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Cardinals Guards

Cardinals Guards

  • Description
    A Solitary Confinement game for the piecepackThe year is 1626, and France is under the control of Cardinal Richelieu. The King and Queen are weak, and there is no love lost between the Kings musketeers and the Cardinals guards. In a castle in Normandy, four musketeers have just broken out of solitary confinement. The castle is well garrisoned, with a full company of the Cardinals guards, but the musketeers are determined to locate evidence of the Cardinals treachery against the King, that they know is somewhere within the castle. They form a plan each musketeer will search a different set of particular halls and chambers, and then attempt to escape from the castle while defeating as many guards as possible. Hopefully the musketeer with the evidence will reach the King. The task ahead wont be easy, but there is hope, and the musketeers have knowledge of a secret network of underground passages beneath the castle that the guards are unaware of.In Cardinals Guards, the player moves the musketeers around the castle, defeating or luring guards, while searching various chambers, before trying to escape. The musketeers are represented by the four pawns. The coins represent the guards. The tiles represent castle chambers. The dice are used to keep track of the chambers searched. The players score at the end of the game is based upon the number of chambers searched, the number of guards defeated, and the number of musketeers who escape.Available at: http://www.piecepack.org/rules/CardinalsGuards.pdf - BoardGameGeek
  • Details
    Ages: 0 and up
    Category: Renaissance
    Family: Piecepack Games
    Players: 1 to 1
    PrimaryName: Cardinals Guards
    Product Title: Cardinals Guards
    Publisher: (Web published)
    Time: 20 minutes
    Year: 2003