Setup · Hansa Teutonica

Choose the player count, then tick steps off as you go. Ticks are kept on this device.

Choose a map

Choose the Hanseatic League, East, or Britannia board. For a first game, use the Hanseatic League side for your player count.
Place the three gold start markers on the marked taverns, with each arrow pointing to its route. Shuffle the remaining markers face down as the supply.
Put the black cube at 0 on the Completed Cities track. Each player puts one trader on 0 of the Prestige Points track.
Determine the start player before distributing the remaining traders.
Optional Mission Cards: shuffle the 9 cards, deal one face down to each player, and return the rest to the box.
Optional Emperor’s Favour: shuffle the six tiles face down, reveal a number equal to the players, and return the rest to the box.

Two-player variant

Optional official two-player variant: after ordinary setup, place one neutral trader on each route adjacent to Newcastle, Chester, York, Norwich, London, Plymouth and Cardiff, and on each of the three start-marker routes. Put the neutral score cube at 0. See Britannia for the variant’s turn and scoring rules.

Each player

Take one writing desk, 27 traders and 4 merchants in your colour. Leave the leftmost space empty on each ability: place 3 merchants on Book of Knowledge and 15 traders on the other four tracks.

Starting pieces

Place one merchant in your personal supply. The start player takes 5 traders into personal supply; in clockwise order each next player takes one more than the player before. Put all unclaimed traders in the general stock. Keep these supplies separate.

Choose a map

Choose the Hanseatic League, East, or Britannia board. For a first game, use the Hanseatic League side for your player count.
Place the three gold start markers on the marked taverns, with each arrow pointing to its route. Shuffle the remaining markers face down as the supply.
Put the black cube at 0 on the Completed Cities track. Each player puts one trader on 0 of the Prestige Points track.
Determine the start player before distributing the remaining traders.

Two-player variant

Optional official two-player variant: after ordinary setup, place one neutral trader on each route adjacent to Newcastle, Chester, York, Norwich, London, Plymouth and Cardiff, and on each of the three start-marker routes. Put the neutral score cube at 0. See Britannia for the variant’s turn and scoring rules.

Each player

Take one writing desk, 27 traders and 4 merchants in your colour. Leave the leftmost space empty on each ability: place 3 merchants on Book of Knowledge and 15 traders on the other four tracks.

Starting pieces

Place one merchant in your personal supply. The start player takes 5 traders into personal supply; in clockwise order each next player takes one more than the player before. Put all unclaimed traders in the general stock. Keep these supplies separate.

Choose a map

Choose the Hanseatic League, East, or Britannia board. For a first game, use the Hanseatic League side for your player count.
Place the three gold start markers on the marked taverns, with each arrow pointing to its route. Shuffle the remaining markers face down as the supply.
Put the black cube at 0 on the Completed Cities track. Each player puts one trader on 0 of the Prestige Points track.
Determine the start player before distributing the remaining traders.
Optional Mission Cards: shuffle the 9 cards, deal one face down to each player, and return the rest to the box.
Optional Emperor’s Favour: shuffle the six tiles face down, reveal a number equal to the players, and return the rest to the box.

Each player

Take one writing desk, 27 traders and 4 merchants in your colour. Leave the leftmost space empty on each ability: place 3 merchants on Book of Knowledge and 15 traders on the other four tracks.

Starting pieces

Place one merchant in your personal supply. The start player takes 5 traders into personal supply; in clockwise order each next player takes one more than the player before. Put all unclaimed traders in the general stock. Keep these supplies separate.

Choose a map

Choose the Hanseatic League, East, or Britannia board. For a first game, use the Hanseatic League side for your player count.
Place the three gold start markers on the marked taverns, with each arrow pointing to its route. Shuffle the remaining markers face down as the supply.
Put the black cube at 0 on the Completed Cities track. Each player puts one trader on 0 of the Prestige Points track.
Determine the start player before distributing the remaining traders.

Each player

Take one writing desk, 27 traders and 4 merchants in your colour. Leave the leftmost space empty on each ability: place 3 merchants on Book of Knowledge and 15 traders on the other four tracks.

Starting pieces

Place one merchant in your personal supply. The start player takes 5 traders into personal supply; in clockwise order each next player takes one more than the player before. Put all unclaimed traders in the general stock. Keep these supplies separate.

Choose a map

Choose the Hanseatic League, East, or Britannia board. For a first game, use the Hanseatic League side for your player count.
Place the three gold start markers on the marked taverns, with each arrow pointing to its route. Shuffle the remaining markers face down as the supply.
Put the black cube at 0 on the Completed Cities track. Each player puts one trader on 0 of the Prestige Points track.
Determine the start player before distributing the remaining traders.
Optional Mission Cards: shuffle the 9 cards, deal one face down to each player, and return the rest to the box.
Optional Emperor’s Favour: shuffle the six tiles face down, reveal a number equal to the players, and return the rest to the box.

Each player

Take one writing desk, 27 traders and 4 merchants in your colour. Leave the leftmost space empty on each ability: place 3 merchants on Book of Knowledge and 15 traders on the other four tracks.

Starting pieces

Place one merchant in your personal supply. The start player takes 5 traders into personal supply; in clockwise order each next player takes one more than the player before. Put all unclaimed traders in the general stock. Keep these supplies separate.

Choose a map

Choose the Hanseatic League, East, or Britannia board. For a first game, use the Hanseatic League side for your player count.
Place the three gold start markers on the marked taverns, with each arrow pointing to its route. Shuffle the remaining markers face down as the supply.
Put the black cube at 0 on the Completed Cities track. Each player puts one trader on 0 of the Prestige Points track.
Determine the start player before distributing the remaining traders.

Each player

Take one writing desk, 27 traders and 4 merchants in your colour. Leave the leftmost space empty on each ability: place 3 merchants on Book of Knowledge and 15 traders on the other four tracks.

Starting pieces

Place one merchant in your personal supply. The start player takes 5 traders into personal supply; in clockwise order each next player takes one more than the player before. Put all unclaimed traders in the general stock. Keep these supplies separate.

Choose a map

Choose the Hanseatic League, East, or Britannia board. For a first game, use the Hanseatic League side for your player count.
Place the three gold start markers on the marked taverns, with each arrow pointing to its route. Shuffle the remaining markers face down as the supply.
Put the black cube at 0 on the Completed Cities track. Each player puts one trader on 0 of the Prestige Points track.
Determine the start player before distributing the remaining traders.
Optional Mission Cards: shuffle the 9 cards, deal one face down to each player, and return the rest to the box.
Optional Emperor’s Favour: shuffle the six tiles face down, reveal a number equal to the players, and return the rest to the box.

Each player

Take one writing desk, 27 traders and 4 merchants in your colour. Leave the leftmost space empty on each ability: place 3 merchants on Book of Knowledge and 15 traders on the other four tracks.

Starting pieces

Place one merchant in your personal supply. The start player takes 5 traders into personal supply; in clockwise order each next player takes one more than the player before. Put all unclaimed traders in the general stock. Keep these supplies separate.

Choose a map

Choose the Hanseatic League, East, or Britannia board. For a first game, use the Hanseatic League side for your player count.
Place the three gold start markers on the marked taverns, with each arrow pointing to its route. Shuffle the remaining markers face down as the supply.
Put the black cube at 0 on the Completed Cities track. Each player puts one trader on 0 of the Prestige Points track.
Determine the start player before distributing the remaining traders.

Each player

Take one writing desk, 27 traders and 4 merchants in your colour. Leave the leftmost space empty on each ability: place 3 merchants on Book of Knowledge and 15 traders on the other four tracks.

Starting pieces

Place one merchant in your personal supply. The start player takes 5 traders into personal supply; in clockwise order each next player takes one more than the player before. Put all unclaimed traders in the general stock. Keep these supplies separate.