Antiquity (2004)

Antiquity is set in an environment loosely modeled on Italy in the late Middle Ages.

Players choose their own victory conditions: they can focus on population growth, trade, conquest, or city building by choosing their patron saint. Each strategy requires a completely different style of play. Or you can choose Santa Maria, the most powerful saint of all, but you’ll be expected to build a civilization twice as impressive as any other player.

While your economy is constantly improving, with more and more advanced cities bringing new options each turn, the land around your cities is slowly being depleted, forcing you to travel further and further to gather your raw materials until finally, there is no more land left to farm.

Let’s hope one of you has won the game before that time!

Original text from the draft of the English rules.

Awards

• 2005 International Gamers Award finalist.

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Editions

	2004: 1st famine track runs from 0-18 only one side of all chits and buildings printed 22 cubes per color (20 workers, 1 saint marker, and 1 turn order marker)
	2006: 2nd building costs on back of buildings, including houses (very handy) both sides of chits printed (pollution, graves) one cube less per color than 1st edition (does not matter much) famine track runs from 0-37 (19-37 on the back)