Production Cities

New Trade Card Rules for Advanced Civilization

These rules simulate the fact that various commodities are produced specifically in certain regions and not in others, and limits the cards that may be traded in by a player based on where his cities are.

Option 1: Production Cities

An alternative to the Trade Cities variant, but one which will generally slow the game rather than speed it up; it will also create a little more conflict over valuable commodity centres.

Each city space has a commodity associated with it. For a player to cash in any trade cards of a given commodity, he or she must control a city representing that commodity. Should a player posess more than one city of a given commodity, then he gets a bonus in that commodity as in the Trade Cities variant. See the table below for specifics.

Option 2: Production Spaces

As option 1, but you may also wish to assign commodities to non-city spaces. This will allow players who build cities on non-city spaces to use those cities for selling commodities. I do not recommend using both alternate options 3 and 4. Use the table below; the first column of each commodity represents cities, the second column of each commodity represents spaces. Names in Italics represent areas from the expansion maps, and places with an asterisk are to be used only if the Eastern extension map is not used, while names in brackets represent areas on the main board whose value is changed if the Eastern map is used.

Production Cities
Option 1 Option 2 Option 1 Option 2

Gold Ivory

Antioch Cappadocia Carthage Tripolitania

Buhan Dalmatia Gandahara Nubia

Nishapur Lusitania East Mauretania

Maimana Gedrosia

Gems Dye

Nineveh Campania Tyre Ionia

Thera Eastern Desert Tashkent Sabrata

Samarkand Rhaetia Baleares

Registan Bahrain

Spices Resin

Susa Syria Byzantium Arabia

Petra Jalo Marl Caucausus

Knossus Kuban Bukhara Tunisia

Persepolis Baetica Pyrenees

Oman Makran

Bronze Silver

Rome Sinai Sardinia Lemnos

Salamis Van Gordium Paeonia

Carrhae Leser Armenia New Carthage Cilicia

Corduba Lundinium Terraconensis

Khazaria Sagartia

Cloth Wine

Alexndria Rubicon Corinth Etruria

Damascus Epirus Rhodes Lesbos

Sparta Assyria Jerusalem Crimea

Tarentum Lycia Narbo Bithnyia

Ebusus Iberus Aquitania

Hindu Kush Khwarizm

Grain Oil

Tyras Scythia Neapolis Siwa

Palermo Thrace Cyrene Delphi

Phaestos Caralia Aleppo Milazzo

Fayum Mesopotamia Athens Phoenicia

Babylon Sumeria Massalia Cyprus

Cirta Belgica West Mauretania

Transoxiana Qatar

Salt Timber

Tripoli Dacia Sidon Corsica

Syracuse Pannonia Thessalonika Phrygia

Moesia Sahara Miletus Elam*

Ur Nalchik Kanesh Galatia

Jericho Numidia Bactra Thessaly

Merv Upper Germany Britannia

Ust-Urt Aria

Arachosia

Iron Papyrus

Ankara Cisalpina Memphis Babylonia

Argos Illyricum Tanis Ptolemais

Troy Sudeten Thebes Western Desert

Ithaca Samnium (Charax) Cyrenaica

Herat Media Upper Egypt

Hispania New Africa

Al-Hasa Andizhan

Hides Ochre

Appolonia Germany Sinope Libya

Chalcis Danube Eretria Gaza

Sardes Parthia Charax* Chalcia

Ecbatana Mikop Thapsus Midian

Macedonia Armenia

Rhine Gaul

Lower Germany Lugdunensis

Khiva Karakum

Option 3:
As option 1, but you may wish to allow players to cash in level 1 commodities (Hides & Ochre) without requiring them to control such a city associated with that commodity. In this case, Ochre and Hides cities have the effect of Trade cities in the Trade Cities variant but are not required to use those commodities. Also, modify the city list as follows:

Hides: Appollonia Ochre: Sinope

(Ecbatana) Eretria

Iron: Thapsus Papyrus: Charax

Salt: Sardes Timber: Chalcis