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How do you set up the board and number tokens for the 5-6 player game?

Posters describe the same island layout and token order, and the expansion rulebook agrees. The claim that there is no basic setup was dropped because the rulebook describes one.

  • Philip Thomas · Community · 2006-03-10
  • ChrisB · Community · 2006-03-10
  • Excalabur · Community · 2005-11-25

Build the 30-hex island (rows of 3-4-5-6-5-4-3). The deserts get no number tokens. Place the number tokens from the 5-6 expansion in a spiral from a corner, starting with the A token and finishing with Za, Zb, Zc, skipping deserts. Use only the 5-6 tokens, not the base game's.

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