The expansion comes in a box that contains almost as much content as the original game and takes the experience into another dimension. In Contractors we find 10 new guilds that can be combined with those from the basic game, 6 additional blueprint cards, and a new card for the solo mode. Many of these new guilds use the Contractors module, which among other things, adds a new board containing a map of Russia. We Will send our contractors throughout Russia to recruit the talent of the best specialists and artisans of the country to aid in the construction of the cathedral.

As in the original game, each of these guilds contains 3 different cards, of which one per guild can be included into the game, meaning that Contractors offers 30 new different ways to play The Red Cathedral. And among other highlights are a black die that can be used alongside the 5 existing dice used to obtain resources, diamonds which serve as a wild-card form of resource, and the contractors, which are Cossack meeples that incorporate a worker placement element into the game.

SLEEVING:

52 cards size 45x68mm (mini euro)

COMPONENTS:

Cardboard:

1 Grand Duchy of Moscow board (30.3x21cm)

4 Workshop board (player board) extensions (in player colors; 21x10.5cm)

1 new Resource tile (round; 1 Permit)

4 new Workshop tiles (square; 2 granting 1 Permit, 2 granting the Specialist’s black die - 1 each for any player count, 1 each for 3+ players)

6 City tiles (shield-shaped; Moscow, Novgorod, Ryazan, Suzdal, Vologda)

24 Permit tokens

24 Specialist tiles (8-pointed stars; 4 of each tool type - orange wood chisel, yellow plane, purple saw, green drill, red tongs, blue mallet)

8 Reinforcement tiles (octagonal; for the Brick Makers guild)

1 Ivan’s marker (round; SOLO)

52 Cards (44x68mm):

6 new Building Plan cards (2 each player count; distinguished from the base game plans by being narrower and taller buildings)

30 Guild cards (3 for each guild - Archivists, Artisans, Brick Makers, Contractors, Foremen, Jewelers, Lawyers, Managers, Master Builders, Wholesalers; cards with a “C” in the lower left corner can be used only with the Contractors expansion)

15 Contract cards (for the Archivists guild)

1 Solo card (showing a Contractor pawn)

Wood:

1 Foreman (black; for the Foremen guild)

24 Contractor pawns (6x each player color)

Plastic:

1 Die (16mm black d6 Specialist die)

15 Diamonds (clear translucent acrylic faceted diamond-shaped)

5 Rulebooks (16 p. each; English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan).

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