# Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game – Wisdom and Warfare

Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game – Wisdom and Warfare is a board game for 2–4 players. It plays in 180 minutes and is meant for ages 14 and up. Ludoya players call it best with 4. It is rated 8 out of 10 by 4 Ludoya reviewers.

- **Players:** 2–4 (best with 4)
- **Playing time:** 180 minutes
- **Minimum age:** 14+
- **Complexity:** 4 out of 5
- **Year published:** 2013
- **Categories:** Expansion for Base-game, Negotiation, Civilization, Exploration, Video Game Theme
- **Mechanics:** Grid Movement, Variable Player Powers, Hand Management, Modular Board, Rock-Paper-Scissors, Trading, Simultaneous Action Selection
- **Ludoya rating:** 8 out of 10, from 4 reviews
- **Owned by:** 26 Ludoya players
- **Plays logged on Ludoya:** 16
- **Unique players:** 18

**Designers:** Michael Hurley, Kevin Wilson, Lukas Litzsinger

**Artists:** Henning Ludvigsen

## Rules questions

### How does the new “Start a building program” city action work — does it permanently double my city’s production?

You place a building program marker on the city; the next time that city is used to produce a figure/unit/building/wonder the marker is discarded and the city’s outskirts production is doubled for that single produce action only (it does not double production from other sources and any excess is wasted). (p.7)

### When I win a battle, how does looting work and when do I spend loot?

If the loser had figures the winner gains 1 loot (2 loot if the loser was defending a non-capital city; capturing a capital is an immediate military victory), and the winner immediately spends the loot to purchase effects from the loot table, buying as many effects as their loot allows (they may buy the same effect multiple times). (p.6)

### On replacement unit cards, what do Strength and Health mean and how are wounds resolved?

Strength is the wounds a unit deals when it attacks and health is how many wounds it can take before being killed; killed units are returned faceup to the bottom of their original unit deck, and after both players finish playing battle forces you total surviving units’ health minus wounds plus any combat bonus to determine the battle winner (ties favor the defender). (pp.8–9)

### Can I play a unit onto a battle front that already has two engaged units?

No — units cannot attack an existing front that already has two units engaged on it; if all available fronts are fully engaged you must start a new front. (p.8)

### How do social policies work — how many can I have and when do I adopt or lose them?

Your social policy maximum equals your number of built cities (each civilization starts with a maximum of 1, except the French who start at 2); whenever your maximum increases you must immediately adopt a new social policy, and whenever it decreases you must return one adopted policy to the unused pile (switching policies is normally not allowed except via specific effects). (p.10)

### What happens when I discover a city-state or a relic from a hut/village?

Finding a city-state places a city-state marker on that square; you control it while you have a figure there and it counts as outskirts of your capital, granting small recurring bonuses, while relics place a relic marker that prevents building/altering the square until an army ends movement there to remove the marker and immediately grant the relic’s one-time effect (e.g., Ark = two culture advances; Attila’s Village = two free unlocked units). (pp.9,11–12)

## Links

- [This page](https://www.ludoya.com/games/sid-meiers-civilization-the-board-game-wisdom-and-warfare)
- [Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game – Wisdom and Warfare in the Ludoya app](https://app.ludoya.com/g/sid-meiers-civilization-the-board-game-wisdom-and-warfare)
- [BoardGameGeek entry](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/142708)

_Data from Ludoya, updated 2026-09-23. Ratings, ownership and play counts are Ludoya's own._