Emperor of China

Sequence of Play: 1 player performs all phases:

1. Place 3 new population markers, also
   • province receives 2 markers per Agricultural wealth
   • province receives 1 marker per other type of wealth
     note: limit of 10 markers per province
2. Colonization
   • move 3 or more markers to an adjacent, unoccupied area
   • barriers do not apply
   • markers which colonize cannot move in the next phases
3. Movement
   • move markers to adjacent occupied areas
   • barriers apply
4. Expansion by negotiation or combat
   • negotiation, mergers possible
   • expand by moving tokens into adjacent enemy-occupied province
   • attacker can roll as many dice as he has armies
   • even result is attacker victory, odd is defender victory
   • Defenders may withdraw at any time to friendly-occupied province
   • victorious attackers can attack other adjacent occupied provinces
   • no garrison requirement, province can go vacant
5. Draw 1 Yang and 1 Yin card
   • before looking at cards designate a province for each
   • resolve effects (may be same province)
   • Yang cards may be saved

• control 15 provinces by occupation or encirclement, or
• eliminate all opposition, or
• or have the most points when Mandate of Heaven drawn: Population markers: 1
  Cities and Mines: 1
  Agricultural Markers: 2
  Held Yang cards: 1
  Occupied provinces: 2
  Provinces adjacent only to your pieces: 2

• Adjacencies:
  • Taiwan adjacent to Checkiang, Fukien and Kwantung
  • Korea adjacent to Shantung and Liaoning
• Barriers:
  • May not attack over mountain, river, wall or sea without appropriate Yang card
  • if majority of border has a barrier, barrier applies to entire border
  • If multiple barriers, only need to cross the barrier of highest precedence:
    • Great Wall takes precedence over mountains
    • Mountains take precedence over water barriers

• players place 3 tokens per province: 2 players: 3 adjacent provinces
  3 players: 2 adjacent provinces
  4-5 players: 1 province
• Find and remove Mandate of Heaven of Yang deck.
• Shuffle decks.
• Put Mandate of Heaven at bottom of Yang deck.
• Decide whether there is a mountain border between Honan and Shensi or not.

In calculating battle we rule that the active player must move all the forces in first, then ensues a number of rounds of dice rolling where the number rolled is equal to the size of the smaller force.