Greetings dear board game aficionados!

Yesterday me and four of my friends played TI for the second time, and the first time with the strategic cards from Shattered Empire. We played it for a long time and never finished fully, yours truly "won" after a while with 6 points. However…when we played with the original strategic cards one of the cards (imperium or politial perhaps) had the active player draw a new objective card. But with the new strategic cards no such function exist and we were pretty much stuck with the same ten OCs the whole game. What did we do wrong?

Read Bureaucracy a little more closely. It's more complicated than Imperial I and II, but it does get you to reveal new objectives every time it gets picked.

I don't have the SCs or the game manuals with me at the moment, but doesn't Imperium II simply replace Imperium from the base game? Bureaucracy is a card from shards of the throne, no?

Both Imperial II and Bureaucracy are in Shattered Empire. Either can be used to replace Imperial from the original game.

Kerrin2 said:

This is confusing. I'm reading the Imperial II card right now (p. 14 in the shattered empire booklet) and nowhere does it state that you get to reveal additional objective cards. So…if playing with the new SCs found in shattered empire we MUST use the bureaucracy card as that is the only way to get more objectives? In that case I don't understand what purpose the imperial II card serves at all.

Ah, figured it out. I made several errors when we played. First, I didn't separate the old and new objective decks, but rather mixed them. Second, I used imperial II without noticing that the card is only to be used with a certain other optional rule. And third, I mixed the objective cards a bit wrong so we got no stage two cards. Wow…this was a bad case of RTFM!

Ah shoot, I should have mentioned the Age Of Empires rule in my previous post. Glad you figured it out though!