Setup
Each player has to choose a unique name and color.
You can also select a mission:
- Dominate the World
- Capture Europe, Australia and one other continent
- Capture Europe, South America and one other continent
- Capture North America and Africa
- Capture North America and Australia
- Capture Asia and South America
- Capture Asia and Africa
- Capture 24 territories
- Capture 18 territories and occupy each with two troops
- Destroy all armies of a specific color
Prepare
- Choose terretories using turns
- Recieve armies and devide them over your contries
- 2 players: 40 armies
- 3 players: 35 armies
- 4 players: 30 armies
- 5 players: 25 armies
- 6 players: 20 armies
Play
- Recieve new armies and devide them over your contries
- Divide number of territories by 3, floor fraction
- Get bonus by occupying a whole continent
- Get more armies by trading cards
- If you have 5 or 6 cards, you have to trade
- Possible combinations
- 3 cards of same design (Infantry, Cavalry, or Artillery)
- 1 each of 3 designs (Infantry + Cavalry + Artillery)
- Any 2 plus a "wild" card
- Worth:
- 1st set in game: 4 armies
- 2nd-5th set in game: each time +2
- 6th set in game: 15 armies
- 7th+ set in game: each time +5
- Attack opponents
- You can only attack from a territory with at least 2 armies
- Roll dice
- If you have 2 armies, you roll one dice
- If you have 3 armies, you roll two dice
- If you have 4+ armies, you roll three dice
- If your opponent has 1 army, he/she rolls one dice
- If your opponent has 2+ armies, he/she rolls two dice
- Dicide winner
- Sort results in descending order
- Compare the first (and, if present) second result
- A higher dice wins from a lower dice, the loser loses one army
- In case of a tie, the defender always wins
- Retreat or roll again
- If you eliminate an opponent you get all his/her cards
- If this gives you to 6+ cards you have to trade until your cards are reduced to 4-2
- Fortifying your position by moving armies from one to another territory
- Recieve 1 card if you have captured at least 1 territory
- Complete your mission