Expansion: Invasion (co-operative)

Invasion, the co-operative Orléans scenario for 2–5 players: the City Defense board, achievements, the five common objectives with their per-count targets, the nine characters, the support actions and all 31 events.

Short tag: [Invasion]

The Invasion box holds four separate scenarios that use its boards: this co-operative game, Prosperity, The Duel and the solo scenarios.

What it adds

Rumours of invasion: as a team you fortify Orléans — knights on the walls, citizens in the city, coins in the treasury, food in the warehouse and a fortified tower in every border town — while each of you also completes a personal objective. One missed objective when the Invasion tile appears, and everyone loses. 2–5 players, by Inka and Markus Brand.

Component	Use
	Reverse of the game board, with fortified-tower spaces at the 13 border towns
	5 achievements and 5 common objectives
	One per player: four extra actions FAQ
	Only for the Councilman FAQ FAQ
9 character cards	Personal objectives (Cards & Components)
31 hour glass tiles	16 A, 14 B, 1 C

Setup changes

Set up the base game with these changes:

Turn the game board to its Invasion side and put the City Defense board (“the City”) beside it.
Use only these place tiles — I: Cheese Factory, Hayrick, Herb Garden, Library, Shipping Line, Tailor Shop, Vineyard, Windmill, Winery, Wool Manufacturer; II: Black Market, Cellar, Gunpowder Tower, Horse Wagon, Laboratory, Market Stand, Pharmacy, School, Stage Coach, Tavern, Well.
Shuffle hour glass piles A and B separately and draw blind:

Players	A tiles	B tiles	Rounds
2–3	9	8	18
4–5	8	7	16

Stack the C tile (Invasion) at the bottom, the B tiles on it, the A tiles on top.

Put a citizen on every empty citizen space of the game board (10) and 5 more on the City’s achievements.
With 3 players put a trading station of an unused colour as a fortified tower in La Châtre, Briare and Tours; with 2 players also in Étampes, Montargis, St-Amand-Montrond and Chinon.
Each player draws a character card face up (or choose one). The Councilman also takes the Assembly Hall.
Each player takes a Support board. No base hour glass tiles, no base Beneficial Deeds.

Course of play

Play as in the base game, but there is no census. You may discuss and plan together. You win the moment the last objective is done; otherwise the game ends with the Invasion tile.

Support actions

Action	Effect
Vehicle	Send up to 3 goods to the City or to another player — one destination
Guild House	Send up to 4 coins (in value) to the City or to another player — one destination
Hostel	Give a follower from your market to another player, who may place it at once on an action space; it stays with them
Palatinate	Use an action another player has activated; their followers go back to their bag as if they had used it

Sending to the City may split between its paired areas (warehouse and clothing store; treasury and city treasury). A follower received by Hostel may go into your Town Hall even if you already used it.

Achievements

Fill the City’s five achievements over several turns: followers by Town Hall (or Gunpowder Tower), goods by Vehicle, coins by Guild House. The Catapult takes gear wheels: when a craftsman gives you one, choose the catapult or an action space (your first gear wheel must still go on a farmer space; Laboratory gear wheels are exempt). Each completed achievement gives the team its citizen.

Common objectives

Objective	2 players	3 players	4 players	5 players
Knights on the City Walls	5	8	10	13
Citizens collected	7	8	9	10
Coins in the City Treasury	30	40	50	50
Warehouse ( / / )	6 / 3 / 3	10 / 5 / 5	12 / 6 / 6	14 / 7 / 7
Fortified towers	All 13 border towns

Citizens: Le Blanc’s citizen comes when anyone builds there. The three citizens below the goods beside the tracks come when that goods pile is emptied (they are kept even if it refills). The citizen by the craftsmen track comes once every one of the six follower tracks has a cube on its last space.
Fortified towers: use your own Guildhall with your merchant in the border town, placing a trading station on its tower space. Ordinary trading stations go only in towns without a tower space.

Characters

Every personal objective must be met by the end:

Character	Personal objective
Librarian	Development status 5; a trading station in Loches; 4 place tiles
Mayor	10 coins and 2 citizens of your own (not counted for the team)
Fisherman	Last space of the boatmen track; 4 monks; 2 wool
Scholar	Last development space (status 6); 4 trading stations (not towers) on the map
General	Last space of the knights track; 4 gear wheels on your boards and tiles
Merchant	50 points in brocade, wool and coins only
Councilman	Fill the Assembly Hall — only you may send followers there
Innkeeper	16 points in grain, cheese and wine; trading stations in Châteaudun and Châteauroux
Estate Manager	Pay the card’s demand at the end of every round (coins; development steps in rounds 5 and 18; a farmer and a boatman from the market in rounds 8 and 14; a gear wheel in 10; a trading station in 13; a place tile in 16)

Events

“As a team” means you agree who contributes. Tiles with a round symbol act at the time shown.

A event	Effect
Assembly	Nobody may use the Town Hall this round.
Demolition	The team returns 2 (2–3 players) or 3 (4–5) gear wheels, paying coins for each missing; if impossible, you lose.
Donation	The team shares 3 development points, 1 wine and 3 coins.
Drought	Remove 4 grain from the map.
Earthquake	Turn over 5 place tiles in the supply: they can no longer be taken.
Escape	Remove Le Blanc’s citizen if nobody has it yet.
Good Trade	The team may pay 8 coins to put 3 grain in the warehouse.
Good Winds	At round end one player may move by waterway for free, taking a good.
Highwayman	No roads this round.
Pilgrimage	No monks may be recruited this round.
Progress	Each may pay 4 coins (alone) to build a tower or station where their merchant is.
Reinforcement	Add this tile to the City Walls: one more knight is needed, or you lose.
Support	Each draws a follower, advances on its track with the bonus and gains another of that type.
Training	Each advances on a track (not development) with its effect, but no follower.
Trip	Anyone with the merchant in Orléans at round end pays 4 coins alone; if someone cannot, you lose.
Wool Market	The team may make up to 3 trades: buy or sell wool for 2 coins, brocade for 3.

B / C event	Effect
Arson	The team removes 2 / 3 built place tiles for good, or 6 coins for each missing; if impossible, you lose.
Bon Voyage	Each may pay 2 coins (alone) to move the merchant one connection, taking a good.
Famine	Each returns 3 followers (not personal ones) to the supply, as many as possible.
Fishing Grounds	Coins by boatmen-track position (none on the last space).
Harvest	Return food or pay coins, as in the base game.
Income	Coins by development status.
Pirates	All wool and brocade on waterways go back to the supply.
Plague / Raging Plague	Each loses 1 / 2 followers drawn blind (personal ones are safe).
Rats	Remove 2 cheese and 1 grain from the warehouse.
Robbery	Each pays goods worth 5 points or destroys one of their towers; if someone cannot, you lose.
Rome Calling	Each returns a monk — or the team removes one uncollected citizen.
Summoning	Merchants return to Orléans, or each pays 5 coins alone to stay.
Witch Hunt	The team loses 6 development points, a monk for each point not given; if impossible, you lose.
Invasion (C)	At round end every objective must be complete: victory or defeat.