Category: Rules
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During this phase, each player chooses a strategy card. These cards provide players with powerful abilities to use during the action phase. Each card also has a number that determines turn order for the game round, known as "initiative order."
- Step 1: Beginning with the speaker and continuing clockwise, each player chooses one of the strategy cards from the common play area and places it face-up near their faction sheet.
- When playing with three or four players, after the last player has received their first strategy card, each player chooses a second strategy card, starting with the speaker and proceeding clockwise.
- Step 2: After each player has chosen a strategy card, the speaker places one trade good on each strategy card that was not chosen. During future strategy phases, when a player chooses a strategy card that has one or more trade goods on it, they gain those trade goods.
After these steps, players proceed to the action phase.
Strategy Cards[]
| 1) Leadership | 2) Diplomacy |
| 3) Politics | 4) Construction |
| 5) Trade | 6) Warfare |
| 7) Technology | 8) Imperial |
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