Ich habe bisher nur eine Partie der neuen Version auf boardgaming-online.de gespielt.
Da gibt es auch eine Zusammenfassung der Regeländerungen. Ich zitiere hier mal die Kurzversion:
(Ich habe mal die Kommentare rausgeschnitten, die begründen, warum diese Änderungen gemacht wurden.)
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Each player starts with 16 blue tokens in his blue bank.
Corruption is now evaluated at the start of the maintenance, before harvesting and food consumption. Check your blue bank: if the -2, -4 or -6 space is empty, you have to return that much resources. If you have not enough resources, you return all you have and then return food to cover the difference.
Leader Change
When you replace a leader by another leader, you get one civil action back.
Limits
There are no longer limits on military strength, science or culture growth, or science points.
Discarding Military Cards
Excess military cards are now discarded at the end of your turn (before maintenance), not at its start (after politics).
TacticsYou can play a tactic card for one military action, as usual. In addition, you mark it by your "tactic token" (a token in your color).
At the start of your next turn, you put the tactic to the middle (to the Tactic board), together with your token. You are still using it.
Any player can spend 2 military actions to copy the tactic - he puts his tactic token on any tactic card on the Tactic board.
There may be any amount of tokens on a tactic card. Each player may have only one tactic, though (as he has only one tactic token).
Tactics remains on the tactic board even when all players abandon them (either because of playing a new tactic or because of copying another tactic on the tactic board).
Defense against Aggressions
When defending against aggression Defender can play defense cards. In addition, any military card can be discarded as Defense 1 (regardless of its age).
Total amount of played Defense cards and military cards discarded as Defense 1 cannot exceed full amount of military actions the player has.
Sacrificing
Sacrificing of units in order to increase strength is no longer allowed in Aggressions or Wars.
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Zusätzlich wurden noch einige Karten überarbeitet, so dass die Karten ausgeglichener und teilweise interessanter sind.
Mir hat das Spiel mit den neuen Regeln gut gefallen. Ob es jetzt jemanden anspricht, der das Ursprüngliche Spiel nicht mochte, kann ich nicht sagen.