THE GAME BOARD
The board shows the 9 regions of Spain, 1 space to hold the Castillo, the success track along the edge of the board, and a round track with 9 game rounds and 3 horizontal scoring tracks. In each region, there is a scoreboard with 3 symbols, which show the values of the region, when it is scored. The player with the most Caballeros in a region scores the highest value, whoever has the second most scores the second value, etc.
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| Basque Country | Catalonia |
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Scoring track |
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GAME LENGTH
The game may be played in 9 or 6 rounds. The game takes around 2 hours for 9 rounds and around 1 hour for 6 rounds. If you want to play the shorter game, you should skip rounds 1, 4, and 7 on the round track.
PREPARATION
•Castillo: Place the castle on the appropriate space on the game board.
•Region cards: Shuffle the nine region cards. Turn up the top card and
place the King in this region. Then, each player takes a card to determine his home region.
•Grande: Each player chooses a color and takes the Grande (the large cube) in his color and places it in his home region.
•Caballeros: Each player takes 10 Caballeros in his color. All remaining Caballeros are kept in a reserve on the table. This reserve is known as the provinces. Each player takes 2 of his initial Caballeros and places them next to his Grande in his home region. Each player also places another Caballero on the first space of the success track. The players put their remaining 7 Caballeros before them on the table. These 7 Caballeros form the player’s court, which will grow and shrink throughout the game.
•Secret disk: Each player takes a secret disk. It shows each region on the board with exception of the Castillo.
•Power cards: Each player takes the set of 13 power cards in his color. The value
•Action cards: These are marked on the back with between 1 and 5 Caballeros. All 11 cards with 1 Caballero form the 1 stack, all 11 cards with 2 Caballeros form the 2 stack, and so on. The 5 stack is made up of just 1 card (the King card). Shuffle each stack separately and place it face down beside the board.
•Mobile scoreboards: Place the two mobile scoreboards beside the board.
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Castillo
Region card
Grande
Caballeros
Secret disk
Power card
Special Scoring: All 5 regions are scored.
