Aqueduct

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Aqueduct
Info
Type Landmark
Set Empires
Illustrator(s) Donald Crank
Landmark text
When you gain a Treasure, move 1VP from its pile to this. When you gain a Victory card, take the VP from this.
Setup: Put 8VP on the Silver and Gold piles.

Aqueduct is a Landmark from Empires. It acts kind of like a Gathering card, accumulating VP tokens as players gain Treasures, and then giving them to a player when they gain a Victory card.

FAQ

Official FAQ

  • If you gain a card that is both a Treasure and a Victory card, such as Humble Castle, you can resolve the abilities in either order.

Other rules clarifications

  • Aqueduct only puts VP on Silver and Gold, but if you gain a different Treasure in the Supply that has VP on it, you'll move 1 VP to Aqueduct. For example:
  • If the card you gain is both a Treasure and an Action (because of Capitalism, or because it's Crown), you move 1 VP each to Aqueduct and Defiled Shrine. If there's only 1 VP on the pile, you choose which Landmark to move it to.
  • If you gain a Treasure from somewhere other than the Supply (e.g. gaining a Gold from the trash with Treasurer), you'll still move the VP tokens from that card's pile.
  • If gaining a Victory card causes you to gain a Treasure (e.g. Hoard makes you gain a Gold), you can move the VP from the Treasure pile to Aqueduct, and then immediately take them.

Strategy

Because people tend to start with silver and gold may be either easy to obtain or actually valuable as payload, there is a high probability that there will land some tokens on Aqueduct. Just like Battlefield, this may incentivise a slightly sooner greening stage or at least a single gain of a good victory card, maybe an early Cemetery. There is also the possibility for a gimmicky "megaturn", such as overpaying a lot for masterpiece, to then put all of the 8 points on Aqueduct and then buying a single Estate or even a feodom, if available. This beats out the point gain of a province and helps the deck more, if your deck can handle the 10 stop cards. This strategy, more than any other megaturn suffers from 4 or 5 player games, because chances are high somebody else already took the points before the megaturn can happen.

Versions

English versions

Print Digital Text Release Date
Aqueduct Aqueduct from Shuffle iT When you gain a Treasure, move 1VP from its pile to this. When you gain a Victory card, take the VP from this.
Setup: Put 8VP on the Silver and Gold piles.
Empires June 2016

Other language versions

Language Name Print Digital Text Notes
Dutch Aquaduct Als je een geldkaart pakt verplaats 1VP van diens stapel naar deze
kaart. Pak je een overwinningskaart, neem dan alle VP van deze kaart.
Voorbereiding: Leg 8VP op zowel Zilver- als Goudstapel.
(2016)
Finnish Akvedukti
French Aqueduc
German Aquädukt German language Aqueduct 2016 by ASS Wenn du ein Geld nimmst, nimm 1 -Marker von jenem Stapel und lege ihn auf diese Karte. Wenn du eine Punktekarte nimmst, nimm alle -Marker von dieser Karte.
Spielvorbereitung: Legt je 8 -Marker auf den Silber- und Gold-Vorratsstapel.
(2016)
German Aquädukt German language Aqueduct from Shuffle iT Wenn du ein Geld nimmst, lege 1VP von dessen Stapel hierher. Wenn du eine Punktekarte nimmst, nimm alle VP von hier.
Spielvorbereitung: Legt je 8VP auf die Gold- und Silber-Vorratsstapel.
2. Edition
(2021)
Japanese 水道橋 (pron. suidōkyō) あなたが財宝カード1枚を獲得するとき、その山の上の1VPをこの上に移動する。あなたが勝利点カード1枚を獲得するとき、この上のVPを得る。
準備:銀貨•金貨の山の上に8VP置く。
Polish Akwedukt Polish language Aqueduct Kiedy dodajesz kartę Skarbu, przenieś tutaj 1VP z jej stosu. Kiedy dodajesz kartę Zwycięstwa, weź wszystkie leżące tu VP.
Przygotowanie: połóż po 8VP na stosach Srebrników i Złota.
(2017)
Russian Акведук (pron. akvyeduk)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

This started out putting 5 VP on each Treasure pile. I liked that but you only have so many VP tokens. I played around with how to cut down on tokens and ended up with 8 each on Silver and Gold.


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