I'm a bit confused about how Border Tracks work. The rules use the term "A Single Border Track" and "The Border Track" in a few places so I'm not sure what counts. For example, it says that the game ends when all the attacks fill up on "A Single Border Track". Does that mean when there have been five attacks in the "North" or when there have been 20 attacks? Or there's the rule about losing a die if there are three undefended attacks. Does that mean three daggers marked anywhere on your sheet? Or three in the same segment (i.e. three in the North). Also, does it mean that there was no defense when the attack initially happened or does it mean if you end up piling up 3 with empty defenses (in other words. Can you build borders under filled in daggers to "cancel" them and you just have to try not to let 3 build up?) I also have a question about how Adventurers work. Do you have to write a number before you can do the optional uses? In other words, if I have an adventurer on a track and I've done 5,6,7,8 and then I roll a total of 4, could I use the adventurer action to call that guy home, or can I only do that if I roll a 9 because I have to write in the number and then do the optional bit? Also, it seems like once you lose a die you no longer have a reason to bother building that mine, so it seems unlikely that the mine building game end would trigger unless someone was just really good at building walls. Another question, are you allowed to have more than one adventurer out at a time? Lastly, I see that there is a tech points tracker thing. Is that just a tracker of how many techs you've built such that you mark it every time you do a tech in order to keep track of points? Or is it like a separate group of techs that is just for farming points?
Hi, a lot of questions! I’ll try to catch them all :)
Borders/attacks/defences:
- The game ends when there are five attacks on a single border track, ie. 5 on the North track
- Losing a die also works in regards to a single track, so if there are three undefended attacks on the North track you lose a die.
- You can (and are encouraged to!) fill defences under an already marked Attack. This cancels them.
Adventures:
- You must write a number before taking the optional actions.
- You can have multiple adventures active at the same time.
Losing dice:
- Correct, there’s not much reason to build a mine in a space with a destroyed die. However, the mines must go somewhere if you bring them back from an adventure, so it’s still possible to fill up all your mines without defending your borders.
Tech tracks:
- The technologies worth points are a seperate track that must be marked (instead of buying a technology that does something useful). This one I’ll try to fix up the graphic design for so it’s a bit clearer.
Thanks for playing!
Dude, thanks for swiftly answering all of my questions and for making this and Mausritter. Keep up the solid work. Just one more quick question. If you take the optional rule to spend food to push further down the adventure track, can you do that multiple times or just once? Also, if I'm understanding your clarification on the borders then there's no reason to build more than three defenses in a given border because there are only 5 daggers and so if you build 3 defenses then that border is now safe.
Sick. I played this game solo today more time than I care to admit. Nice work. Also, unrelated to this, I built a one shot adventure for Mausritter and I just got done running it for Virtual Kobold Con and the players all really liked it. I would love to put some finishing touches on it and provide it to you to use as an intro adventure.