152 cards. Twelve faces from history. Three languages on every one.

Silver, Ships, Grain and Soldiers. 84 cards, 21 per suit. Silver and Soldiers are heavy money. Ships and Grain are small change. Each suit has its own colour, drawn as real mosaic, three shades of stone in every frame.

Twelve of the 84 carry a face and one line of power. Hannibal can stop a fall. Hasdrubal the Fair shields the Mint. Sophonisba makes an ally draw with you. Maharbal adds a card after the flip. All twelve are real, and their stories are on The City page.

Storm off Cape Bon. Locusts. Numidian Raids. The Debt Falls Due. Nineteen troubles in four families, five drawn per game, and the Siege of Carthage always last.

One each, face down. Five pay for keeping, four for building, three for cunning, and the mix is printed for all to see. The Vulture wants the city to fall. The Patriot needs the Agora alive. The Partner pays two neighbours for voting the same word.

The Cothon, the Granaries, the Walls of Byrsa, the Mint, the Agora. Seven Houses for the politics module, from the House of Barca to the Hundred and Four. And the Sufet card, which changes hands every Act.