for 0 gold count as spending your last gold for Mansa Musa?
- Does Varangians' +4 books apply when you buy Frederic Chopin from another player?
- Does Hatshepsut's wonder-completion bonus trigger when another player completes a wonder?
- If you complete the Titanic while holding Hatshepsut, do you take her 3 books before removing her?
- Does the Sphinx's 5-stone bonus apply when you finish a natural wonder?
- If you replace Old Uppsala later in the round, does its +3 strength from the action still apply?
- Does the Antikythera Mechanism's draw-until-Wonder effect stop at a Natural Wonder?
- Are players who have already passed affected when Democratic Republicans forces a dynasty change?
- Does Sheba's no-upkeep-for-military effect apply if you buy Sheba after the colony?
- How much stone does Oresund Dues give after you pass?
- What does Egypt's Old Kingdom 'Replace or Remove' ability refer to?
- How does Poland's Jagiellonian Dynasty 'before progress' action work?
- When does Qin Shi Huang's remove-on-least-stability effect trigger?
- What happens to Great Library if you have the least stability?
- If one advisor partially covers another (like Zhu Xi), do they count as one advisor?
- Does Anna Komnene cancel the negative effects on military cards, including Stability drops?
- Does Sahara's War +4 raise your military for everything or only for checking a war?
1 Player VariantExpansion
- In a solo game, which Progress Board column does a die roll remove?
- In a solo game, do unused Architects carry over to the next round?
- How many Architects are in the pool in a solo game?
- In a solo game, does passing make the shadow player roll the die?
- In a solo game, does deploying a worker to a building make the shadow player roll?
- When does the shadow player roll the die in a solo game?
- Does a special action, such as Sun Tzu's double turn or a wonder action, trigger the shadow roll?
- In a solo game, does skipping a turn with Buddha trigger the shadow roll?
- In a solo game, if the shadow rolls a 5 or 6 more than once, does the event action apply each time?
- In a solo game, do pass-first bonuses such as China's extra grain or Venice's power always apply?
- In a solo game, do you win ties in categories like most Workers when the shadow has none?
- In a solo game, does the shadow player collect resources or lose VP to famine and events?
- In a solo game, do the shadow player's Books reset each round or add up?
- In a solo game, are the shadow player's Stability and Military reset each round?
- In a solo game, do the printed changes on an event tile apply to the shadow player or to you?
- How do the symbols on a solo event tile work?
- In a solo game, do you lose VP when your Stability is equal to or below the shadow's?
- In a solo game, do you lose the game if your VP goes negative?
- In a solo game, is there any point buying War cards from the Progress Board?
- In a solo game, if the shadow gets two War cards in one round, which one counts?
- If my Military Strength is 0, am I hit by a War in a solo game?
- In a solo game, when Le Vite adds three Architects, do you also add three Turmoil cards?
- In a solo game, how does Niccolo Machiavelli's Reveal Events effect work?
- In a solo game, does Versailles's least-Stability effect last for the rest of the round?
- Does Peter the Great fire when there is no War in play?
- Does the shadow player's starting Military matter in a solo game?
- In a solo game, can I remove a person, pay a fee, and then make the Raid move?
- Does leftover gold count toward VP at the end of a solo game?
- In a solo game, does a lost War hurt the shadow player?
Appendix
Nations: DynastiesExpansion
- Can I play with only the new Progress cards, without the Dynasties or Turmoil cards?
- Can base-game A-sides be mixed with the new Dynasty boards, or do Dynasties apply only to B-sides?
- Does discovering a Natural Wonder cost resources?
- Can a discovered Natural Wonder be replaced, or can it replace a colony?
- Can Portugal replace built Wonders, and can a colony on a Wonder space be replaced by a Wonder?
- What happens when Mongolia's Strength goes below 0?
- In solo play, do you roll the shadow die when a Natural Wonder is discovered?
- Does Persia's free worker deployment use up your whole first action?
- For Portugal's Kingdom of Leon, do Montezuma, Abu Bakr and Rigveda stack with the War and Battle bonuses?
- When you pay the Axumite Kingdom owner 3 gold, is it on top of the normal price?
- In solo play, does taking a Turmoil card roll the shadow die, and does the shadow take Turmoil cards?
- In solo play, which pass-order bonuses still apply: Venice, Coffee House, Uluru, Arabian Nights or Oresund Dues?
- In solo play, does Democratic Republicans give Books when the shadow has least Strength?
- Does America count as a player with least Strength for the Democratic Republicans action?
- Which players does Democratic Republicans affect, and can it force a player with no Dynasty cards left to do anything?
- Does Democratic Republicans still force a change on a player who has already passed?
- How many Turmoil cards must be left for Democratic Republicans to be available?
- In solo play, does the shadow removing a Progress card count as another player buying it?
- Does Pactum Warmundi's gold raise the price other players pay for a battle or colony?
- How much does the Joseon Kingdom give when you bid gold?
- If Joseon Kingdom is removed before its doubled resources return, are they lost?
- Must you play the building or Wonder drawn through the Antikythera Mechanism?
- What are the 'next Age cards' on the Antikythera Mechanism?
- Where is a Wonder drawn through the Antikythera Mechanism placed?
- How does Zhu Xi work when another advisor replaces him, and what happens when that advisor is removed?
- Is Egypt's Old Kingdom an action that lets you remove your own advisor?
- With two advisors on Porcelain Tower, do Dynasty actions that remove an advisor make you discard both?
- Are there replacement cards for the misprinted Egypt Old Kingdom and Mali Empire Dynasty cards?
- What do the corrected Egypt Old Kingdom and Mali Empire action texts say?
- When does Egypt's Old Kingdom remove its X tokens?
- Are the private architects placed by a Dynasty card, such as Qin, taken from the supply?
- Can you play a nation whose other side is already in the game?
- Can you use the expansion's nation boards without its new cards?
- Is Nations: Dynasties compatible with the first edition of the base game?
- Where does a worker go when an effect returns it?
- Where do workers go when Uncle Tom's Cabin removes a building?
- In solo play, does the shadow roll after free actions granted by Wardenclyffe Tower?
- How long does the Arabian Nights Books bonus last?
- When you are passed over because of Arabian Nights, can you take Books more than once, and can you take other actions in between?
- Does Heian Period's +4 Books apply to Books from other effects, such as Arabian Nights' pass option?
- Does Carolus Linnaeus's extra VP apply every time you buy a Golden Age, or only once per round?
- Does Carolus Linnaeus add VP when you buy a Golden Age through the Abbasid Caliphate?
- Can more than one War card be bought in a round, and why are there extra War cards?
- Does Sun Tzu's first-turn double action combine with Jagiellonian Dynasty's extra action?
- If Japan has the least Stability when French Revolution resolves and its Emperor advisor cannot be removed, does Japan still lose the 2 VP?
- In solo play, can you remove an architect with the die and also remove a Turmoil card?
- Does Persia's Sassanid Empire let you take 2 Gold and avoid the Turmoil Stability penalty?
- At the end of a round, are Turmoil cards discarded in turn order, reverse order, or all at once?
- Does Japan's Edo Period protect your Solomon's Temple from removal when you are defeated?
- In solo play, does the Vikings' resource-taking ability still work?
- Can Japan place an advisor on Porcelain Tower?
- Does Japan's Emperor advisor ever let another advisor stay, and how does it add military strength?
- Are returning workers mandatory for Vesuvius and Northwest Passage, even if you gained no new workers that round?
- If an event forces a worker back onto a full population track, for example after Hawaii's token shortens it, where does the worker go?
- Where does the architect come from for Roman Republic's discard?
- Are the Victoria Falls colonies kept in a fourth row, and discarded after the round?
- When Domains of the Sea's 'buy a colony: discard it' applies, is the colony or the Dynasty card discarded, and do you keep a colony bought after Venice plays Domains of the Sea?
- Does the event bonus of +5 money per Colony bought count colonies that Domains of the Sea discards?
- If the Great Library's 'lost if least Stability' effect applies, do you discard the card or only lose its Golden Age bonus?
- What does the Great Library's Golden Age bonus do?
- When you buy Chopin from the player who owns it, do you pay the owner or the bank?
- Does Chopin's doubling of Book production also double the bonus Books from Hypatia?
- Are private architects used before or after the architects in the common pool?
- Does India's Varanasi income include workers that were never bought?
- If I buy a War, do I automatically win it?
- Does an Axumite Kingdom token stay in place when Ethiopia's dynasty is replaced?
- When Galileo lets me buy a card for free, do I still pay the Axumite Kingdom 3 gold?
- Can several Axumite Kingdom tokens be on the board at once?
- Does Sahara's +4 War strength count when you buy a War?
- Does Sahara's +4 Military strength change my player order?
- How does Koryo Kingdom's 'Against War' military bonus apply when a War is resolved?
- Do Koryo's and Elizabeth's War bonuses count for Peter the Great?
- How are buildings marked 'Max (worker)' scored at game end?
- Does Mongolia's special war bonus apply to every defeated player, even when Mongolia did not start the war?
- With Koryo Kingdom, do meeples on the Assassin count as military?
- Does Ethiopia's bonus Strength raise your military on the board?
- Do Hatshepsut's and the Sphinx's ready-Wonder bonuses apply when a Natural Wonder is discovered?
- Does Sparta's 'Exactly one Military' bonus mean exactly one military worker in total?
- Does Mali's +1 gold growth bonus apply if you do not choose gold for growth?
- If you must lose a resource you do not have, as with the Viking or Assassin effects, what happens?
- When can you take a worker with the Ming Dynasty card, and does it give +4 food?
- Does India's special action give 2 wheat during production or immediately?
- Does India's wonder let you undeploy workers during Production to gain its +1 wheat and +1 book?
- Does Mongolia start with an extra free population worker?
- If I acquire a Natural Wonder late in a round, can I finish its exploration turns and then take other actions?
- Does the Jagiellonian Dynasty work in solo play?
- Does Shwedagon Pagoda's Stability action stack when I repeat it on my turn?
- Can I switch back to my original dynasty power after using a Turmoil card?
- Does playing a Dynasty card replace the nation's special rule, and does the change last?
- How many Dynasty cards can a player play in a game?
- Can I buy colonies or natural wonders under the Japan Edo Period Dynasty card?
- Under the Mali Songhai Empire Dynasty card, who pays the extra 3 food during a famine?
- What does the Explore symbol on the Mount Ararat card mean?
- Where do I put a Dynasty card on the player board for Japan or the A-side nations?
- Are the Arabs' and Korea's extra bonuses in addition to the normal reward?
- Can I buy a Natural Wonder when I have no free Wonder space but could overbuild a normal Wonder?
- Does Grand Canyon score for natural wonders owned by other players?
- Does the Salem Witch Trials event remove Japan's Emperor?
- In a 5-player game, who loses gold when Terracotta Army completes?
- When you change dynasty, do your colonies stay on the board?
- Can Vesuvius take you below your starting number of workers, and where do those workers go?