Action: Capturing a City

1. Unowned cities can be captured without a fight. They then require a map and contract.
2. Cities already claimed must be fought for! See forming an army, ahead. 

Action: Establishing a trade route

1. If you own a city, you can establish a trade route by connecting it to another city. 
2. As long as you own that city, you gain 1 wealth per every city connected to the trade route. (If 10 cities are connected, everyone involved gains 10 wealth.)
3. Wealth from trade routes counts as “Trade” income in your ledger. 
4. Trade routes can be broken if any city along the route is captured by someone who does not want to maintain the route, or if the original owner simply no longer wants to allow traders through their land.
5. If losing a trade route causes your wealth to become negative, you must trade resources until it becomes positive. You may need to find a new trade route or rebuild a city to make more wealth.

Action: Forming an Army

1. Fortune favors the brave.
2. You and any allies send knights, men-at-arms, machines, and possibly mercenaries into an Army. 
3. You and your allies fill out the Army Roster page, listing your war resources. 
4. Knights and Men-at-arms are your best soldiers, while machines are required to attack large castles. You can spend wealth to hire mercenaries, though they are not as good as knights. 
5. While in an army, whatever you send is not available to defend or attack other locations. Be wary! 
6. An army is represented by a tag on the map. Once created, you select a target and describe the path. If you pass through another lord’s lands, you need their permission or they might harass your army, weakening it slightly. 
7. The next turn, you reach your target. Targets can be cities or castles; castles defend the cities near them. There are no surprise attacks; the defenders will have that turn to gather their own Army Roster. 
8. When armies meet, the commanders of the defenders and attackers roll die for each soldier in the army. Knights use a 10-sided die, men-at-arms use an 8-sided die, and mercenaries use a 6-sided die. 
9. Rolls of 1 or 2 are casualties: those units are removed from the Army Rosters. However, you can only lose as many soldiers as your enemy army currently has. Weaker units are removed first.
10. The battle continues until an army has no further soldiers. The other wins!
11. If attacking a castle, the attacker needs more machines than the defender has Defenses, or they must siege the castle. Their army cannot return home for an extra turn, even if they win the battle. This allows defenders a second chance to attack! 
12. If the attacking army wins, they claim the castle or city. The army disperses and must be reformed. The castle or city must be rebuilt before it is active again. 
13. If the defender wins, the attacking army is dispersed and all defenders gain 1 gold coin in trophies.

Action: Adventuring

1. Nobles often travel, seeking fame and fortune. Adventuring can bring honor. 
2. Completing an adventure requires submitting a 3-5 paragraph report on a subject you know about, care about, or find interesting. 
3. An adventuring noble gains 1-3 gold coins, depending on the quality of their report.

Action: Rebuilding

1. When you capture a city or castle, it becomes damaged. You do not immediately gain its resources, and castle defenses do not work. You must spend an action to rebuild it.
2. Once rebuilt, the city/castle give you full access to their resources.
3. You can choose to change the map of the city or castle when rebuilding, to gain different resources. This works like building a new estate. 
4. You can also rebuilt your own cities or castles at any time, without needing to conquer them.