Long before the Inkan (aka Incan) Empire rose to dominance in Peru, many advanced indigenous cultures developed and declined in the Andean regions of South America. Catan: Rise of the Inkas confronts you with new strategic challenges as play. Development works in much the same as the core mechanics of Catan build roads and settlements, gain development cards to give you an advantage, and utilize the robber to hinder your opponents. However, eventually your early tribes reach their pinnacle and are supplanted. As you play Rise of the Inkas, you must twice decline your early tribes to make way for a new tribe's era. You remove all your constructed roads from the board and cover your settlements in vines to denote that these may no longer be developed. But your game doesn't end there. When your tribe goes into decline, you place a new settlement on an available board space and continue the game using this new settlement. Timing is an important part of your strategy as you play Catan: Rise of the Inkas, take advantage of your opponent’s settlements in decline to set yourself up to claim victory. What's in the box Contents include 29 terrain hexes, 8 frame pieces, 27 number tokens, 4 culture boards, 44 culture markers, 2 advantage cards, 4 overview cards, 100 resource cards, 36 goods cards, 20 development cards, 68 player pieces, 16 thicket pieces, 1 robber piece (with a llama!), 2 dice, 3 card holders, 1 rules book, 1 almanac.