Clans of Caledonia
132 questions players ask about Clans of Caledonia. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-02.
Setup and Components
- How much money does each player start with?
- Do my two starting workers have to be one Woodcutter and one Miner?
- Can I place a Field or other building during setup instead of a worker?
- How do I arrange the four map modules?
- Are the Scoring tiles visible from the start of the game?
- What are the factory symbols printed on the map for?
- What happens if the supply of goods or coins runs out?
- Can I keep my money or goods hidden from other players?
- What can I build on forest-only or mountain-only spaces?
- Are two lochs separated by a thin spit of land adjacent for shipping and settlements?
Trade and the Market
- Can I buy and sell the same good in the same round?
- Can I buy (or sell) the same good again on a later turn in the same round?
- Can merchants already placed on the Market board be used again this round?
- How many goods, and how many different goods, can I trade in a single Trade action?
- Can I still buy or sell a good when its price is already at the top or bottom of the track?
- What happens when the price-manipulating Port tile would move a price past the end of the track?
Export Contracts
- Can I hold more than one unfulfilled Export contract?
- Can I fulfil more than one Export contract in the same turn?
- In what order do I take the rewards of a fulfilled Export contract?
- Can I fulfil an Export contract after the last Production phase?
- Does the Free space contract bonus have to be used where an animal was slaughtered?
- Can a Free space expansion place my fourth building and trigger the Building bonus?
- Can two Bonus Upgrade rewards make one Technology upgrade free?
- What can I choose with a Bonus Upgrade action?
- How do Export contracts that require Meat (Beef or Mutton) work?
- When do I get the £1 bonus on the Import track for Cotton, Tobacco and Sugar cane?
Expanding and Bonuses
- Where can I place a new unit with the Expand action?
- Can I expand across a loch to a space beyond a land hex if my Shipping reach covers it?
- Can one Expand cross both a river and a loch?
- Is the Neighbourhood bonus limit of three goods per neighbouring unit, or per good type?
- What do I pay with the Neighbourhood bonus, and can the discount take a price below the market's lowest space?
- Which goods can I buy with the Neighbourhood bonus?
- Do I get the Neighbourhood bonus if a river lies between my new unit and the opponent's?
- Do I get the Neighbourhood bonus again when I place another unit next to the same opponent unit?
- Can I take the Neighbourhood bonus later if I skip it when I expand?
Upgrades, Passing and Turn Order
- Can I buy several Shipping upgrades or hire several Merchants in one action?
- How much money do I get for passing, and does it affect turn order?
- Do I get the turn-order money at the start of the game?
- After everyone else has passed, can the last remaining player keep taking turns?
- What does the pencil icon on an upgraded Technology tile mean?
Port Bonus Tiles
- When can I use a Port bonus tile, and do I have to stay in reach of it?
- Can I use a Port tile to pay for the unit whose placement brings the port into my reach?
- If slaughtering an animal cuts my link to a Port tile, can I still use its one-fewer-Meat bonus?
- How does the Port tile that reduces the Meat required work?
- How does the Port tile that manipulates a price by three steps work?
- How does the Port tile that swaps two of my units work?
- Does the Port tile with a Bonus Upgrade and 3 Glory give 3 Glory per upgrade I own?
Production
Scoring Tiles and Glory
- How much Glory does a Field earn on the Scoring tile for deployed units?
- Does the round Scoring tile for Cotton, Tobacco and Sugar cane score per unit or per set?
- Do loch spaces on the edge count as border spaces for the border-space Scoring tile?
- Which goods count for the Scoring tile that pays Glory for Basic goods in stock?
- How do the Glory tokens and tiles work when I pass the end of the Glory track?
Final Scoring
- How are ties broken at the end of the game?
- In round 5, do I still get the pass bonus and Production before final scoring?
- Is a fisherman next to my land units part of their settlement?
- How does Settlement scoring count: all my settlements, or only the largest connected group?
- Which settlements are "within Shipping reach" for scoring?
- How are ties split in Settlement scoring?
- What are the Settlement tokens for?
- How are Cotton, Tobacco and Sugar cane scored at the end?
- How are Hops scored, and do they count in the import ranking?
- How are Export scoring points split when players tie?
Two-Player and Solo Games
- How does the 2-player game differ from 3-4 players?
- In a 1-2 player game, which spaces are active, and which count as border spaces?
- In the solo game, do I track imported goods on the Export board?
- Does the Market Phase (dice) apply to multiplayer games?
- In a solo game, do I get a Neighbourhood bonus, and how much do I get for passing?
Clans
- How much does Clan Buchanan pay when it obtains two Export contracts in one turn?
- How many contracts does Clan Buchanan look at with the Building bonus?
- Can Clan Buchanan fulfil two contracts in one turn, and use rewards from the first for the second?
- How does Clan Campbell's factory discount work?
- How does Clan Cunningham's butter work?
- Where does Clan Fergusson place its three starting workers?
- How many fishermen can Clan MacDonald row, and when?
- Where can Clan MacDonald place and move fishermen?
- Does rowing a fisherman trigger the Neighbourhood bonus?
- Do Clan MacDonald's fishermen block other players' shipping or expansion?
Clans of Caledonia: IndustriaExpansion
- How many of my own units can stand on one space in Industria?
- When a bonus lets me move a unit, do I pay land cost, and does it trigger bonuses?
- Can Clan MacFarlane combine its canal reach with loch shipping, for placing units or claiming ports?
- Does a forked river count as one river for Clan MacFarlane's reach?
- Do Clan MacFarlane units along one river form one settlement?
- Is Port tile 18 a free action, and which contract does it fulfil?
- Can Port tile 18 combine with Delivery bonus 23 for the import-good payout?
- Can I mix and match the four Industria map boards?
- On pair/diversity Scoring tiles in Industria, can one unit count more than once, and are Workers one type?