Blood Royal

Blood Royal
Verlag:	Games Workshop
Autor:	Derek Carver
Erscheinungsjahr:	1987
Mitspieler:	3 bis 5
Altersempfehlung:	ab 12
Dauer:	ca. 240 Minuten

To be the most powerful of monarchs, you need money. Money to raise armies, money to bribe enemies, money to pay for the marriages of your children. You are the head of a powerful Dynasty, ruler of one of the great Kingdoms of Europe. Ranged against you are equally powerful monarchs, with the same aims - conquest, trade and a secure Dynasty.

Blood Royale is a game of treachery, double-dealing, power politics and open warfare. The aim of the game is to become the wealthiest ruling family in 13th century Europe, and the means of gaining that wealth are the Princes and daughters of your Dynasty and the armies they control.

A comprehensive and well-illustrated set of rules - based on a set of simple core rules, fully detailed with examples and clarifications - allows you to control all the affairs of your Dynasty. You will arrange marriages for your children, to make alliances and secure deals. You will tax the people of your Kingdom, control their trade and find your financial fortunes ebbing and flowing as events take their toll. And you will fight wars against your enemies, to protect your homelands and to take theirs.

Blood Royale is not a role-playing game, or a boardgame, or a simulation game or a wargame - it is all four.

Components

• A six-picce, full-colour board, featuring a map of 13th century Europe.
• 30 plastic playing pieces, to represent Kings and Princes.
• Over 250 counters, to show armies, famines, rebellions and trade goods.
• 96 plastic coins, the currency of Blood Royale.
• A pad of bearer bonds to represent high denominations.
• A pad of character sheets, to record individual characters.
• A pad of marriage contracts, on which treaties are recorded.
• 63 Event Cards, which lead to opportunity or mishap.
• 3 six-sided dice and
• 1 ten-sided die.
• A 24 pages rulebook, with designers notes and hints on play

The game

Up to five players control one of the major blood lines of the middle ages and must guide their dynasty of family members through the ages as they attempt to gain the most wealth through diplomatic, economic and military means.

Taking a unique twist on your typical multiplayer wargame, Blood Royale downplays the war aspect of the game and makes the dynastic families political fortunes as the heart and soul of the game. Players must utilize their family members well if they wish to create a stable seat of power in their country and in the rest of Europe.

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