Im Schutze Der Burg

1. Player display
2. Cards
3. Wehrturm
4. Raw material fields (sand, wood, brick, stone, silver)
5. Trader assistance
6. Building (unbuilt)
7. folding bar for current personal cards
8. Status display
9. Round indicator

The field can be moved vertically either by means of a mouse wheel or pressed right mouse button.

The player's name and raw material stocks are displayed (name, sand, wood, brick, stone, silver, thaler). There are also small icons in the course of the game, which means:

• Coin = starter
• Pöppel = player must select a card
• Map = Player has already selected a map

Before the start of the game

Each player receives eight personal cards, 3x valley, 1x sand and 1x wood at the beginning. Furthermore, six (seven in the two-game) helpers in his color.

Game sequence

The game runs at 2/3/4 people over 12/15/12 rounds.

At the beginning of the round, the starter receives the valley from the round display.

After that, all players choose one of their personal cards that they want to play in this round (in the two game each chooses two cards). To do this, you drive with the mouse over your own player display. Your own cards will be folded out. Already played cards are darkly underlaid and can no longer be selected.

If each player has chosen, all cards are uncovered at the same time and always negotiated in exactly this order:

1. Bots
2. Dealers
3. Mauritania
4. Stone metathesis
5. Workers
6. Construction master

If several players have selected the same card, it is executed in player order.

Once all played cards have been negotiated, the next round follows. The starter changes clockwise. Played cards remain open and can no longer be selected until the builder is played (see builder).

Bots

The player receives eight thalers from the bank.

Dealers

The dealer places a helper on a free raw material field (fenders or riders).

On each field of raw materials only a Sit down. If all fleets are occupied, the player may choose whether to place his aids on the rider or to displace one of the aids on the fleets. If the rider is also occupied, it may also be displaced. In principle, however, it is important that no aid should be displaced in the Current round was used. All aids remain in their place until they are either displaced or taken away from the owner to be placed in the castle (see Steinmetz and Maurer).

If the aids were played (or fitted) for all traders placed in this round, the trader aids receive raw materials: All Dealers (i.e. also the dealerships of players who did not play a dealer in this round) get as many raw materials "their" variety as shown on the schedule (4x sand, 3x wood, 2x brick/stone/silver).
If no dealer card was discovered, there are no raw materials.
The dealer can also be played without using a remedy. Raw materials are still available for all dealers.

Each player who receives raw materials through a trader must: each obtained variety immediately Part Pay tribute to the Wehrturm (follows automatically).

Mauritania

The mason gets All Raw materials a Variety of the Wehrturm.

Simply click on the desired variety on the Wehrturm.

The stonemasons are allowed to buy a raw material from the working card to all players who have played a worker in this round. If there are several stone chips, this is also the case in player order.

To do this, the card window is opened on the right side and the desired raw material is clicked on.

The following shall apply:

• Only the raw materials can be bought on the working card.
• The worker must sell, except it is the last part.
• In the second game, it is not allowed to buy raw materials from one's own worker with the stone chip.

As soon as the personal cards are uncovered, the corresponding raw materials are placed on each recorded work card.

This worker gets fixed 1x stone. Two other raw materials may be chosen freely (no stone, no silver). To do this, simply click on the desired raw materials below the map and confirm its selection with the OK arrow that appears thereupon.

However, the player only receives the raw materials (automatically) when the workers are in line. For possibly present stonemasons could decimate the stock beforehand.

If the builder card is played, the player will take back all his previously played cards. The building master card may never when all eight cards are still on hand!

In addition, the builder receives for each building built in this round (of other) five win points. He himself may not build!

In the second game, the builder does not bring points for buildings built by himself (by workers/steemmez/maurer).