Hansa Teutonica FAQ
91 questions players ask · Updated Nov 7, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup and Components
Placing, Displacing and Moving
- How do I get merchants (discs) if I have none?
- Does each piece I take from the stock cost an action?
- Can the Allocating action take pieces from the board if the stock is empty?
- Do cubes I remove from my player board go to my stock or my personal supply?
- Can I take the same action several times in one turn?
- Can I displace an opponent if I don't have the extra pieces the displacement costs in my personal supply?
- How many extra pieces does displacing cost, and does the displacing piece's type matter?
- Where can a displaced player place the displaced piece and the extra pieces?
- Can I displace a piece on a route that still has empty spaces, and can the piece stay on that route?
- Must the displaced player place the extra pieces from stock, or only the displaced piece?
- What does a displaced player place when the general stock is empty?
- When does the displaced player place their pieces: right away or after the active player's turn?
- When I'm displaced, can the replacement pieces from the stock be merchants as well as traders?
- Can pieces in a city office be moved, displaced or taken back?
- How much does a swap cost with the Moving action, and can I swap a trader with a merchant?
- Must I move my full Book of Lore number of pieces, or can I move fewer?
- Does moving several of my pieces cost one action or several?
- Can the Moving action push an opponent's piece off a space, or put my piece on a space held by someone else?
- Can I move my pieces to any route, for example to block an opponent?
- Can I place pieces on a route right after claiming it in the same turn?
- Can the Book of Lore (Liber Sophiae) action be used one piece at a time, and can it displace?
Establishing a Trade Route
- When I claim a route, can I decline to place an office (Kontor) and claim it only for points or the bonus marker?
- What happens to my traders and merchants on a route I claim, especially if I take no office?
- Can I claim the same route again and again just to score the 2 points for controlling both end cities?
- Who scores prestige when a route is claimed, and are the points optional?
- Is city-control prestige scored before I place my new office, or after?
- Can I both open an office and upgrade a skill with one route claim?
- When I place an office, must it go in the leftmost empty space of the city, or can I skip ahead with a higher privilege?
- Must the office come from the route I just claimed, or can I use a merchant from my supply?
- What counts as connecting Arnheim and Stendal for the 7/4/2 points?
- Does claiming any route next to a skill city (such as Göttingen) give the upgrade, or only a specific one?
- How do the Coellen prestige spaces work, and can I take more than one?
- Can I claim a route whose end cities are both full?
- Does the gold-coin point apply to every office in that city, and does swapping an office there score it?
- Who controls a city when players have the same number of offices?
Bonus Markers
- Can I use a bonus marker in the same action in which I took it, or after my last action of the turn?
- Can I use more than one bonus marker in a turn?
- When do I draw and place the replacement bonus marker after taking one?
- Where can a replacement bonus marker be placed?
- What if no route is legal for the replacement bonus marker, or I forget to place it?
- If I claim a route with no bonus marker on it, do I draw a new marker?
- Do I see the replacement bonus marker before placing it, and is it placed face up?
- Do the replacement markers on my tin plate score at game end?
- How does the Extra Office bonus marker work?
- Can the Extra Office marker create the first office in a city or be used with a skill upgrade?
- Can I place more than one Extra Office in the same city, and does it count for control and networks?
- Can an office placed with the Extra Office marker be moved by the Swap Offices marker?
- What can the Swap Offices marker swap?
- What does the Remove 3 Resources bonus marker do, and does it differ in the Big Box?
- Are the Remove 3 Resources and +1 Ability descriptions swapped in the Z-Man rulebook?
End of the Game
- What ends the game, and when exactly?
- If a route claim takes me to 20 points, do I still finish the whole action?
- Does the game end if the bonus marker stock runs out, and what about the marker I just took?
- Can I use a bonus marker, such as Extra Office, on the action that ends the game?
- How are ties for the win broken?
Final Scoring
- How does the Town Keys network scoring work at game end?
- Do offices placed by Extra Office markers, or a longer chain, count for the network score?
- Do I get the 4-point bonus for maxing out the Town Keys track?
- How many points do bonus markers score at game end?
- How is city control scored at the end of the game, and how are control ties settled?
Two-Player Rules
- In the 2-player game, can I move the pawn for free both before and after my actions?
- Is the free pawn move mandatory, and must it be exactly two provinces?
- Can the pawn move diagonally through a city?
- In the 2-player game, which actions must be next to the pawn?
- How many provinces are there in the 2-player game?
- Can the 2-player rules be used with three players?
- Is there a newer set of 2-player rules, and does it work with the base game and any map?
- How does the neutral player work in the neutral-trader 2-player variant?
- In the neutral 2-player rules, where does a new bonus marker go if no empty route qualifies?
Hansa Teutonica: BritanniaExpansion
- In Britannia, who may insert or displace a piece in Wales or Scotland?
- In Britannia, which actions need the Wales/Scotland permission?
- In Britannia, if I lose my rightmost office and am displaced in Scotland, can I place the extra pieces from stock?
- In Britannia, can the 'Place two Resources' marker put one piece each in Scotland and Wales?
- How do the end-game points for Wales and Scotland work in Britannia?
- In Britannia, is London part of Wales or Scotland for placement and scoring?
- In Britannia, does the Cardiff permission depend on holding the rightmost office or on controlling Cardiff?
- In Britannia and the East map, how do displaced pieces treat routes with only merchant spaces?
- What does the Britannia 'Replace three Resources' marker do?
- In Britannia, is a city's skill upgrade tied to one route?
- What do the red scoring tables on the Britannia board award?
Hansa Teutonica: East ExpansionExpansion
- On the East map, can Swap Offices be used in green or yellow cities?
- On the East map, how can I place a piece in a green city?
- On the East map, when can I use the permanent bonus marker of a sea route?
- Can the East move-two permanent bonus move opponents' pieces, and does it cost an action?
- Does the owner of a green city score when an adjacent route is claimed?
- Is the city the East rules call Leipzig the one named Lübeck on the map?
- Can the Maritime Move 2 marker take tradesmen from offices in cities?