Setup

(TODO: Picture of a fully setup game)

Setting Up the Map

The map is Triskell shaped.

1. Locate the Capital Tile. Place it at the center of the table.
2. Locate the Bandit Tiles. Place them around the Capital Tile. Bandit Tiles flee toward the Capital Tile.
3. Locate the remaining Wolf Tiles. They should be placed so that the Valley Tile allows fleeing toward the Wolf Tribe ’s Bandit Tile and the Cordillera Tile toward the Valley Tile.
4. Locate the remaining Cat Tiles. They should be placed so that the Meadow Tile allows fleeing toward the Cat Tribe ’s Bandit Tile and the Farmland Tile toward the Meadow Tile.
5. Locate the remaining Fox Tiles. They should be placed so that the Thicket Tile allows fleeing toward the Fox Tribe ’s Bandit Tile and the Timberland Tile toward the Thicket Tile.
6. Place the Location of Interest marker on a random Bandit Tile.

Setting Up the Bandits

1. Place 1 Attribute Board next to each Bandit Tile. These are the Bandit Attribute Board.
2. Place 1 Bandit on each Bandit Tile.
3. Add another Bandit to the Bandit Tile with the Location of Interest marker.
4. Place 1 Bandit Cube on the left-most spot of each Bandit Attribute Board’s Attribute tracker.
5. Place the Bandit Upgrade Cards deck close to the map, face down. Shuffle it.
6. Place the Bandit Battlecards deck close to the map, face down.
7. Place the Bandit Tracker somewhere on the table, add 3 copper cubes to it.
8. Draw 1 Bandit Upgrade Card for each Bandit Attribute Board and improve their Attributes accordingly.

Setting Up Shared Components

1. Place the Commoner Workplaces, Artisan Workplaces, and Noble Workplaces decks somewhere on the table, face down. Shuffle them individually. Plan for each deck to have its own discard pile.
2. Place the Laws deck somewhere on the table, face up. Players should be able to browse this deck.
3. Place the Sovereign Workplace (Coronation Ceremony) face up somewhere visible to all players.
4. Place the Player Turn Order board somewhere visible to all players.
5. Place the Season Counter board somewhere visible to all players.
6. Place a Bandit Cube on the top spot. During this Season, they win action phase ties, but lose battle phase ones.
7. Optionally, place helper cards next to the component they are relevant to.

Setting Up Players

Each player:

1. Takes their Player Cube .
2. Places a Resources Board in front of them.
3. Places a Attribute Board next to it.
4. Takes their Knight and places them in their Castle.
5. Takes their Battlecards. These are kept face down.
6. Places one of their Cubes on the left-most track of each of their Attributes.
7. Gains 1 Worker of each Tribe.
8. Gains 3 Wheat , 3 Tree , and 3 Stone .
9. Draw 3 Commoner Workplace .

Players have to be able to own 9 Workplace cards, arranged in a 3x3 grid.

Starting

Randomly choose the Player Turn Order, denoted by each player having their Cube in that order, clockwise from the Bandit Cube . Perform the Workplace drafting step.

In turn order, each player gains 1 Worker the Tribe of their choice.

The first Season is now starting.