Strategy Phase

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During this phase, each player chooses a strategy card. These cards provide players with powerful abilities to use during the action phase. Each card also has a number that determines turn order for the game round, known as "initiative order."
* Step 1: Beginning with the speaker and continuing clockwise, each player chooses one of the strategy cards from the common play area and places it face-up near their faction sheet. 
** When playing with three or four players, after the last player has received their first strategy card, each player chooses a second strategy card, starting with the speaker and proceeding clockwise.
* Step 2: After each player has chosen a strategy card, the speaker places one trade good on each strategy card that was not chosen. During future strategy phases, when a player chooses a strategy card that has one or more trade goods on it, they gain those trade goods.
After these steps, players proceed to the action phase.
==Strategy Cards==
1) Leadership	2) Diplomacy
3) Politics 	4) Construction
5) Trade 	6) Warfare
7) Technology	8) Imperial