This game will be a normal game with the
Grand Dames,
Cursed!, and
Tales and Legends expansions.
What the?
Small World is a game of territory domination with an emphasis of strategic thinking over random dice rolls. Each player will be able to select from a number of randomly generated races which combine the race's abilities with a special power to generate combinations ranging between ho-hum and outstandingly powerful. However, you have to decide when to abandon your current race in favor of a new one as the original lacks the power to expand or outlives its usefulness.
How do I join?
People can sign up until
11:59am EST on Saturday the 28th. After that, I will randomly choose five victims to play for everyone else's viewing entertainment. The game will begin after Thanksgiving and hopefully will be completed before Christmas. That may be wishful thinking, though.
Once a round ends, I will update the map, set the current event and reveal the upcoming event.
Guidelines for playing:
The initial race/special power stack will be randomized; I'll be keeping the board via a
VASSAL module and will handle drawing new races and powers. If you are selecting a new race on your turn, you can either select from the known choices or wait for my next update to see the new combination.
Players can make their own rolls for final conquests/berserk (
roll 1d6; 4,5,6 = 0) and are responsible for reposting the game summary with their additions/alterations. Post how many points you earned for your turn, but keep the total to yourself. At the end of the game, we'll reveal how many points we've earned. There is no way to stop it, but it is against the spirit (and rules) of the game to keep a running total of other players' points.
To keep the game flowing faster, each retreating unit from conquered regions will go to the region with the least defense that does not contain an immunity token like the dragon, hero, or halfling hole. Water regions are considered immune as well. Multiple retreating units will each check for whatever is lowest at the time they are placed.
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Rules
FAQ
Race Summary:
Spoiler:
1. Amazons (6) Use 4 Additional Amazons during conquest.
2. Dwarves (3) Collect 1 extra coin for each mine, even in decline.
3. Elves (6) Do not suffer losses when conquered.
4. Ghouls (5) Act as if active when in decline.
5. Giants (6) Conquer adjacent to occupied mountains at -1 units.
6. Halflings (6) First conquest may be anywhere. Place a hole-in-the-ground tokens in each of the first two regions conquered. These regions are immune to conquest and/or powers of enemy players.
7. Humans (5) Collect 1 extra coin for each Farmland region.
8. Orcs (5) Collect 1 extra coin for each occupied region conquered this turn.
9. Ratmen (8) Have more tokens than other races!
10. Skeletons (6) Create 1 additional skeleton during redeploy for each 2 occupied regions conquered this turn.
11. Sorcerors (5) On your turn, you may replace an opponent's single active token adjacent to your territory with a sorceror from the box. You may do this once per turn per opponent.
12. Tritons (6) Require one less token to conquer coastal regions (this includes regions adjacent to the lake).
13. Trolls (5) Place a Troll's Lair in each region you occupy. A region with a lair requires one extra token to conquer. These stay even in decline, but are removed if there are no trolls present in the region.
14. Wizards (5) Collect 1 extra coin for each Magic Source.
EXPANSION RACES:
15. Kobolds (11) You may not conquer or occupy a region with fewer than 2 race tokens. When going In Decline, however, keep a single token in each Region, as normal.
16. Goblins (6) You may conquer any In Decline Region at a cost of 1 less Goblin token than normal.
17. Gypsies (6) Place 1 bonus VP (from the stash) in each Region you abandon. You cannot conquer these Regions again this turn, BUT you receive the coins they hold as a bonus at turn's end.
18. Priestesses (4) When going In Decline, take one token from each region you occupy and stack them to form a single "Ivory Tower" in one of the regions you occupy, abandoning all the others. Each turn, score 1 VP for each Priestess token in the Ivory Tower, in lieu of your usual In Decline scoring.
19. White Ladies (2) Once In Decline, White Ladies are immune to your opponents' conquests and powers.
Special Power Summary:
Spoiler:
1. Alchemist (4) Collect 2 exta coins at the end of each turn while active.
2. Berserk (4) You can use the reinforcement die for every conquest and roll before selecting the region.
3. Bivouacking (5) During redeploy, place or move the 5 Encampment tokens in your region(s). Regions with these tokens require one more token to be conquered. You may have multiple encampment tokens in each region.
4. Commando (4) Regions require one less token to conquer.
5. Diplomat (5) At the end of your turn, pick an opponent whose active race you did not attack. That player may not attack your active race before your next turn.
6. Dragon Master (5) Once per turn, you may make a single conquest with just one token. Place or move the Dragon token into that region which makes it immune.
7. Flying (5) You may conquer any region except water even if they are not adjacent.
8. Forest (4) Collect 1 extra coin for each Forest you control.
9. Fortified (3) Once per turn, place one Fortress in a region you control (max 1 per region, 6 total). Each fortress token generates one extra point if the race is active and regions with fortress tokens require one more token to conquer (even in decline).
10. Heroic (5) At the end of your turn place your 2 Hero tokens in two seperate regions you control. These regions cannot be conquered and are immune to enemy powers.
11. Hill (4) Collect 1 bonus coin for each Hill you control.
12. Merchant (2) Collect 1 bonus coin for each region you control.
13. Mounted (5) Conquer Hills and Farmlands at -1 units.
14. Pillaging (5) Collect 1 extra coin for each non-empty region conquered this turn.
15. Seafaring (5) You may conquer and occupy water regions. This lasts even in decline.
16. Spirit (5) This race does not count for your declined race limit. (Keep this power when in decline)
17. Stout (4) You may go into Decline after conquering.
18. Swamp (4) Collect 1 extra coin for each Swamp you control.
19. Underworld (5) You may conquer regions with caverns at -1 units. All regions with Caverns are considered adjacent.
20. Wealthy (4) Collect 7 extra coins at the end of your first turn active.
EXPANSION POWERS:
21. Cursed (0) In order to skip this race during race selection, you must place 3 VP on it instead of the usual 1.
22. Hordes Of (5) You may use your 2 "Hordes Of" tokens exactly as if they were additional active race tokens. They disappear when you go into decline.
23. Ransacking (4) Each time you successfully conquer a Region containing an opponent's active Race, he must immediately pay you 1 VP from his own stash.
24. Were- (4) On even-numbered turns, conquer all regions at -2 tokens.
25. Marauding (5) Once your conquests are over (but BEFORE any final conquest attempt using the Reinforcement Die), take your troops back in hand, leaving at least one token per region, and go through another complete cycle of conquests; then do your final conquest attempt, if any.
26. Historian (5) Collect 1 bonus VP for each Race In Decline at the time you select the Historians. While you're active, collect 1 bonus VP each time another Race goes into decline, including your own race!
27. Peace-Loving (4) Collect 3 bonus VP at the end of each turn during which you have attacked no active Race.
The Map:
The Territories:
NORTHWEST
Spoiler:
1. Drake Sea
2. Dragon Coast
3. Witch Marsh
4. World's End
7. Warlock Falls
8. Westros (1) Lost Tribe
9. Windmillia
12. Rush Valley (1) Lost Tribe
13. Rolling Flats (1) Lost Tribe
17. Norfolk (1) Lost Tribe
18. Ent's Harbor
19. Swamps of Despair (1) Lost Tribe
20. Leyland
NORTHEAST:
Spoiler:
5. Northwoods
6. Ghitu Highlands (1) Lost Tribe
10. Mount Mithril
11. Ghitu Lowlands
14. Iron Spine
15. Secluded Swamp (1) Lost Tribe
16. Doveland
22. Waterwood
23. White Crag
SOUTHEAST
Spoiler:
21. Rainbow Lake
26. Piercing Delta (1) Lost Tribe
27. Rivertown
31. Saint's Pride
32. Falling Leaves (1) Lost Tribe
33. Burning Steppes
34. Gug (1) Lost Tribe
39. Secluded Vale
40. Mid Peaks
41. High Peaks
42. Crackling Steppes (1) Lost Tribe
46. Southpeak
47. Misty Vale
48. Corner Sea
SOUTHWEST
Spoiler:
24. Wool Road (1) Lost Tribe
25. Valorock
28. Raptor's Nest
29. Deathmaw
30. Midland (1) Lost Tribe
35. Platinum Plateau (1) Lost Tribe
36. Quicksilver Forest (1) Lost Tribe
37. Tranquil Expanse
38. Engorged Marsh (1) Lost Tribe
43. Silver Mist
44. Dryad's Retreat (1) Lost Tribe
45. Lowlands
OP was stolen from Valkun's pocket by Gandalf the Crazed, whom [strike]I[/strike] Rorus Raz drugged and stole it for himself.
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It's a ton of fun.
(not signing up just encouraging)
From what I have seen on these boards the bids don't translate well into a PBP format though that may have just been due to inactivity. Either way if any of the events are going to include bids you should explain the process in the thread or something.
SIGN UP!
!SIGN UP!
If anyone is up to it can they post a beginners guide of sorts.
The game is very straightforward; at the start of your first turn, you pick one of the available races/power combinations (the first one is free, but it you want to skip that one and pick one of the others, you must pay one VP for each combo you skip; those VP stay on the skipped combo until it is chosen, thus making it more appealing).
Then, you take the tokens for your combo and conquer as many regions as you can. You start from the edge of the board, and to conquer a region it costs you 2 tokens + the number of tokens already in the region (at the start, this is either 0 or 1 (lost tribe token in the regions with a white square or mountains). Once you capture a region, you can continue to capture more regions until you run out of tokens, but each new region must be adjacent to a region you already hold. When you capture a region from an opponent, you kill one of their figures but set aside the rest; those will be redeployed at the end of your turn.
For your final conquest, you can attempt to capture a region without having enough tokens - in this case, you declare what region you are trying for, then roll a six sided die; on a 1, 2, or 3, the die adds that much to your power in attacking the region, but 4-6 are blank.
Then, you collect one VP for each region you hold, and you can freely redistribute your tokens across your regions (but cannot abandon any regions at this time).
Once everyone has had a turn, the turn marker advances to the next round, and you do it all again.
After the first turn, you get to decide whether to keep expanding with your current race, or to put them into decline. If you're keeping the active race, you pick up as many tokens as you want (usually people will leave one in each region they hold, but you don't have to) then conquer new regions just as before, then score VP.
If you're instead going into decline, you discard all but one token from each region, and flip that last token over to its declined side. Then you score one VP for each region.
You can only have one race in decline at a time, so if you go into decline with Amazons when you already had your Humans in decline, you would discard all of the Humans. Effectively, you can score VP for two races each turn, but only one is active and able to continue expanding.
Now, each race has a racial ability associated with it, and each race also gets a special power -- those all break the rules in some way, granting extra VP for holding certain regions, or letting you conquer regions more cheaply, etc. Most of those abilities and powers are lost once the race is in decline, but a few remain active -- Spirit lets you keep an extra race in decline, Ghouls can continue to expand even after they go into decline, etc.
The game is really a test of your ability to assess the relative strength of each player and of each available combo; because it is a multiplayer wargame, you need to keep your head down and not look like the leader while still collecting enough VP each round to compete for victory.
In addition to the normal rules, we'll be using Tales and Legends, which adds a special event each round. The events will be revealed the round before they go into effect, so we can talk about how they work as they come up.
Here are the starting combos for this game:
Hill Giants (10 tokens) (+1 VP for hills; conquer from a mountain for -1 token)
Flying Gypsies (11) (all regions are considered adjacent; +1 VP for each region they abandon at the start of a turn, but they cannot recapture those regions)
Fortified Wizards (8) (place a fort each turn, granting +1 defense and +1 VP for that region; +1 VP for magic regions)
Were-Humans (9) (-2 tokens to conquer on even numbered turns; +1 VP for farmlands)
Pillaging Trolls (10) (+1 VP for each occupied region conquered; place a lair in each region for +1 defense)
Swamp Tritons (10) (+1 VP for swamps; -1 to conquer regions adjacent to water)
Each of those powers and races has a number in the corner - add those together to see how many tokens you get. There also are some pictures on them; -# in a box means it costs # fewer tokens to conquer regions when the conditions are met (always a minimum of 1 token needed). +1 in a shield is increased defense, an extra token placed to make it harder for others to conquer a region. +1 in an octagon grants bonus VP when the criteria is met.
Never played, but !signup.
If ya want me.
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But mine is blackjack.
Blackjack.
Both of the die rollers don't seem to be working, I registered an account on orocos but when I try to sign in it just takes me back to the sign in page. The other one is not working because I need to check a confirmation e-mail and my e-mail is not working.
My e-mail is working now, still don't know what was wrong with the other one.
At least I aint last.
EDIT- Link entered wrong
Which gives us:
SlickSHughes
Extermatott
Void Slayer
Hippie
schuss
And I need to go snap a picture of the opening board with tokens and pull a card for next round.
Are you guys going to be active enough for an auction, or should I skip over those cards? For the first round, at least, if I draw an auction card I'll redraw.
The Territories:
NORTHWEST
2. Dragon Coast
3. Witch Marsh
4. World's End
7. Warlock Falls
8. Westros (1) Lost Tribe
9. Windmillia
12. Rush Valley (1) Lost Tribe
13. Rolling Flats (1) Lost Tribe
17. Norfolk (1) Lost Tribe
18. Ent's Harbor
19. Swamps of Despair (1) Lost Tribe
20. Leyland
NORTHEAST:
6. Ghitu Highlands (1) Lost Tribe
10. Mount Mithril
11. Ghitu Lowlands
14. Iron Spine
15. Secluded Swamp (1) Lost Tribe
16. Doveland
22. Waterwood
23. White Crag
SOUTHEAST
26. Piercing Delta (1) Lost Tribe
27. Rivertown
31. Saint's Pride
32. Falling Leaves (1) Lost Tribe
33. Burning Steppes
34. Gug (1) Lost Tribe
39. Secluded Vale
40. Mid Peaks
41. High Peaks
42. Crackling Steppes (1) Lost Tribe
46. Southpeak
47. Misty Vale
48. Corner Sea
SOUTHWEST
25. Valorock
28. Raptor's Nest
29. Deathmaw
30. Midland (1) Lost Tribe
35. Platinum Plateau (1) Lost Tribe
36. Quicksilver Forest (1) Lost Tribe
37. Tranquil Expanse
38. Engorged Marsh (1) Lost Tribe
43. Silver Mist
44. Dryad's Retreat (1) Lost Tribe
45. Lowlands
Combinations in use and available:
Flying Gypsies (11) (all regions are considered adjacent; +1 VP for each region they abandon at the start of a turn, but they cannot recapture those regions)
Fortified Wizards (8) (place a fort each turn, granting +1 defense and +1 VP for that region; +1 VP for magic regions)
Were-Humans (9) (-2 tokens to conquer on even numbered turns; +1 VP for farmlands)
Pillaging Trolls (10) (+1 VP for each occupied region conquered; place a lair in each region for +1 defense)
Swamp Tritons (10) (+1 VP for swamps; -1 to conquer regions adjacent to water)
Current event:
none
Upcoming event:
Going Down
During their turn, each player may use the in decline token(s) of their regions to attempt the conquest of 1 adjacent region. The player gets to roll the reinforcement die for this conquest attempt. If they suceed, the player moves these in decline token(s) into the newly conquered region, abandoning the other. If the conquest fails, nothing happens.
Turn Order:
SlickSHughes (decay)
Extermatott (decay)
Void Slayer (decay)
Hippie (decay)
schuss (decay)
In summaries, active races will be bolded, and decline will be regular.
SlickSHughes is active to select a race, enter the map, and conquer.
The Territories:
NORTHWEST
2. Dragon Coast
3. Witch Marsh
4. World's End
7. Warlock Falls
8. Westros (1) Lost Tribe
9. Windmillia
12. Rush Valley (1) Lost Tribe
13. Rolling Flats (1) Lost Tribe
17. Norfolk (1) Lost Tribe
18. Ent's Harbor
19. Swamps of Despair (1) Lost Tribe
20. Leyland
NORTHEAST:
6. Ghitu Highlands (1) Lost Tribe
10. Mount Mithril
11. Ghitu Lowlands
14. Iron Spine
15. Secluded Swamp (1) Lost Tribe
16. Doveland
22. Waterwood
23. White Crag
SOUTHEAST
26. Piercing Delta (1) Lost Tribe
27. Rivertown
31. Saint's Pride 1 Hill Giants
32. Falling Leaves (1) Lost Tribe
33. Burning Steppes 2 Hill Giants
34. Gug (1) Lost Tribe
39. Secluded Vale 1 Hill Giants
40. Mid Peaks 2 Hill Giants
41. High Peaks 1 Hill Giants
42. Crackling Steppes 3 Hill Giants
46. Southpeak
47. Misty Vale
48. Corner Sea
SOUTHWEST
25. Valorock
28. Raptor's Nest
29. Deathmaw
30. Midland (1) Lost Tribe
35. Platinum Plateau (1) Lost Tribe
36. Quicksilver Forest (1) Lost Tribe
37. Tranquil Expanse
38. Engorged Marsh (1) Lost Tribe
43. Silver Mist
44. Dryad's Retreat (1) Lost Tribe
45. Lowlands
Combinations in use and available:
Fortified Wizards (8) (place a fort each turn, granting +1 defense and +1 VP for that region; +1 VP for magic regions)
Were-Humans (9) (-2 tokens to conquer on even numbered turns; +1 VP for farmlands)
Pillaging Trolls (10) (+1 VP for each occupied region conquered; place a lair in each region for +1 defense)
Swamp Tritons (10) (+1 VP for swamps; -1 to conquer regions adjacent to water)
Current event:
none
Upcoming event:
Going Down
During their turn, each player may use the in decline token(s) of their regions to attempt the conquest of 1 adjacent region. The player gets to roll the reinforcement die for this conquest attempt. If they suceed, the player moves these in decline token(s) into the newly conquered region, abandoning the other. If the conquest fails, nothing happens.
Turn Order:
SlickSHughes (decay)
Extermatott (decay)
Void Slayer (decay)
Hippie (decay)
schuss (decay)
SlickSHughes
Extermatott is active:
Flying Gypsies (11) (all regions are considered adjacent; +1 VP for each region they abandon at the start of a turn, but they cannot recapture those regions)
Fortified Wizards (8) (place a fort each turn, granting +1 defense and +1 VP for that region; +1 VP for magic regions)
Were-Humans (9) (-2 tokens to conquer on even numbered turns; +1 VP for farmlands)
Pillaging Trolls (10) (+1 VP for each occupied region conquered; place a lair in each region for +1 defense)
Swamp Tritons (10) (+1 VP for swamps; -1 to conquer regions adjacent to water)
Mounted Orcs (10) (-1 to conquer hills or farmlands, +1 VP for each occupied region captured)
Step 2: enter the map from an edge - place 2 of your tokens + the number of tokens already present in a region. You can enter from the edge of the board or across water, but cannot actually conquer any water regions
Step 3: Leaving those tokens in place, continue to conquer new regions adjacent to the first
Step 4: If desired, you can attempt a final conquest even if you don't have enough tokens for the last region - if so, choose a region then roll 1d6; if you get a 1, 2, or 3, you add that many to the number of tokens you have, and see if it is enough to conquer the region
Step 5: Redeploy - leaving at least one token in each region, you can move excess tokens around for defense
Step 6: Score - count the number of regions held + any bonus VP
Take SlickS' turn:
Step 1: Take Hill Giants as Active Race. (receive 10 tokens)
Step 2: Enter at 40 (3), (number in parentheses is how many he used to take the region)
Step 3: take 41(2), 42(2), 33(1), 31(1), 39(1). (additional conquests are adjacent to at least one of his regions, and he spends -1 tokens to capture regions that are adjacent to a mountain he holds)
Step 4: (no final conquest, since he used up his tokens exactly)
Step 5: Reallocate as above (moved tokens from 40 and 41 to 33 and 42, and he updated the list of territories, removing the killed Lost Tribe and placing his Hill Giants).
Step 6: Earn 6 (regions held) + 2 (hills) = 8.
He was taking those unoccupied regions for just one because his giants are very adept when attacking from a mountain (-1 to regions attacked adjacent to a mountain controlled by the giants).
I think.
So your flying gypsies (seriously, those are great) will just ignore them all.
DID I DO IT RIGHT!?
The Territories:
NORTHWEST
2. Dragon Coast
3. Witch Marsh (3 Fortified Wizards)
4. World's End (2 Fortified Wizards)
7. Warlock Falls
8. Westros (1) Lost Tribe
9. Windmillia
12. Rush Valley (1) Lost Tribe
13. Rolling Flats (1) Lost Tribe
17. Norfolk (1) Lost Tribe
18. Ent's Harbor
19. Swamps of Despair (1) Lost Tribe
20. Leyland
NORTH EAST
6. Ghitu Highlands (1) Lost Tribe
10. Mount Mithril
11. Ghitu Lowlands
14. Iron Spine
15. Secluded Swamp (1) Lost Tribe
16. Doveland
22. Waterwood
23. White Crag
SOUTHEAST
26. Piercing Delta (1) Lost Tribe
27. Rivertown
31. Saint's Pride 1 Hill Giants
32. Falling Leaves (1) Lost Tribe
33. Burning Steppes 2 Hill Giants
34. Gug (1) Lost Tribe
39. Secluded Vale 1 Hill Giants
40. Mid Peaks 2 Hill Giants
41. High Peaks 1 Hill Giants
42. Crackling Steppes 3 Hill Giants
46. Southpeak
47. Misty Vale
48. Corner Sea
SOUTHWEST
25. Valorock
28. Raptor's Nest
29. Deathmaw
30. Midland (1) Lost Tribe
35. Platinum Plateau (1) Lost Tribe
36. Quicksilver Forest (1) Lost Tribe
37. Tranquil Expanse
38. Engorged Marsh (1) Lost Tribe
43. Silver Mist
44. Dryad's Retreat (1) Lost Tribe
45. Lowlands
I'll be posting in about 6-7 hours for my turn.
because I may need to change things like that.
So the Flying Gypsies are supposedly great?
Damn I wish I had read this before I did my move.
Also, I thought I had updated the board earlier; not sure what happened to my post.
Your new race will be Cursed Dwarfs! Which just might be the least powerful combination ever.
The Territories:
NORTHWEST
2. Dragon Coast
3. Witch Marsh (3 Fortified Wizards)
4. World's End (2 Fortified Wizards)
7. Warlock Falls
8. Westros (1) Lost Tribe
9. Windmillia
12. Rush Valley (1) Lost Tribe
13. Rolling Flats (1) Lost Tribe
17. Norfolk (1) Lost Tribe
18. Ent's Harbor
19. Swamps of Despair (1) Lost Tribe
20. Leyland
NORTH EAST
6. Ghitu Highlands (1) Lost Tribe
10. Mount Mithril
11. Ghitu Lowlands
14. Iron Spine
15. Secluded Swamp (1) Lost Tribe
16. Doveland
22. Waterwood
23. White Crag
SOUTHEAST
26. Piercing Delta (1) Lost Tribe
27. Rivertown
31. Saint's Pride 1 Hill Giants
32. Falling Leaves (1) Lost Tribe
33. Burning Steppes 2 Hill Giants
34. Gug (1) Lost Tribe
39. Secluded Vale 1 Hill Giants
40. Mid Peaks 2 Hill Giants
41. High Peaks 1 Hill Giants
42. Crackling Steppes 3 Hill Giants
46. Southpeak
47. Misty Vale
48. Corner Sea
SOUTHWEST
25. Valorock
28. Raptor's Nest
29. Deathmaw
30. Midland (1) Lost Tribe
35. Platinum Plateau (1) Lost Tribe
36. Quicksilver Forest (1) Lost Tribe
37. Tranquil Expanse
38. Engorged Marsh (1) Lost Tribe
43. Silver Mist
44. Dryad's Retreat (1) Lost Tribe
45. Lowlands
Void Slayer is active
Flying Gypsies (11) (all regions are considered adjacent; +1 VP for each region they abandon at the start of a turn, but they cannot recapture those regions) (+1 VP)
Were-Humans (9) (-2 tokens to conquer on even numbered turns; +1 VP for farmlands)
Pillaging Trolls (10) (+1 VP for each occupied region conquered; place a lair in each region for +1 defense)
Swamp Tritons (10) (+1 VP for swamps; -1 to conquer regions adjacent to water)
Mounted Orcs (10) (-1 to conquer hills or farmlands, +1 VP for each occupied region captured)
Cursed Dwarfs (3) (costs 3 VP to skip; +1 VP for each mine, even in decline)