The Five Phases of Play in GearWorld

Reading through a twenty-four page rule booklet once can be a painstakingly slow process, but to turn around and read through it a second time is pure joy. In order to understand all the games nuances reading through the rule-book a second time I will do.

The rule-book includes many illustrations, and sidelined boxes that illustrate and describe the games five phases. Here are the five phases with a short description :

1. Build Phase: During this phase, each player any resolve any number of build actions.
2. Production Phase: during this phase players use production tokens they control to produce resources. The production phase is a dynamic phase
3. Trade Phase: During this phase players may resolve any number of Trade Actions to exchange resource tokens with other players.
4. Transport Phase: Players may resolve on transport action to move weapons and resources between land areas, riverboats, ships and bridges they control
5. Battle Phase: During this phase players may resolve up to successful attack actions via attacks on land areas, riverboats, ships and bridges.