6/1/2023 0 Comments I am dead game reviewIf all three Instability disks are ever played on regions, the game immediately ends with a French invasion! Just like real life. The game can end one of two ways! Invasion Ending You never get your discarded cards back! You’ll only play eight turns over the course of the game. Once the card is resolved and a follower has been summoned, discard it face-up in a pile. Note that that might change how power struggles resolve for that region, so choose wisely. You may not be able to fully carry it out! Either way, once you’ve done that, you must summon a follower to your court by taking any follower from any region (not just the region or regions your action affected) and adding it to the supply in front of you. If you choose to instead play a card and resolve it, you will follow the card to the best of your ability. Once that happens, flip the region card face-down. If one or more cubes are tied for the highest number of cubes of one color, remove them all and add a black Instability disk to that region. If there’s a clear winner, remove all cubes from that region, returning them to the supply on the board, and place a disk of the winner’s color in that region. To resolve that region, check which faction has the most cubes in that region. That is the lowest-numbered face-up region of the cards in the numbered spaces surrounding the board. In the event of a power struggle, you resolve a contested region. If all players pass in sequence, a power struggle occurs. Passing just skips their immediate turn they are still eligible to play or pass on their next turn. If they have no cards left to play, they must pass. On a player’s turn, they must either play a card from their hand or pass. Each player takes turns until either the Invasion ends the game or the Coronation does. Surprisingly, not a lot to say on this front. The victory card (double-sided) gets placed nearby: The Region Cards should be shuffled and placed face up next to each of the numbered spaces on the board: If all players agree, you can replace the Welsh / English / Scottish Support Cards with three random Cunning Action Cards, dealt to each player: The disks matching the cube colors get placed in the supply, to be used later:Įach player gets a set of the same eight action cards: Each player receives a white Negotiation disk, and the black Instability disks get placed on France: For the ones that start with two, you just add two more. Give each player two random followers from the bag, and add cubes to each region on the board so that each region has four follower cubes in it. The two red cubes (Welsh) start in Gwynedd, the two blue (Scottish) cubes start in Moray, and the two yellow cubes (English) start in Essex. Otherwise, set two followers of each color in their faction’s starting area. If playing with two players, return two cubes of each color to the box. This changes a bit based on your player count, but it generally works the same way. Will you be able to elevate yourself to the throne? Contents Just be careful, lest France capitalize on your discord and take over. You likely have a favorite among the factions, but wisdom and prudence dictate that a backup plan might be to your advantage. If you don’t have those, you won’t end up powerless you’ll end up dead. As powerful nobles, you and your fellow players have the means to pit these factions against each other to gain even more power (and perhaps the crown), but you’ll need more than power you’ll need wits. Three factions now have their eyes on the throne, but division is causing instability and nature abhors a vacuum. In The King Is Dead, like The Captain Is Dead, exactly what you’d expect to happen has just happened. Anyways, Osprey has sent a few games in the past, and along with the exceptional Cryptid (and the very very good but difficult-to-review Imperium series), we have The King Is Dead: Second Edition! Haven’t tried the first edition, but let’s see what’s in this one. Something something a photo of Frodo saying, “All right then. I need the extra time to think about it, try and strategize, learn some tactics, pray to a false god or two, make a deal that I’ll regret you know the drill. Sometimes it just takes me a while to review a game because I’m just deeply terrible at it. Full disclosure: A review copy of The King Is Dead was provided by Osprey Games.
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