• Playing time: 90 minutes.
• Year Published: 2011.
• Number of players: 2-4.
• Recommended Ages: 12+.
• Publisher: HUCH! & Friends.

Product Description ------------------- Set in ancient Rome, Trajan is a development game in which players try to increase their influence and power in various areas of Roman life such as political influence, trading, dominion and other important parts of Roman culture. The central mechanism of the game uses a system similar to that in Mancala or pit-and-pebbles games. In Trajan, a player has six possible actions: building, trading, taking tiles from the forum, using the , influencing the Senate, and placing Trajan tiles on his tableau. At the start of the game, each player has two differently colored pieces in each of the six sections (s) of his tableau. On a turn, the player picks up all the pieces in one and distributes them one-by-one in s in a clockwise order. Wherever the final piece is placed, the player takes the action associated with that ; in addition, if the colored pieces in that match the colors shown on a Trajan tile next to the (with tiles being placed at the start of the game and through later actions), then the player takes the additional action shown on that tile. What are you trying to do with these actions? Acquire victory points (VPs) in whatever ways are available to you - and since this is a Feld design, you try to avoid being punished, too. At the Forum you try to anticipate the demands of the public so that you can supply them what they want and not suffer a penalty. In the Senate you acquire influence which translates into votes on VP-related laws, ideally snagging a law that fits your long-term plans. With the , you take control of regions in Europe, earning more points for those regions far from Rome. All game components are language neutral, and the playing time is 30 minutes per player. Box Contains ------------ 1 game board 4 Arches of Trajan 4 sets of octagonal action markers 1 time marker 4 leader tokens 8 discs 60 small player tokens 60 commodity cards 54 Trajan tiles 70 Forum tiles 12 Extra action tiles 20 Construction tiles 24 [+2] marker 15 Demand tiles 3 Ship tiles 12 Bonus tiles 4 Quarter year tiles 4 player mats in the player colors 1 Linen bag 2 Rulebooks