Aqueduct

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

Aqueduct is a Landmark from Empires. It acts kind of like a Gathering card, accumulating   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   on Silver and Gold, but if you gain a different Treasure in the Supply that has   on it, you'll move 1  to Aqueduct. For example:
  • If you have Capitalism and then gain a Farmers' Market, you'll move 1  from the pile onto Aqueduct.
  • Action Supply piles can have   on them due to Defiled Shrine. If you rotate to e.g. Sunken Treasure, then gaining it would move 1  to Aqueduct.
• If the card you gain is both a Treasure and an Action (because of Capitalism, or because it's Crown), you move 1  each to Aqueduct and Defiled Shrine. If there's only 1  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   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   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 a 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
		When you gain a Treasure, move 1  from its pile to this. When you gain a Victory card, take the   from this. Setup: Put 8  on the Silver and Gold piles.	Empires	June 2016

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Dutch	Aquaduct
Finnish	Akvedukti
French	Aqueduc
German	Aquädukt			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			Wenn du ein Geld nimmst, lege 1  von dessen Stapel hierher. Wenn du eine Punktekarte nimmst, nimm alle   von hier. Spielvorbereitung: Legt je 8  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1 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 を得る。 準備:銀貨•金貨の山の上に8 置く。
Polish	Akwedukt			Kiedy dodajesz kartę Skarbu, przenieś tutaj 1  z jej stosu. Kiedy dodajesz kartę Zwycięstwa, weź wszystkie leżące tu  . Przygotowanie: połóż po 8  na stosach Srebrników i Złota.	(2017)
Russian	Акведук (pron. akvyeduk)

Trivia

Official card art.

Secret History

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

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Empires Cards