JuntaVivaelPresidente--EnglishRules

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Junta: Viva el Presidente

Several years have passed since the island was afflicted by unrest and attempted coups.

Since then, the army has become mostly irrelevant. In its place, private militias do the dirty

work. The members of the Junta live a reclusive life in grandiose estates financed by theirSwiss bank accounts. The players belong to this Junta and now command their own private

militias. And, as before, they rob their opponents unscrupulously and ambush the president

as often as they can in order to become president themselves. The players must pocket as

much development aid as possible, use this to hire new militias and extend their estates.

The player who does this the fastest wins the game.

Vital Statistics

Players: 4~5

Game Time: 45 min ~ 1 hourSetup Time: 5 min (10 min if the box has just been opened)

Idea: Politics, game theory

Objective

The first player to reach 5 victory points (6 if playing the expert version) wins the game. Each

building on a players estate contributes a victory point, as well as two of the cards in the

pack. If playing the expert version, possessing the presidents sunglasses is worth a victory

point too.

Components

5 estates, each a different colour

25 building tokens

5 overview cards, each a different colour

45 game cards

20 dice, divided into five groups of 4 dice each matching the estate colours

5 foldout cardboard screens, in the form of a camouflaged troop transport vehicle

The presidents sunglasses

Preparing to play

Each player chooses a colour, and receives the estate of that colour, an overview card of

that colour, a single die of that colour representing their first militia, and a screen. Each

player rolls a die, and the highest roll becomes the president. Ties are rerolled. The game

cards are shuffled and placed face down in the centre of the playing area.

Game Play

The game proceeds in a series of rounds each consisting of 6 phases, which are outlined


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on the overview card, and detailed below. The game ends when a player achieves 5 victory

points (or 6 if playing the expert version).

Phase 1: Draw cards

The president starts the round by receiving the lions share of development aid, in the form

drawing cards from the face down pack. The president draws a number of cards equal tothe number of players plus 2. Proceeding clockwise from the president, each player draws

a single card for themselves. In the first round the players may draw two two cards if the are

not the president. The cards consist mainly of aid money in denominations of 1 Million, 2

Million, or 3 Million pesos, some action cards which can assist in coup attempts or perform

other functions, and two victory point cards, the yacht and the luxury sports vehicle. Cards

that are played, or money spent, is placed face up on a discard pile. If the pack is depleted,

the discard pile is shuffled and placed face down to become a new pack.

Phase 2: Make promises

The president is always in a weak position, militarily. They may not attack other players,and their militias are weak. As such the president must rely on their cronies to defend them,

and the cronies expect compensation. The president makes promises to each of the other

players by placing at least one card from the their own hand (the presidents) onto the

promissory area of each other players estate. The other players may look at the cards they

have received, but do not take them up into their hands just yet. Players are free to bargain,

bluff, threaten, or otherwise negotiate a better promise out of the president, and are not

obliged to honour any agreements they make.

If playing the expert version, the president may also, but is not required to, loan one or more

(up to their current total) militia dice to another player (or players). To do so, the presidentplaces the loaned militia dice on the promissory area of the appropriate players estate. The

president decides on the orders issued (See Phase 3: Issuing orders to militia) to those

militias they loan to other players, as long as those militias loaned neither attack nor defend

the president. These orders will be freely visible to all players.

Phase 3: Issuing orders to militias

Orders are issued to militias by placing the militia dice behind the screen, with the intended

action for each militia represented by the number displayed on the upwards facing side of

the die. Each militia may be ordered independently of the others. Note that each estate

has a number (indicated by the picture of the die at the top centre of the estate board). The

president must always order all their militias to defend their own estate, i.e. the president

may not attack other players. The other players may order their militias as follows

Defend their own estates by displaying the number of their own estates

Attack an opponents estate by displaying the number of the estate they want to

attack, which can be the presidents or any other players. Note that multiple players

may attack the same estate, in which case their forces are combined.

Defend the presidents estate by displaying a 6

Once everyone has issued their orders, in secret, behind the screen, the president issues

the order to lift the screens, and everyone reveals their militias orders simultaneously.


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Phase 4: Battle

Starting with attacks on the president, battles are resolved clockwise by estate, each battle

consisting of four sub phases.

1. If the defender has applicable cards, they may be played now by revealing them and

then discarding the face up onto the discard pile.2. If the attackers have applicable cards they may be played now by revealing them and

then discarding the face up onto the discard pile.

3. All the militia dice which are involved in the attack or defence of the estate are rolled,

e.g. If the red player issues orders to attack the blue players estate with one militia

and with their second militia issues order, red only rolls the die assigned to attack

blue.

a. The defenders score is equal to the total number of buildings on their estate

(including the main mansion) plus the sum of the dice rolls of the militias

assigned to the defence of the estate. Note that the president neverrolls their

own militia dice, as they always automatically roll 1s, however, dice otherplayers assign to defend the president may be rolled as normal.

b. The attackers have an attack score equal to the sum of the dice rolls of those

militia assigned to attack the estate.

c. If the attack score is equal to or less than the defence score the attack fails. If

an attack is successful, attackers may loot

d. If the attack score exceeds defence score, the attack is successful, and the

attackers may loot the defenders estate by taking cards pulled randomly from

the defenders hand. The attackers loot in descending order of their personal

attack scores. If a defender has less cards than there are attackers, those

attackers who are too low in the looting ranks get nothing. If the defenderis the president, they relinquish the presidency, i.e. they hand over the

sunglasses, to the attacker with the highest personal attack score at the end

of phase 4, after all other battles have been resolved. In the case of a tie for

highest personal attack score, the tie is broken by an additional dice roll.

If an attack against the president was successful, no player receives their promised cards;

they are all discarded. If the president is not attacked, or an attack against the president was

not successful, those players who did not attack the president may take the cards up from

the promissory field of their estate into their own hands.

If using the expert rules, players that roll a 1 on a militia die may nominate one opponents

militia die for each 1 they rolled to be destroyed, i.e. removed from the players active milita

pool. It may be purchased again normally.

If using the expert rules, players that have been loaned a militia by the president, but who

attack the president nonetheless, must return the loaned militia immediately after the battle

for the presidents estate. Loaned militias act as if they were the recipients own militias, with

the following exceptions:

Loaned militias must and will execute the orders specified by the president upon

making the promise

Where cards that affect the Militias of the president are concerned, the loaned


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militias count as Militias of the president

The recipient of the loaned militia may roll the loaned militia dice normally, they are

not automatically 1s.

The president is not considered an attacker or defender in any battle their loaned

militia take part in, and thus the president can not loot, nor be looted.

Once all battles have been resolved, the loaned militias are returned to the president,assuming they were not destroyed during a battle.

Phase 5: Spend money

During this phase, players may spend their money (cards with various denominations of

pesos) on

Drawing a card (max once per turn) - 1m Pesos

Buy 1 militia (max. 4) - 2m Pesos

Buy a building - 4m Pesos

To purchase, players simply discard their pesos or equal or greater value to their total

purchases. They do not receive change.

If any player has a total of 5 (6 if playing the expert version) or more victory points at the

end of this phase they win. Note that players only check for this condition at the end of this

phase, players do not immediately win upon getting their final victory point. This allows for

the possibility of multiple players having 5 or more victory points at the same time. In this

case the winner is the player with the most victory points, and in the case of a tie, the most

money in hand.

Each building on a players estate counts as one victory point, including the main mansion.

There are two cards, the yacht and the luxury sports car, that each count as a victory point. Ifplaying the expert version the presidents sunglasses count as a victory point too.

Phase 6: Check hand limit

During this phase, all players must discard cards from their hand in excess of 4.

Cards

Ablenkungs ManoeverPlay immediately after dice rolls during a battle

You may choose to reroll one die (yours or your opponnents) of your

choice orall dice must be rerolled

Attentat

Play before a battle

Destroy one militia involved in this battle belonging to an opponent


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Annexion

Play as an attacker during a battle only when the defender has more

buildings than you

If your attack is successful, you may take one building from the defender

and place it on your own estate and look at their hand

Bauernaufstand


Defending militia in this battle are not rolled, but automatically have a

value of 2

Bestechung


Ignore the militias of the president in this battle

Einbrecher

Play immediately after the president has made his promises

Look at the hand a single opponent of your choice, and take one card

from their hand into your hand

Kanonenboot


Add 3 to your attack or defence score

Luxuskarosse

Worth on victory point. Keep in your hand, and reveal when you are

about to win.

Spion

Play immediately after orders have been given to militia, and before they

are revealed

You may look at the orders of other players, and adjust the orders to

your militia before orders are revealed

Studenten Verteilen Flugblaetter

No battles this round


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Parteispende

Play during the spending phase

You may place one building on your estate for free

PR Kampagne

Play during the spending phase

You may purchase one militia for free

Yacht

Worth on victory point. Keep in your hand, and reveal when you are

about to win.

Ueberrachungsangriff

Play as an attacker before a battle

Building of the defender may be ignored this battle

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