Cards & Components

Every face of John Company: Second Edition, from the board and enterprises to offices, prestige, blackmail, laws, failure cards, scenarios, promises, events, firms and the Crown.

Every distinct face of the game, grouped by type. Each row says what the card does and links to the rule that uses it.

Pictures: Wehrlegig Games’ print-and-play files for John Company: Second Edition, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (product page).

Boards

Picture	Card
	Game board — five prize boxes on the left, Company tracks and card boxes in the middle, the map of India on the right. A red ribbon runs along the top and bottom and shows the order of phases and offices. The board · Map of India

Cards

Enterprises

58 small enterprise cards. Each shows a cost (top left), a type badge (top right), an income and votes.

Picture	Card
	Atlas — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Britannia — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Constant Friend — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Diligence — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Eliza — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Fortitude — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Ganges — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Hampshire — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Indefatigable — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	James — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	King George — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Lady Flora — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Neptune — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Obra Dinn — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Queen Charlotte — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Recovery — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Samaritan — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Thistleworth — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Union — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Walpole — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	York — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Zenobia — shipyard · Cost: £2 · Bonus: £1 while its ship is fitted · Votes: 1 . Its matching ship sits on the card until it is fitted. Purchase shipyard
	Workshop (20) — Type: manufacturing · Cost: £5 · Income: £1 · Votes: 2 · If the Company fails: 1 . Purchase workshop · Company failure
	Luxury (16) — Type: social · Cost: £4 · Victory points: 2 · Window: 1 . Purchase luxury

Office cards

17 offices. A vacant office goes face down on the Vacant Offices box. Some offices start out of play.

How to read the front:

• Top: the office name and its symbol. The number in the corner is the card number.
• Hiring number: the same number appears on the back. It is the order in which offices are filled. Hiring
• Actions: the text says what the office may do and in what order (“first”, “then”, “lastly”).
• Dice pool: you roll one die per £1 you spend from the office treasury. Governors instead start with a printed number of dice that shrinks after each check. Checks
• Treasury: Presidents and the Manager of Shipping spend money from their own office treasury.

How to read the back:

• Chosen by: who picks the new officeholder.
• Candidates: which pieces may be picked, in order. If there are none, the next group is used. Who hires whom

Picture	Card
	Chairman (1) — Seeks Company debt, up to the track maximum. More than 3 needs the Court’s approval. Gets £5 per debt marker, then allocates the Company Balance. Adds 1 to this office’s attrition roll. Chosen by: Court of Directors. Candidates: pieces in the Court (Company shares). Chairman · Chairman election
	Director of Trade (2) — Takes Special Envoy actions with a dice pool of £1 per die. On a success, opens one order in a region the Company does not control, or opens trade with China. Then may transfer two pieces (a ship piece or a writer). Chosen by: Chairman. Candidates: any office except Governors and Chairman. If none, writers. Director of Trade · Special envoy
	Manager of Shipping (3) — Fits ships until the office has £2 or less left. Fitting costs £2 (black ship), £3 (blue ship) or £5 (red Company ship, only when all player ships are fitted). Fitted ships go in any sea zone. Chosen by: Chairman. Candidates: writers. Manager of Shipping
	Military Affairs (4) — May transfer two pieces (an officer or a regiment). Then assigns officers-in-training to armies. Lastly appoints Commanders. Chosen by: Chairman. Candidates: Commanders; if none, officers; if none, officers-in-training. Military affairs · Commanders
	President of Bombay (5) — Decides the order of operations and takes Trade actions. Dice pool: £1 per die, minus one die for each other region declared. On a success, fills orders and raises the Company Balance. You gain £1 per order, and players gain £1 for each writer there. No second Trade after a success. Chosen by: Director of Trade. Candidates: writers and Governors of this Presidency. Presidencies · Trade
	President of Madras (6) — Same Trade action as Bombay, for the Madras Presidency. Chosen by: Director of Trade. Candidates: writers and Governors of this Presidency. Presidencies · Trade
	President of Bengal (7) — Same Trade action as Bombay, for the Bengal Presidency. Chosen by: Director of Trade. Candidates: writers and Governors of this Presidency. Presidencies · Trade
	Superintendent of Trade in China (8) — Takes one Trade in China action. The dice pool is the ships in the office. On a success, raises the Company Balance by £4 per export icon in controlled regions. You gain £1 per export icon there. Out of play until the Envoy to China law is passed. Chosen by: Chairman. Candidates: writers. Superintendent of Trade in China
	Governor of Bombay (9) — Takes Administer actions. Initial dice pool: 3, lowered after each check. On a success you earn £1 (or £2) and choose a benefit; each tax after the first adds unrest. On a failure, unrest is added. Chosen by: President of Bombay. Candidates: writers and officers in this Presidency. Governors · Administer
	Governor of Madras (10) — Administer actions. Initial dice pool: 4. Chosen by: President of Madras. Candidates: writers and officers in this Presidency. Governors · Administer
	Governor of Bengal (11) — Administer actions. Initial dice pool: 4. Chosen by: President of Bengal. Candidates: writers and officers in this Presidency. Governors · Administer
	Governor of Punjab (12) — Administer actions. Initial dice pool: 3. Chosen by: its President. Candidates: writers and officers in this Presidency. Governors · Administer
	Governor of Delhi (13) — Administer actions. Initial dice pool: 4. Chosen by: its President. Candidates: writers and officers in this Presidency. Governors · Administer
	Governor of Maratha (14) — Administer actions. Initial dice pool: 3. Chosen by: its President. Candidates: writers and officers in this Presidency. Governors · Administer
	Governor of Hyderabad (15) — Administer actions. Initial dice pool: 3. Chosen by: its President. Candidates: writers and officers in this Presidency. Governors · Administer
	Governor of Mysore (16) — Administer actions. Initial dice pool: 3. Chosen by: its President. Candidates: writers and officers in this Presidency. Governors · Administer
	Governor General (2) — Replaces the Director of Trade when the law passes. First raises the Company Balance by £3 for each Company-controlled region. Then may take Govern actions: dice pool £1 per die, add unrest in each Company region for each 6 rolled, and a failure adds unrest in every Company region. After a success, no more Governing this turn. Chosen by: Chairman. Candidates: any office except the Chairman. If none, writers. Governor General

Prestige cards

Won in the London Season. Prestige cards

Spouses

Each spouse is worth victory points (the diamond badge) and cannot be transferred. The purple number is a retirement discount you can use once per London Season and once at final scoring. Most spouses also carry a restriction for the rest of the game. Spouses

Picture	Card
	Mr. Rochester — Victory points: 2 · Discount: -£2. You can no longer enlist writers as your family action. The extra writer from the Tenure Limits law is still allowed. Enlist writer
	Esther Summerson — Victory points: 2 · Discount: -£1. You can no longer take or own blackmail cards. Face-down ones must be traded or discarded. Face-up ones are discarded. Blackmail cards
	John Thorpe — Victory points: 2 · Discount: -£2. You can no longer buy or own workshops. Any you have must be traded or discarded. Purchase workshop
	Violet Effingham — Victory points: 3 · Discount: -£1. You can no longer buy or own shipyards. Any you have must be traded or discarded. Fitted ships from discarded shipyards stay in play. Purchase shipyard
	Joseph Sedley — Victory points: 2 · Discount: -£1. You can no longer seek or own Company shares. If you are Chairman, your piece goes back to the Court as a share and the office is vacated. Shares you hold must be traded or removed. Seek share
	Becky Sharp — Victory points: 2 · Discount: none. When you take a prestige card, you may take the top card of the deck instead, as long as at least one card is left in the display. Prestige cards
	William Collins — Victory points: 2 · Discount: -£1. You can no longer enlist officers as your family action. The extra officer from the Army Spending law is still allowed. Enlist officer
	Lady Glencora — Victory points: 2 · Discount: -£2. Remove your opportunity marker from the game. You never place it when you take an action. You can still gain extra actions from laws and the extra writer when there are 4 or more vacancies. Family actions
	Lady Newcome — Victory points: 3 · Discount: -£2. Your enterprises no longer have vote icons. Your “Vote with my enterprises” promise leaves the game, even in another player’s hands. Enterprises you hand to others cannot vote that turn. Voting · Promise cards
	Lord Highgate — Victory points: 3 · Discount: -£2. You may only retire to the 8 or 12 victory point prizes. Retirements · Prizes

Prestige enterprises

Count as enterprises of the type shown in the badge. They can be transferred. They are worth power at final scoring like other enterprises of their type, and policies affect them. Prestige enterprises

Picture	Card
	Foundry — Type: manufacturing. Each time any player buys a workshop, or a regiment is added to an Army, you take £1 from the bank. Purchase workshop
	Labour Newspaper — Type: manufacturing. Votes: 4 when voting on a manufacturing or shipping policy. Voting
	Shipbuilders — Type: shipping. Whenever the Manager of Shipping buys an extra ship or a Company ship, you take £1 from the bank for each. Manager of Shipping
	Tax Collectors — Type: manufacturing. With the Prime Minister’s consent, you may treat the proposed policy as if it had one more window tax. Decide before voting starts. If you win a vote as Opposition Leader, you may add one more window tax to the policy. Policies
	Rotten Borough (3 copies) — Type: social · Votes: 3 . Voting
	Scottish Castle — Type: social · Badge: 3 · Windows: 2 . No special power. Windows count as tie-breakers for taking prestige cards. Prestige cards
	Social Magazine — Type: social. Votes: 4 when voting on a social or Company share policy. Voting
	Stock Broker — Type: social. When you seek shares, treat every space as costing £1. Others may use this power with your permission. Seek share

Blackmail cards

Each one is a single-use effect. After use it goes face up in your area and cannot be transferred. Every blackmail card you hold, face up or down, counts for power at final scoring. The round badge is its power value. They are drawn face down in the London Season. Blackmail cards

Picture	Card
	The Prime Minister’s Ear — Power: 2 . Play any time before the Family phase to swap two adjacent power markers. Sequence of play
	Company Fraud — Power: none shown. Play at the start of the Revenue phase. Roll one die per officeholder you have. Lower the Company Balance by twice the highest roll (not below zero) and take that much from the bank. Revenue
	Letters of Introduction — Power: 1 . Play when you retire pieces, in the London Season or at final scoring. Act as if you also had retirement discounts equal to those on every other player’s spouses. Retirements
	Scandal on Leadenhall Street — Power: 2 . Play when taken from the display, or later on any turn after Revenue. Force any office that is not a President, Governor or Governor General to vacate with no retirement. Hiring
	Scandal in India — Power: 2 . Play when taken from the display, or later on any turn after Revenue. Force a President or Governor (or Governor General) to vacate with no retirement. Hiring
	Hiring Preference — Power: 1 . Play during hiring when you are a candidate. The hiring player must pick you. You may ignore the Nepotism rule. Nepotism
	Envoy to the Mughals — Power: none shown. Play any time on a turn before Events in India. Move the Elephant to any legal position, then take £ equal to the highest open order in the region with the Elephant’s tail. The Elephant
	Mercantile Connection — Power: 1 . Play after a check. Force a President or firm to reroll a Trade roll with half as many dice, rounded down. Zero dice counts as a failure. Checks · Trade
	Diplomatic Connection — Power: 2 . Play after a check. Force a Commander to reroll a Deploy roll with half as many dice, rounded down. Zero dice counts as a failure. Deploy
	Man on the Inside — Power: 1 . Play to cancel a blackmail card as it is played. The cancelled card goes face up in your area. It cannot cancel Letters of Introduction at final scoring. Blackmail cards

Law cards

26 laws. The Prime Minister picks one in Parliament. Dilemma cards (red bars) are forced on the table and say what happens if passed or failed. The bottom band shows the policy icon and the starting votes (positive for, negative against). Extra action laws give every player a bonus family action while in force. Choosing a law · Policies

Policy icons: tax, power, bonus, manufacturing, shipping, social, Company share.

Picture	Card
	Army Spending — Policy icon: tax · Votes: -4. When passed, place 2 regiments in each Army. Extra action: enlist an officer after your family action. Enlist officer
	Board of Control — Policy icon: power · Votes: 0. Once per turn, after any office except the Chairman has acted, the Prime Minister may remove its officeholder. The office goes to Vacant Offices.
	Calico Acts — Policy icon: manufacturing · Votes: +1. When passed, each player gains £2 per manufacturing enterprise. Extra action: buy a workshop. At the start of Revenue, lower the Company Balance by £1 for every £7, until deregulation. Purchase workshop
	Company Aids Government — Policy icon: power · Votes: +1. Advance the value of Company shares one step, for example from +1/-1 VP to +2/-2 VP. Each Company debt now costs £2 in Expenses. Company shares
	Debt Restructure — Policy icon: tax · Votes: -3. Move the Company Debt marker to its leftmost space. Extra action: seek a share. Seek share
	Envoy to China — Policy icon: shipping · Votes: -3. Trade in China is worth £5 per export icon. If the office does not exist yet, create the Superintendent of Trade in China. Superintendent of Trade in China
	Governor General — Policy icon: shipping · Votes: +1. The Director of Trade becomes the Governor General. All Governors become pensioners. Both office cards leave the game. Company ships on regions (not finished by Governors) return to the supply. Governor General
	Inclosure Acts — Policy icon: bonus · Votes: -4. Each family member on a prize now earns its family £1 in the Bonuses phase. Bonuses
	Industry Subsidy — Policy icon: tax · Votes: -3. If your opportunity token is not on the workshop space, the purchase-workshop action costs £3 instead of £5. Not for workshops bought with Calico Acts. Discard it if deregulation happens. Purchase workshop
	Military Oversight — Policy icon: Company share · Votes: +5. Right after Military Affairs acts, the Prime Minister may demote one Commander to officer, then appoint a new Commander from that army’s officers, following hiring and Nepotism. Military affairs
	Royal Protection — Policy icon: social · Votes: -3. When the Company would take emergency loans, the Chairman may discard this card to avoid them and cancel the remaining expenses. Standing still drops if expectations are missed. Revenue
	Sepoy Recruitment — Policy icon: bonus · Votes: -3. Regiments no longer add to Company expenses. In attacks against the Company, each unrest adds +1 strength. Revenue
	Ship Subsidy — Policy icon: tax · Votes: -3. Fitting player ships costs £2 for the Manager of Shipping and for private firms. Extra action: buy a shipyard. Purchase shipyard
	Tenure Limits — Policy icon: power · Votes: 0. The Chairman always retires in the first step of the London Season. Extra action: gain one writer after any family action other than enlist writer. Retirements
	Trade Regulations — Policy icon: shipping · Votes: -1. Each President’s bonus goes to the Company Balance. Trade
	Treasure Reform — Policy icon: Company share · Votes: -3. All loot now goes to the Company Balance. Loot
	Zamindar Taxes — Policy icon: Company share · Votes: -2. Every Governor adds one die to their pool. Failed Administer actions add 2 unrest instead of 1. With a Governor General, a successful Govern pays £3 more, but a failed one adds 2 unrest per region. Administer
	Window Tax Repeal — Policy icon: social · Votes: -5. Players no longer pay window taxes. Tax Collectors may still add one window tax exempt from this law. Extra action: buy a luxury. Purchase luxury
	Writer Graft Reform — Policy icon: power · Votes: 0. Writer bonuses go to the Company Balance instead. Writers still earn from Windfall. Discard Writer Privileges if it is in effect. Bonuses
	Writer Privileges — Policy icon: manufacturing · Votes: -3. Players gain £1 more for each of their writers on an order in India. Discard Writer Graft Reform if it is in effect. Adds 5 to the starting support when voting on deregulation. Vote to deregulate
	Masses Demand Franchise! (dilemma) — Policy icon: social · Votes: +1. If passed, each Rotten Borough is worth only one vote and votes cost £2 instead of £1. If failed, nothing happens. Voting
	Old Ideas Made New! (dilemma) — No policy icon or votes. Search the discard pile and pick any law (a dilemma is allowed). After the vote, shuffle all discards, this turn’s draws and this card into the deck. With an empty discard pile, shuffle it back and draw again. Choosing a law
	Public Demands Impeachment! (dilemma) — Policy icon: power · Votes: +1. The Prime Minister picks one officeholder. If passed, that piece returns to supply and the office goes to Vacant Offices. If failed, Company Standing drops one space, which may cause failure. Resolving the vote
	Relief Demanded for Indian Famine! (dilemma) — Policy icon: tax · Votes: +1. If passed, the policy consequence happens twice. If failed, Turmoil happens in each home region and every Company region gains 1 unrest. Turmoil
	War Against France! (dilemma) — Policy icon: tax · Votes: +1. If passed, the Prime Minister picks 3 non-extra ships and 3 officers or regiments, which all go back to their supplies. If failed, roll the storm die and resolve a Foreign Invasion in the home regions of any sea zone shown. Foreign invasion
	Deregulation (special session) — Called at the start of a turn when Standing or Debt is on a lined space. It must be called when one is on a starred space. No policy is proposed. Starting support is +2 or +6 depending on the track. If passed, the Company loses its monopoly, firms may start, half the debt is cleared and Standing moves to the “S” space. If it fails, set it aside. Vote to deregulate · Firms
	Deregulation (back) — Debtor’s Prison — Shows that the Deregulation rules are in effect. The Debtor’s Prison space holds -1 pieces. Debtor’s prison

Company failure cards

If the Company fails, one of six cards is drawn at random and resolved. Company failure

Picture	Card
	Court of Directors Blameless! — Treat Company shares as worth what they would be if the Company had succeeded.
	Careless Shipbuilders Indicted! — Each player loses 1 for each shipyard they own.
	Industry’s Greed Condemned! — Workshops score nothing. If deregulated, firm shares and pieces in Debtor’s Prison score nothing either.
	Parliament Exposed! — Each player loses 1 per passed law token. Then the Prime Minister loses 2 .
	Military Rebuked! — Each player loses half (rounded down) of the sum of their officers, Commanders and trophies in .
	The British Despots of India! — Each player loses 2 per Governor and 4 for a Governor General. Anyone whose Governor was removed in Region Loss on the final turn loses 2 for each.

Scenario and setup cards

Three scenarios, each with a scenario card and 18 matching setup cards. Pick the scenario, then deal the setup cards evenly. With 5 players add 3 extra cards of that scenario, with 6 add 6. Each player takes everything on their cards. Setup

The scenario back shows the starting map of India: domes with tower levels, closed orders, the Elephant, empire flags and Governor overlays.

Picture	Card
	1710 — Early Company. Standing above the £10 expectations, Debt 0. £3 in every Company treasury. Royal Protection is in force. 1 regiment each in Bombay, Madras and Bengal. No Company ships. Setup
	1758 — Company Under Siege. Standing above the £12 expectations, Debt 3. £4 in every treasury. Calico Acts is in force. 1 regiment each in Bombay, Madras and Bengal. 1 Company ship in the East Indian sea zone. Bengal control token on the Bengal Presidency. Setup
	1813 — Post Monopoly. Standing above the £10 expectations, Debt 0. £3 in every treasury. Military Oversight, Deregulation (Debtor’s Prison side) and Calico Acts are in force. Governor General law goes back to the box. 2 regiments per Army, 1 Company ship per sea zone. Company share VP token on the +2/-2 side. China office placed by the board. Bombay, Madras and Bengal control tokens in place. Setup
	Setup card, 1710 example — Take the Chairman office, a Company share and £1. Setup
	Setup card, 1758 example — Take the Chairman office, a Company share and £3. Setup
	Setup card, 1813 example — Take the Chairman office, a Company share, a family member on the 2 prize (2 ) and £2. Setup

Setup card icons:

• Office symbol and name: place a family member on that office and take its card.
• £ coin: take that much from the bank.
• Heart with EVIC: place a family member in the Court of Directors. It is now a Company share.
• Shipyard: take a shipyard. Place its ship in the sea zone shown, or on the shipyard if unfitted.
• Workshop: take a workshop.
• Luxury: take a luxury. Raise your victory point marker by 2 for each starting luxury.
• Writer, officer, officer-in-training: put the family piece in the matching box on the board.
• Commander: put the piece on the matching slot in its Army. Commanders have no office card.
• Number on a prize: a family member starts on that prize.

Promise cards

Each family has the same five promise cards. They are stamped with the guarantor’s family name. You can trade them with any player, return them to the guarantor or give them to a third party. Promise cards · Negotiation

Picture	Card
	My consent for nepotism. A pledge of the guarantor’s consent to a Nepotism hire. Nepotism
	Take £2 or less from me. A pledge that the holder may take up to £2 from the guarantor. Negotiation
	Take my card from the London Season Display. A pledge that the holder gets the guarantor’s pick from the London Season Display. Prestige cards
	Take my officeholder’s bonus. A pledge that the holder collects the guarantor’s officeholder bonus. Bonuses
	Vote with my enterprises as if you owned them. A pledge that the holder votes with the guarantor’s enterprises as if they were the holder’s own. Voting

Firm strategy cards

Used with deregulation. Each family has four, one per strategy. The pictures show the Hastings family. The other five families have the same four. Firm strategy · Firms

Picture	Card
	E — East — Sail the East Indian Ocean and fill orders starting from the home port of Bengal.
	W — West — Sail the West Indian Ocean and fill orders starting from the home port of Bombay.
	S — South — Sail the South Indian Ocean and fill orders starting from the home port of Madras.
	Hobnob — The firm still pays expenses after the firms that trade, but does not change where its dividend cube sits.

The Crown (solo and two players)

10 Crown AI cards, used in the solo and two-player games. Flip one for each Crown decision. AI cards · The Crown · Favors and promise cubes

How to read an AI card:

• Number and shaded slot (top): the card in a three-card spread to pick. If it is missing, take the next card to the right and wrap around.
• Black arrow (1st) and white arrow (2nd): the Presidency to pick first and second. The third is the one left over.
• Hand: the direction to choose.
• Table: a game fact and the animal climate it gives the Crown. Peacock, lion, bull, bear and stag are the five climates.
• Strip at the bottom: the order in which the Crown picks regions, left to right.

Picture	Card
	AI 1 — Checks Company Expectations. £4 gives peacock, £6 lion, £8+ bull. Shaded slot: left.
	AI 2 — Checks Presidencies with control of a region. 0-1 gives peacock, 2 bear, 3 bull. Shaded slot: middle.
	AI 3 — Checks Company Debt. 0 gives stag, 1-4 bull, 5+ peacock. Shaded slot: right.
	AI 4 — Checks Company Expectations. £4 or £6 gives bear, £8 stag, £10+ bull. Shaded slot: left.
	AI 5 — Checks seas with 2 or more ships. 0-1 gives lion, 2 stag, 3 bull. Shaded slot: middle.
	AI 6 — Checks total Company shares. 0-6 gives bull (peacock under deregulation), 7-8 bear, 9+ lion. Shaded slot: right.
	AI 7 — Checks Crown treasury. £0-7 gives bear, £8-16 peacock, £17+ stag. Shaded slot: left.
	AI 8 — Checks Presidencies with 2 or more Crown writers. 0 gives peacock, 1-2 stag, 3 lion. Shaded slot: middle.
	AI 9 — Checks Crown Commanders. 0 gives lion, 1-2 bear, 3 peacock. Shaded slot: right.
	AI 10 — Checks fitted ships. 0-5 gives lion, 6-8 stag, 9+ bear. Shaded slot: middle.

Player aids

Picture	Card
	Pocket Guide to India — Lists the events behind each region emblem, with their storm shapes. Events in India
	Commander Actions — Reminder for a Commander’s turn: first buy local alliances with your President’s consent and funds, then Deploy. Choose a legal target and make a check. Roll for each officer used and remove it on a 6. On a success, divide loot and take trophies equal to the target’s tower levels, then remove closed orders, clear unrest and form a governorship if it applies. On a catastrophic failure, return half your trophies (rounded up) and the Commander. Deploy · Local alliances

Tiles

Event tiles

20 tiles. One side is the event, the other side shows a region. Tiles are drawn in the Events in India phase. Events in India

The black shape (circle, triangle or square) on a tile is its storm shape. It is checked against the storm die. “Top of stack: Invade or Rebel?” tells you what happens next when no imperial ambitions apply.

Event side

Picture	Card
	Crisis -1 (circle) — Resolve the Crisis at -1. Punjab. Crisis
	Crisis +0 (triangle) — Resolve the Crisis at +0. Delhi. Crisis
	Crisis +1 (square) — Resolve the Crisis at +1. Bombay. Crisis
	Crisis +1 (triangle) — Resolve the Crisis at +1. Bengal. Crisis
	Crisis +2 (square) — Resolve the Crisis at +2. Mysore. Crisis
	Crisis +3 (circle) — Resolve the Crisis at +3. Maratha. Crisis
	Foreign Invasion — Roll the storm die and resolve an Invasion in each region linked to a storm (if none, use the top event tile). Roll a die per region for strength. If the region falls, close every order there and set its strength to half the roll, rounded down. Maratha. Foreign invasion
	Leader +2 (triangle) — Strengthen the region if sovereign, or +2 Rebellion if dominated. Bengal. Leader
	Leader +2 (square) — Strengthen the region if sovereign, or +2 Rebellion if dominated. Bombay. Leader
	Leader +3 (circle) — Strengthen the region if sovereign, or +3 Rebellion if dominated. Punjab. Leader
	Leader +4 (triangle) — Strengthen the region if sovereign, or +4 Rebellion if dominated. Hyderabad. Leader
	Peace (square) — If the Elephant is fully in a Company-controlled region, clear unrest and open all orders instead. Mysore. Peace
	Peace (triangle) — Same effect. Madras. Peace
	Shuffle (circle) — Shuffle this tile into the deck. Then shuffle the discards and put them on top. Madras. Shuffle
	Turmoil (4 tiles, copy A) — Close the northernmost open order. If all are closed, do a Cascade: close orders in connected regions. Punjab. Turmoil · Cascade
	Turmoil (copy B) — Same effect. Delhi. Turmoil
	Turmoil (copy C) — Same effect. Bombay. Turmoil
	Turmoil (copy D) — Same effect. Maratha. Turmoil
	Windfall (copy A) — Gain £1 for each writer in this region and in adjacent regions. Hyderabad. Windfall
	Windfall (copy B) — Same effect. Madras. Windfall

Region side

The other face of each tile is a region emblem. It tells you where the event happens. The Pocket Guide to India lists which events sit behind each emblem. Events in India · Region loss

Picture	Card
	Punjab — Crisis -1, Turmoil, Leader +3.
	Delhi — Crisis +0, Turmoil.
	Bengal — Crisis +1, Leader +2.
	Bombay — Crisis +1, Turmoil, Leader +2.
	Maratha — Crisis +3, Turmoil, Foreign Invasion.
	Hyderabad — Windfall, Leader +4.
	Mysore — Crisis +2, Peace.
	Madras — Windfall, Shuffle, Peace.

Tokens & pieces

Each family’s pieces, the Company’s ships, the Elephant, tower levels, domes and flags, markers and dice are described on How to Play.

Icons

Icon	Meaning
	Writer
	Officer
	Officer-in-training
	Commander
	Power
	Victory points
	Fatigue; also an unrest cube in India
	Window tax
	Export
	Vote
	Tax policy
	Bonus policy
	Power policy
	Shipping enterprise (shipyard)
	Manufacturing enterprise (workshop)
	Social enterprise (luxury)
	Company share