Overview

Feudum is a deeply strategic game of hand management, resource optimization, and area control set in a medieval kingdom. Players send pawns across the countryside to claim feudums (fiefdoms), dungeons, farms, and towns. Through 5 epochs, players optimize 4 actions per turn to influence 6 interconnected guilds, produce goods, and score victory points. The guild system creates an economic engine where each guild’s leader and journeyman contribute differently to the economy.

Components

• 1 Game board (landscape with locations and guild tracks)
• 5 Player boards
• 11 Action cards per player (55 total)
• 6 Guild boards (Farmer, Merchant, Alchemist, Knight, Noble, Monk)
• Player pawns, feudum markers, influence markers
• Goods tokens (food, wine, iron, sulfur, etc.)
• Royal writ tiles, epoch cards
• Victory point tokens
• Various additional tokens and markers

Setup

1. Place the game board centrally.
2. Each player takes a player board, 11 action cards, pawns, and markers.
3. Place guild boards alongside the main board.
   • Populate guilds with starting members.
4. Distribute starting resources and place pawns on the map.
5. Shuffle epoch cards and place per scenario.

Turn Structure

The game is played over 5 epochs. Each epoch:

1. Draw epoch card (may trigger events or scoring).
2. Players take turns, each choosing 4 actions from their hand of 11 action cards.
3. Play 4 actions one at a time in turn order.
4. At end of epoch, score guild influence and other conditions.

Actions

Each turn, play 4 of your 11 action cards:

1. Move — Move pawns across the landscape between locations.
2. Influence — Place or advance influence at a location to control it.
3. Tax — Collect resources from locations you control.
4. Transfer — Move goods between locations or to guilds.
5. Improve — Upgrade locations (e.g., claim feudums, build farms).
6. Conquer — Military action to take control of locations.
7. Guild — Interact with the 6 guilds to produce goods, gain abilities, or score.
8. Repeat — Take one of the above actions again (with restrictions).
9. Progress — Advance on various development tracks.
10. Migrate — Move population between locations.
11. Starve — (Defensive) Feed your population to avoid penalties.

Guild System

The 6 guilds (Farmer, Merchant, Alchemist, Knight, Noble, Monk) form an interconnected economic chain:

• Each guild has a Leader and Journeyman position.
• Guild leaders push goods through the economy.
• Journeymen receive goods and process them.
• Players earn VP for guild positions during epoch scoring.

Scoring / Victory Conditions

Victory points are earned through:

• Epoch scoring: Points for feudums, guild positions, and influence.
• Guild leadership: Being the leader or journeyman of guilds.
• Royal writs: Completing specific objectives.
• End-game bonuses: Various conditions checked after epoch 5.

The player with the most VP after 5 epochs wins.

Special Rules & Edge Cases

• Feudum control: Claiming a feudum requires sufficient influence and an improving action.
• Guild interconnection: Goods flow from guild to guild; blocking or controlling this flow is strategically important.
• Pawns can be captured through the Conquer action.
• Starvation: Unpaid population causes VP penalties.
• Royal writs provide variable scoring objectives each game.
• Epoch cards introduce different events and conditions per epoch.
• Region influence determines who controls key locations and guilds.

Player Reference

Item	Details
Players	2-5
Epochs	5
Actions per turn	4 (from hand of 11)
Guilds	6 (Farmer, Merchant, Alchemist, Knight, Noble, Monk)
Location types	Feudums, Dungeons, Farms, Towns
Win condition	Most VP after 5 epochs