Runewars Boardgame Gameplay

docD · Post by **docD** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:00 pm

Spoiler:

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:10 pm

docD's Quest Phase
Red Scorpion uses her special ability to damager herself to move 4 squares North to JC, looks at the rune in that space. She then completes the quest:

Secrets and Lies
It is impossible for us to separate the truth from the rumors about our enemy. Our only hope is to get someone on the inside...
Travel to an enemy's home realm to receive a Reward card and train 1 attribute.

Red Scorpion gets +1 strength and a reward card.

(Reward cards are usually various magical items. They range from boosting combat ability, defense, stuff that affects neutrals, and more. They remain face-down until the hero uses them, then become public knowledge.)

Next Summer Quest Phase: Scoop/Uthuk
3) Scoop: 1-Strategize (1 Influence, 1 starting)
4) Zurai: 2-Mobilize (1 Influence, 4 starting)
5) Lagom: 2-Mobilize (1 Influence, 3 starting)

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:44 am

We don't get spoilered to know what Doc got?

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:42 am

You're spoiled enough as it is!

Lagom Lite · Post by **Lagom Lite** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:52 am

Hey Jow, you've got a commie in your back yard!

Jow · Post by **Jow** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:14 am

I noticed. she's got bigger boobs than Dolph, though.

docD · Post by **docD** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:50 am

Jow wrote:I noticed. she's got bigger boobs than Dolph, though.

Nothing personal Jow, you were the only one Red could reach this turn. I'm still looking forward to killing, I mean meeting your envoys.

Jow · Post by **Jow** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 12:18 pm

Doc:

Spoiler:

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:07 pm

Summer Quest Phase: Scoop/Uthuk

Mad Carthos trains his Agility to +2.

Processing Zurai's turn.

(By the way, I reread the rules and there's some stuff I missed. Each hero has a max of +2 to an attribute. Also, after you get a Reward from a quest, you immediately draw a new quest. Also, I'm in the middle of redoing some of the back end of how I handle these games, I'm typing up every component, and using more text files to keep track of things instead of previously using tons of plastic bags, so I'm going to be a bit slow to process turns for the next few days, especially now that I'm back taking some night classes and working, but afterwards turn processing will go much faster.)

Jow · Post by **Jow** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:14 pm

No worries, man. Thanks for taking the time to run this for us.

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:24 pm

Jow wrote:No worries, man. Thanks for taking the time to run this for us.

+1

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:34 pm

Summer Quest Phase: Zurai/Latari

Astarra moves to 4B and attempts the Quest:
Stealthy Scout
There are rumors of an army massing in the Velvet Plains. Carefully survey the area and return without being caught.
Location: 4B
Test Agility
Success: Receive Reward.
Neutral: Clumsiness forces the hero to engage the enemy. Take 1 damage. If not defeated, receive Reward.
Failure: The hero walks into a trap. Take 2 damage. If not defeated receive Reward.

Fate Results: Neutral and Success!

Astarra receives a Reward and Zurai draws a new quest.

Summer Quest Phase: Lagom/Daqan

Sir Valadir moves to 6B.

Pending:
All players must PM me their Order card for this Season.
(Send it again if you already did since it's probably buried under 2 games worth of PMs by now.)

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:58 pm

Turtle wrote:Astarra receives a Reward and Zurai draws a new quest.

Any chance I can find out what these are? Think of the poor Remus, not knowing what EITHER player got as their reward cards!

Remus West · Post by **Remus West** » Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:27 pm

Zurai wrote:
Turtle wrote:Astarra receives a Reward and Zurai draws a new quest.
Any chance I can find out what these are? Think of the poor Remus, not knowing what EITHER player got as their reward cards!

Yeah! What he said.

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:27 pm

Year 1 Summer, Turn Order
1) Jow: 1-Mobilize (2/4 Influence)
3) Scoop: 2-Mobilize (1/1 Influence)
3) Zurai: 4-Harvest (4/4 Influence)
4) Lagom: 5-Recruit (1/3 Influence)
5) docD: 7-Acquire Power (2/2 Influence)

Turn 1: Jow
Activates 5A and moves a sorceress, archer, and warrior there. Jow must now decide whether to try Diplomacy or go Straight to battle.

Supremacy Bonus: Activates 5D and moves a single bowman there.

Jow · Post by **Jow** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:35 pm

Okay, first, I am playing... da da daaaaaa... Favorable Alliance.

The envoy arrives at the dark gates and is escorted into the undead fortress. Trembling, he is led down dark, crumbling corridors, sidestepping piles of bones and other detritus all the way in. He finally arrives in the throne room and tremulously lays the package at DocD's putrescent feet.

"This should make up for the slight on King Jow's behalf, your... highness."

First, this card allows me to gift one player with 1-4 influence tokens. I'm choosing to give DocD four influence.

In return, Doc, you have to choose to give me 1-4 influence in return. Choose wisely.

Second, due to the number of successes already drawn on diplomacy and other rolls, I'm going right to battle.

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:49 pm

Jow chooses to battle in 5A.

Battle in 5A: Archer, Sorceress, Warrior vs. 2 Razorwings
Initiative 1 Fate Draws:
Archer uses Crack Shot to deal 1 damage to a Razorwing! A Razorwing is destroyed!
vs.
A Razorwing misses!
A Razorwing uses its special attack, Stun! Jow must rout one of his units with initiative 2 or higher.

docD/Waiqar must choose how much influence to give back to Jow/Jowatal.

Jow · Post by **Jow** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:44 pm

Rout the sorceress, please.

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:28 am

Lurkers:

Spoiler:

Turtle, I like the continued map improvements. I was thinking about suggesting coloring the map tiles their owners' color, myself. One note: my Hero is at 4B, not LB, unless something's happened that I didn't notice. Not that I mind her being where she is, but my opponents might object to me getting a free two tiles movement for her...

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:06 am

Jow chooses to route a Sorcercess.

Battle in 5A continued...
Initiative 2 skipped.

Initiative 3 Fate Draws:
Warrior deals 2 routs! The last Razorwing is routed.

Final Battle Strength:
Archer 1
Warrior 1
Sorceress (routed) 0
vs.
Razorwing (routed) 0
Total: Jow 2 vs. Neutrals 0

Jow wins the fight!
docD (the player to Jow's left) must choose where the remaining Razorwing retreats.

docD/Waiqar gains 4 influence from Jow's Favorable Alliance tactics card and must choose how much influence (1-4) to give back to Jow/Jowatal.

(Un-Allied Neutrals can only retreat into adjacent uncontrolled areas. Uncontrolled Areas means any location not owned by a player. Home realms are always Owned by their player, so un-allied neutral units can never retreat into home realms.)

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:58 am

(While we wait for those decisions, here's some more turns. Also, don't feel pressured to pre-set your turns, especially as the game progresses a lot of small decisions will end up meaning a lot.)

Turn 2: Uthuk Y'llan (Scoop) 2-Mobilize
Scoop first plays:
Spread Dissent - Play during your turn. Choose 1 area containing neutral units. All neutral units must retreat from the area (even if allied to a player, activated, or routed). If the units cannot legally retreat they are destroyed.

On area 2A2, forcing the Giants to retreat. Zurai must choose to which hex the Giants retreat. He then moves 1 Berserker from 3B into the 2A2.

Scoop then plays:
Reinforcements - Play during your turn. Recruit 1 of the following at 1 of your strongholds: 1 Hexagon unit, 2 Rectangle units, 2 Circle units, or 3 Triangle units.

Which he uses to recruit a Chaos Lord at UA.

Supremacy Bonus: Scoop then activates 3A and moves the Chaos Lord (UA), Warlock, and Fleshripper (3B) into 3A to battle the Sorcerers.

Battle in 3A! Flesh Ripper, Warlock, and Chaos Lord vs. 2 Sorcerers.
Initiative 1 Fate Draws:
Flesh Ripper causes 1 rout! A sorcerer is wets his pants!
A Sorcerer uses his special ability, Undying! Each Sorcerer has 2 health now.
A Sorcerer also uses Undying, but it has no effect.
Initiative 2 skipped
Initiative 3 Fate draws:
Warlock deals 1 damage. Standing Sorcerer is reduced to 1 health!
Initiative 4 skipped
Initiative 5 Fate draws:
Chaos Lord "ROARS!" causing 2 routs. The last Sorcerer is routed.

Final battle Strength: Scoop 3 vs Neutrals 0
Scoop wins the battle!
Zurai must decide where the Sorcerers retreat.

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:08 am

Turn 3: Latari Elves (Zurai) Order 4-Harvest
Zurai's counts all resources in the areas he controls and sets his tracks accordingly. His resources are now at: Food 3, Wood 3, and Ore 4.

Supremacy Bonus: Zurai then reduces his wood track by 1 to build a Diplomat development at his stronghold in LB.

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:22 am

Turn 4: Daqan Lords (Lagom) 5-Recruit
Lagom plays the tactic card:
Lost City - Play during your turn. Choose an uncontrolled area containing 1 of your heroes. All neutral units retreat from the area (even if routed). Then place 1 of your stronghold tokens (damaged) in the area.

On space 6B to force the Hellhound to retreat, then places one of his Strongholds in that area damaged. Jow must choose where the Hellhound retreats.

Then using his Recruit order, he recruits from his Ore and Wood tracks, placing a Knight and 2 Bowmen in 6B.

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:40 am

Turn 5: Waiqar the Undying (docD) 7-Acquire Power
docD receives 2 influence tokens from his resource tracks. He does not use it's supremacy bonus.

Year 1, Fall

Waiqar the Undying (docD)

Spoiler:

Latari Elves (Zurai)

Spoiler:

Jowatal Elves (Jow)

Spoiler:

Uthuk Y'llan (Scoop)

Spoiler:

Daqan Lords (Lagom)

Spoiler:

Fall Season Card: Bountiful Harvest
Each player resets his resource dials based upon the areas he controls. Each player then increases his Food resource dial by 1.
Fall Secondary Ability: Reshuffle the fate deck. Then, each player chooses to receive either 2 Influence tokens or 1 Tactics card.

Pending:
docD/Waiqar must choose how much influence to give back to Jow/Jowatal.
docD (the player to Jow's left) must choose where the remaining Razorwing retreats.
Zurai must decide where the Sorcerers retreat.
Jow must choose where the Hellhound retreats.

Lagom Lite · Post by **Lagom Lite** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:10 am

/An emissary for Lord Zurai of the Latari approaches.

Lord Zurai,

I come to you humbly and with the hope of alliance. I have word of betrayal. The Jowite Elves are traitors. They have pledged allegiance with the dread Waiqan and threaten to destroy all that is good.

To the southeast, demons are crawling up from unnamed abysses. I can help you repel these monsters. I will fortify a number of strongholds in the centre of the map, though I suspect I will have my hands full repelling Jowite invaders.

Your people need food. There are fertile lands at 1A and 1B, they're all yours. With 4B your people will have as much food as they can eat. If you can handle the giant, you can have the ore in 6D as well.

Be warned, however. Latari aggression into Daiqan territory will be dealt with harshly and swiftly. We want the city at 6C, and we will take it. Interference in this matter will not be tolerated.

Expand in peace! Expand eastward!

Yours,

General Lagom of the Daiqan.

Lagom Lite · Post by **Lagom Lite** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:24 am

For the audience:

Spoiler:

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:22 pm

docD moves the retreating Razorwing from 5A to 8A2. He also returns 3 influence back to Jow from the Favorable Alliance.

docD · Post by **docD** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:25 pm

We accept your tribute to us, Jow king of the Jowites. As you have came to us first we shall spare you and your people from out wrath. As a token of our good will you may return with three quarters of the tribute you brought. The last will be kept as compensation for our losses that your demands disarment cuased us.

We give 3 influence back to Jow.

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:24 pm

Graphics updated again, this time just the dials. Let me know if there are any discrepancies.

Jow · Post by **Jow** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 2:41 pm

Hellhound retreats to 1A.

Quick question: I assumed factions maintained control over areas if they left them. with 5B no longer having my background color, I assume that's not the case?

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:03 pm

Retreat the Giants from 2A2 to 2B1.
Retreat the Sorcerers from 3A to 2B2.

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:05 pm

Jow wrote:Hellhound retreats to 1A.

Quick question: I assumed factions maintained control over areas if they left them. with 5B no longer having my background color, I assume that's not the case?

You're right, that's not the case

You have to maintain a presence in every area you want to maintain control of -- either with a unit of your race or with a stronghold.

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:07 pm

Turtle wrote:Turn 3: Latari Elves (Zurai) Order 4-Harvest
Zurai's counts all resources in the areas he controls and sets his tracks accordingly. His resources are now at: Food 3, Wood 3, and Ore 4.

....

Each player resets his resource dials based upon the areas he controls. Each player then increases his Food resource dial by 1.

Oh well, at least I get the wood back from buying my Diplomat. And the extra food doesn't hurt.

Jow · Post by **Jow** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:09 pm

*nod* That hoses me a bit, but oh well. Learning game.

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:19 pm

Lord Lagom of the Daqar:

He are pleased to hear that the corruption spreading through the lands has not yet seeped into the Lords of the North. For now, we are willing to accept your offer of alliance, though meddling in our affairs will be met with swift reprisal. We do find it amusing that you cede the lands closest to our own realm to us. Perhaps this is what you Humans term "a joke"?

-- Lord Zurai of the Latari

Lagom Lite · Post by **Lagom Lite** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 4:30 pm

Zurai wrote:Lord Lagom of the Daqar:

He are pleased to hear that the corruption spreading through the lands has not yet seeped into the Lords of the North. For now, we are willing to accept your offer of alliance, though meddling in our affairs will be met with swift reprisal. We do find it amusing that you cede the lands closest to our own realm to us. Perhaps this is what you Humans term "a joke"?

-- Lord Zurai of the Latari

Oh, uh... We meant to say; "live in peace" and all that. We never considered invading those bits of land, of course, it never entered our minds, not even once. Carry on. Peacefully. Peace. Peeace.

Zurai · Post by **Zurai** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 5:26 pm

For lurkers:

Spoiler:

Well, tentative alliance with Lagom set. I'm sure it won't last all game, and I'm not going to trust him farther than I have to, but aside from him taking 6B I'm fine with his terms. As long as I can get both 1B and 2C1, though, it won't be a big deal. I need both of them in order to get access to enough Wood to fulfill my Objective, and I need to put a Stronghold on one and increase the resources as well. Lagom's move complicated things for me immensely.

So my current long-term plan is to take 2C1. Obviously Scoop of Chaos is in that vicinity, so it's the more pressing of the two Wood tiles available to me. I can't really do anything about it this year, but I should hopefully be able to take it first thing in Spring. What I'm doing is Recruiting now, grabbing 2 Warriors, 1 Sorceress, and 1 Pegasus Rider (the extra Swordsmen is due to the extra Food from the season card this turn). In Winter I'll do something else -- either Rally Support or Acquire Power, but I'm undecided as to which.

Then in Spring I pull a repeat of what I did this year: Mobilize, activate 4B, send in the Sorceress and two Warriors from LB (the ones I'm recruiting this Season) and try to ally with the Sorcerers. Then I'll activate 2C1 and send my Pegasus Rider (who flies and is fast, either of which would let him make the trip) from LB and my Sorceress and Dragon from 4A. They should handily defeat the lone Hellhound and leave me in firm control of that hex.

Then sometime later in the year I Fortify 2C1, which should solidify my control there for quite a while (undamaged Strongholds count as 5 units when determining who wins a fight, so having an undamaged Stronghold means someone has to attack with at least 6 units if they want to win, barring tactics cards to damage the Stronghold), as well as blocking access to 4B for non-fliers (and Chaos has no fliers). At the next Harvest after that (which will have to be in Year 3 at the earliest, because adding Developments is a Supremacy bonus of the Harvest Order, but Fortify is a higher numbered Order card), I'll add another Wood resource there.

That's the plan, anyway.

Turtle · Post by **Turtle** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:41 am

Jow wrote:*nod* That hoses me a bit, but oh well. Learning game.

Thankfully, due to bountiful harvest, you won't get hit with losing units come this winter.

However, I still need your decision on the Fall season card.

Also, the Hellhound from 6B can't retreat to 1A, since it needs to retreat to an adjacent uncontrolled space.

Jow · Post by **Jow** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:15 am

Sorry, I meant 6a - there's not even a 1A space on the board.

I'll take a tactics card for the fall event.

docD · Post by **docD** » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:08 pm

I'll take two influence