Cards & Components

The boards, decks, tiles and pieces in the second edition.

Alley Cat Games press photo showing the Calimala board, Ship board, player boards, pieces and reference card

This final-edition photo is a component overview. It does not make the individual Action-card or tile faces readable enough to audit.

Boards

Component	What it does
Double-sided game board	City Grid, City Council, action spaces, city and church scoring areas, Statue spaces and the VP track; use the appropriate side for player count.
Player board	Holds your resources, cloth workshops, Ship spaces and build costs.
Reference card	Summarizes turns and worker actions.
Intrigue board [Intrigue]	Holds the Cardinal and Emperor areas and faction track.

Cards

Component	What it does
45 Action cards	Allow the pictured action outside the normal grid action sequence. There are nine action types; the five starting choices are Wood, Brick, Weave, Build and Marble.
10 Scoring cards	Score area majorities at the end of the game.
9 Family cards [Intrigue]	Give a family a unique power and, for some cards, a setup change.

Individual card faces: To be added.

Tiles

Component	What it does
8 Action tiles	Place face up on the City Grid to determine its actions.
15 Scoring tiles	Determine the area checked when a worker enters the Council.
10 Workshop tiles	Increase the amount of cloth you can weave.
15 Ship tiles	Increase your cloth delivery capacity to port cities.
[Intrigue] 4 Intrigue Action tiles	Add optional political actions to the empty City Grid spaces.
[Intrigue] Church and Palazzo Vecchio overlays	Add Artwork spaces to scoring areas.
[Intrigue] 6 Banking tiles	Add resource spaces in the six cities.

Individual tile faces: To be added.

Tokens & pieces

Component	What it does
60 Family Member tiles	12 in each of five colours; place workers and reactivate them when covered.
11 Contractor tiles	Neutral workers that double their two adjacent actions and do not reactivate.
250 player cubes	50 in each of five colours; represent resources, cloth, contributions and city influence.
15 Trade Houses	Three in each player colour; build one in each eligible trade city.
5 Score markers	Track Victory Points.
Active Player marker	Shows whose placement turn is current.
[Intrigue] 10 Faction markers	Two in each player colour; show political alignment on the Intrigue board.
[Intrigue] 5 neutral Hirelings per player in two-player setup	Neutral workers whose presence changes reactivation and cube placement rules.

Icons

The action and scoring symbols appear on the tiles, cards and player boards. The rulebook’s reference-card and scoring summaries explain them; individual symbol illustrations: To be added.