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Keep 20 tokens on the board: tokens expand, not city.

Don't have me as an opponent.

- work on acquiring 2 or 3 sets of trade cards at the same time.
- try to keep a set of trade cards in your hand from turn to turn. go into a trading round with strength!
- have a clear buying path for Civ cards. Have to be a bit flexible on this, but knowing what you need in trade card points before starting to trade helps a bunch.

- keep a good flow of tokens from board, supply, and money.

- if you have a civ in mind to play, note the terrain around you and have an idea of where you want all your cities, and where you want borders with your neighbors to be.

- depending upon your group, it may be advisable to stop at one of the early barriers on the AST to put you in a better overall position for later. I often find the 2nd barrier (3 colors of civ cards?) is a good place to pause for a turn while collecting much better civ cards.

Most importantly: Have Fun!!!

Be Egypt.

Unless you want to travel and meet the -25C degrees we have here at the moment I doubt that this is a threat.

Proper advice:

Remember that the game is won by maintaining a healthy number of cities and that disasters are temporary, if you have bought the right cards.

Don't fight if you don't have to. If someone is sitting on more than 9 city sites be sure it point out to the other players how greedy they are (unless it is you).

When you have that one off 5/6/7/8 card and someone is trading take into account the point increase they get from going from say 4 to 5 cards of that type vs what you're getting in return.

It's a random draw but I do my best...

In the many games I have played Egypt is rarely the winner. Maybe its because the less experienced players tend to grab for it. That and the two "best" players in the games I've been in (generally my sister and myself) dont often take Egypt even when it is available (Crete is much more interesting to play! As is North Africa - and they can really make Egypt's game more difficult).

I believe that Egypt has about the worst AST position considering the barriers - they hit all of them before anyone else. So very quickly you can become one to two positions behind on the AST - or you will have bought really cheap cards early - and those points can cost you the game in the end.

I don't usually do this, but, if you're going to attack other people it might be a good idea to do a two pronged approach.

Trading....this is where I tend to mess up.

if you think that person is getting the last Spice card and you're getting a pair of Salt...is it worth it to you?

As Egypt I will gernerally fall behind at the first AST progression (2 cities) and then it's pretty easy going from there. Other players will usually fall behind at some point, so it evens out eventually. Only other thing Egypt has to worry about is the damn floods and if there is no African player, Egypt is just too darn easy.

Don't fight if you don't have to.

I have heard a prediction that we'll encounter a bit more violent game than usual. So don't be my neighbour and you'll have a chance to finish second.

And Sonja says that you should beat Tuomas.

one of the empires (the yellow one)

there will be a calamity that comes out,(either Piracy or Barbarian Hordes, I forget which) which has invaders come into your start zone and start hacking into your population.