Playing the Game, Turn over the action cards

Round marker goes on the Round track

	You can prevent	Special
Intrigue:	one special action	Scoring:
Move all of	during this round	All 4 regions
your own	or the next round.	are scored.
Caballeros

Action cards

This power card allows a player to take 3 Caballeros into his court.

PLAYING THE GAME

A game round consists of the following actions:

•Move the round marker forward on the round track

•Turn cover the top action card in each stack

•Play the power cards

•Each player takes his turn (turn sequence is determined by the value of the power cards played)

Round marker (small black cube)

At the start of the game, the round marker is placed on the 1 space of the round track (in the short game, the round marker begins on space 2). Each round after the first, the counter is moved one space further along the track. General scoring occurs at the end of the 3rd, 6th, and 9th rounds (when the round marker is moved along the scoring track).

Turn over the action cards

The top card in each stack is turned face up.

The players should read and consider which of the actions they would like to see executed and which they would gladly prevent.

Play the power cards

In the first round, the players choose a player to begin. In subsequent rounds, the player who played last in the previous round begins. The remaining players follow clockwise around the table. The power cards are played face up. Once a particular value has been played, later players may not play this card in this round. All power cards played must have different values! Once played, the player leaves the cards face up on the table in a stack, so only the top-most is visible. They are not returned to a player’s hand. They determine:

•The turn order: the player who played the card with the highest value takes his turn first, then the player that played the second highest card, etc.

•The number of their Caballeros that they can move from the provinces to their courts.

Player turns

The player who played the highest power card takes his turn first. A turn is made up of the following actions in the given order:

1.Move Caballeros from the provinces to the court.

The player moves at most the number of Caballeros shown on the power card from the provinces to his court. If there are not enough of this player's Caballeros in the provinces, the player may remove Caballeros from the board to make up the difference.

2.Choose an action card

Select an action card from those displayed face up. Each action card allows two actions:

•The stated number of Caballeros may be moved from the player's court to the board.

•Execute or prevent the action described by the picture and text.

IMPORTANT: EACH PLAYER MAY DECIDE WHETHER TO PLACE HIS CABALLEROS ON THE BOARD BEFORE OR AFTER EXECUTING OR NOT

EXECUTING THE SPECIAL ACTION.

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