Learn Hansa Teutonica
Learn the game in 5 short steps. Everything links to the full rules.
The merchant contest
Build a reputation
You are merchants competing to build offices, connect cities, improve your abilities and gather prestige. The player with the most prestige after final scoring wins.
Your main loop is to place pieces on trade routes, claim a full route, then choose a reward that improves your network or your options.
Read the map
Cities and routes
Cities contain square and round offices. Lines between cities are trade routes, each with two to four connection points. Fill every point with your pieces to make the route ready for a separate claim action.
Manage your pieces
Keep two supplies
Your personal supply holds the pieces you can spend on actions. The general stock is shared. Income moves pieces from stock to your personal supply; it does not recover them from the board.
Your writing desk begins with fifteen traders and three merchants on its ability tracks. Develop an ability to free a piece into your personal supply and improve that ability.
Claim routes in order
Route claim is a separate action
After all route spaces hold only your pieces, spend one action to claim it. First score the players who control the endpoint cities. Take the marker next, then choose at most one reward: establish an office, improve an ability, or score Coellen.
Watch the end game
Points come from more than the track
Build a connected set of offices and develop City Keys to multiply it. Bonus markers, city control and fully developed abilities add points too. Watch for a player reaching twenty, the marker supply running out, or the tenth city being completed.