Learn Orléans

Welcome to Orléans

Medieval France. Each of you leads a family that recruits followers into a cloth bag, draws a handful every round and puts them to work — trading, building, studying and serving the common good.

After 18 rounds the most victory points wins. Points come from:

• Coins and goods — brocade is worth the most.
• Trading stations and citizens, multiplied by your development status.

2–5 players (solo and co-op scenarios too), about 90 minutes. Ready to set up? Open the setup checklist — it adapts to your player count.

Your followers and the boards

• You start with four followers in your colour: farmer, boatman, craftsman and trader. They never leave you.
• Your player board has ten places; each needs a set of followers on its spaces.
• The game board has a track for each follower type, the development track and the map.

More: The player board.

A round in seven phases

1. Reveal the event (it strikes at the end of the round).
2. Census: most farmers gains a coin, fewest pays one.
3. Draw followers from your bag — as many as your knights allow.
4. Plan at the same time: put followers on the places you want.
5. Act in turn, one completed place at a time, until everyone passes.
6. Resolve the event.
7. Pass the start player token.

More: Course of play.

Grow your engine

• New followers make better draws: knights draw more, monks are wild, scholars bring development.
• Gear wheels fill a space for good; place tiles add new places.
• Send your merchant by ship and wagon to collect goods and build trading stations.
• The Town Hall sends spare followers to the Beneficial Deeds for coins and citizens.

More: Actions.

Events and the final score

• Events bring income or demands; if you must pay and cannot, you suffer torture.
• At the end: 1 point per coin, goods by value, and (trading stations + citizens) × development status.
• Then add the expansions: Trade & Intrigue, The Plague or one of the Invasion scenarios.

More: Final scoring.