Additional Commodity Cards

and Calamities

for Civilization and Advanced Civilization

This page provides access to an alpha-test version of some additional commodity cards and calamities for Advanced Civilization. If you don't own Advanced Civilization (or, at the very minimum, its inferior ancestor Civilization) then these files are unlikely to be of any use. Additional Advanced Civilization material can be found from my board games page or my home page.

The cards are split up into several files:

1s, 2s and 3s (also available as a GIF);
4s, 5s and 6s (also available as a GIF);
7s, 8s and 9s (also available as a GIF); and
rules for the calamities.

Motivation

An Advanced Civilization game with a large number of players differs significantly from one with a small number of players with respect to the acquisition of trade cards. This is principally because calamity cards run out, leading to an advantage for players higher up the Archaeological Succession Track.

Now this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just because a game is different doesn't mean it is worse, and the players will hopefully be aware of the issue when they choose countries. But if this does bother you (as it bothered many in our group) or if you are playing with an unusually large number of players, then the extra cards may be required.

Please send feedback to the author, David Bofinger. Other material can be found on my home page, including some related to other board games.

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