Fields of Fortune

The cards form the Fortune deck. It is composed of 102 cards, most of which will be beneficial to a player's city, such as Castles, City Squares, Military Structures, Religious Structures, or Treasuries. However, there are also Barbarian Horde cards of varying strength throughout the deck that may result in a raid. On a player's turn, they may choose to either hire mercenaries if available, or add cards to the field.

A player adds cards to the field by turning over cards from the Fortune deck, one at a time and laying them out in the play area between all players (the field). The player may continue to add cards to the field until they choose to stop, barbarians raid the field, or when there are 8 cards in the field. When a player chooses to stop, they then choose up to 3 cards from the field to add to their city. The cards are sorted in the player's city by type (Castle, City Square, Military Structure, Religious Structure, Treasury), as the player is trying to maximize points by completing sets of the different types.

Each Barbarian Horde card has a strength value of 1-3. A barbarian raid occurs when a player is adding cards to the field and a total of 5 or more strength points worth of Barbarian Horde cards is revealed. When this happens, the field is swept (all cards are removed to the discard pile) and the player's turn immediately ends.

Alternately, instead of adding cards to the field, a player may choose to hire mercenaries if there are any available in the general supply. Mercenaries will help the player defend against barbarian raids by destroying Barbarian Horde cards in the field of equal or lesser value, just as a player's regular Army cards do. A player who chooses to hire mercenaries may still collect cards from the field, if any, that were previously placed there by another player.

When the Fortune deck runs out, the player with the most points based on all cards in their city is the winner.

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Fields of Fortune designed by Bryan Johnson.

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