Forum Trajanum Solo Play
Forum Trajanum Solo Play
Forum Trajanum Solo Play
SoloPlay Rules
Original game design Stefan Feld (2019, Stronghold Games)
Additional rules 2020 SoloPlayTM (BGG User: GameRulesforOne)
Introduction: The competition has walked out frustrated by the perceived abuse of the emperor.
Never before have the artisan populous revolted in this fashion. It is now up to you to meet the needs
of the electorate while threatening the walkers with your highly skilled work. If you can gain the favor
of the emperor, your standing will rise and become the envy of all architects. With this solo challenge
you can play with 3 different game modes based on your skill level with the game.
Goal: Reach a scoring goal after 3 rounds (12 turns) have been completed.
Setup: (the level of play can be adjusted as noted in the setup)
1) Place the game board in the center of your play area
2) Retrieve one player board. You can play on either side.
3) Retrieve all your components of a single color
a) Setup your player board using the normal rules (randomly choose a female tile as a
starting citizen and populate your board)
b) Place your scoring marker on the zero space
c) Place the forum markers next to each forum track
d) Place the slider in the leftmost position
4) Retrieve all male tiles for another color, mix and place next to the game board (other color
tile supply)
5) Shuffle the Trajan cards and draw one card for each cycle (I, II and III). Place these in the
noted spaces on/next to the board.
a) Setup Note: If the cycle III Trajan card with the forum marker next to Trajan column
goal, you may make the following adjustment based on the level of the game that you
chose to play:
i) Easy: Advance one forum marker 2 spaces forward (do not collect the rewards)
ii) Normal: Advance one forum marker 1 space forward (do not collect reward)
iii) Expert: No advancement
6) Shuffle the street cards and separate into 3 stacks of 8 cards.
7) Setup the building tiles:
a) Double tiles:
i) Retrieve 4 of each color; place the remaining tiles back into the box
ii) Shuffle the tiles (double color up) and place one tile on each space from left to right
(1) Balancing Tile Display: If a tile of a color is already placed, flip the tile to the
opposite side (gray/color). If a tile placed before is gray/color then place on the
two color side. This means you always alternate the tiles sides for like colors.
iii) Place the remaining 8 tiles next to the board
b) Single tiles:
i) Retrieve 6 of each color; place the remaining tiles back into the box
ii) Shuffle the tiles (color side up) and split into 2 equal stacks next to each single
space row. The tiles next to each row will fill only its row.
(1) Going left to right, top to bottom, place one tile on each space
(a) Balancing Tile Display: If a tile of a color has already been placed flip the
tile to the forum side. If there are an equal number of each side of a color
tile placed, you can choose which side to be placed up with the next
Single and double tile rows must be balanced between sides of each color tile