BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE

INTRODUCTION
Card game for 3 players. 
Simulating the Historical period 1200 – 1150 BC. 
This Era saw a rapid decline in civilization due to a combination of 
Natural Disasters and Invaders with Iron Weapons.  

THREE PLAYERS
One player is the Mycenaean Kingdoms
One player is the Hittite Empire
One player is the Egyptian Empire 

GAME END
The game ends when any player goes to zero in any Attribute.
The player who went to zero gets -2 to their Culture Attribute. 

VICTORY
The player with the most Culture points at the end of the 
game is the winner. 

ATTRIBUTES
Each player has 5 Attributes:
1. Vitality
2. Stability
3. Cities
4. Population
5. Culture

ATTRIBUTE SCORES
Each player starts with 5 Points in each Attribute. 
Scores will change during play. 
Use paper and pencil to keep track. 

THE DECK
Players share a common deck. 

SETUP
Shuffle the Deck. 
The player who went to zero in the last game goes first. 

TURN SEQUENCE
Players take turns. 
On your turn draw 3 cards from the top of the deck. 
Assign 1 card to each of the 3 Players. 
Players record the changes to the score of affected Attributes. 
Discard all the assigned cards. 
Check for end game conditions. 

COMMON DECK CARD LIST
Card Name:				Notes:
Art					Culture +1
Architecture				Culture +1
Literature				Culture +1
Sculpture				Culture +1
Politics				Culture +1
Religion				Culture +1
Law					Culture +1
Mythology				Culture +1
Math					Culture +1
Founding				Cities +1
Colony					Cities +1
Population Growth			Pop +1
Food Surplus				Pop +1
Reform					Stability +1
Wise King				Stability +1
Forts					Vitality +1
Mines					Vitality +1
History Repeats 			Shuffle Discard into Deck
Interrupt Trade Routes			Vitality -1
Extinguish Literacy			Vitality -1
Dark Ages				Vitality -1
Palace Economies Replaced		Vitality -1
Cultural Disruption 			Vitality -1
Tin Shortages				Vitality -1
Piracy					Vitality -1
Soil Degradation			Vitality -1
Climate Changes 			Vitality -1
Loss of Central Authority		Stability -1
Fragile Society				Stability -1
Complex Society 			Stability -1
Overspecialized Society			Stability -1
Top Heavy Political Structure		Stability -1
Revolts					Stability -1
Defections				Stability -1
Migrations				Stability -1
Civil War				Stability -1
Urban Depopulation			Cities -1 
Razed Cities				Cities -1
Volcano 				Cities -1
Natural Disaster			Cities -1
Earthquake				Cities -1
Phrygian Conquest			Cities -1
Thracian Conquest			Cities -1
Macedonian Conquest			Cities -1
Dorian Greek Conquest			Cities -1
Violent Change				Pop -1
Sea Peoples				Pop -1
Slave Raiding				Pop -1
Northern Invaders			Pop -1
Arameans				Pop -1
Famine					Pop -1
Crop Failures				Pop -1
Drought 				Pop -1
Disease					Pop -1



LINKS
Bronze Age Collapse	Wikipedia