WarGear / Boards

Status: Retired
Version: 3.0
Designer: Thingol

Rating: Unrated
Rating Score:
Difficulty: Intermediate

Created Date: 7th Apr 2021
Release Date: 1st Dec 2020
Games Played: 0

#1: Mad Bomber
#2: Babbalouie
#3: Chele Nica

Free For All
No Capitals
Start with a Castle
Teams - Blue vs Red
Teams - Green vs Orange
Teams - Orange vs Blue
Teams - Purple vs Green
Teams - Red vs Purple

Design Information

Territories	836
Continents	138
Advanced Features	View Only Borders One-way Borders Fortify Only Borders Border Modifiers Artillery Borders Attack Only Borders Factories Capitals

Board Settings
Gameplay	Turn Based
Available Players	5 6 7 8 9 10
Card Sets Worth	8,8,8,8,8,8,8
Territory Selection	Automatic
Unit Placement	Automatic
Starting Setup	Scenario based
Capital Cities	On
Teamplay	Disabled
Fog Setting	Medium
Fog Override	Disabled
Open Games	0

Cards
Castle 1
Castle 2
Castle 3
Wild

Seat	Color	Starting Bonus	Win Condition
1	Amidon	8	Default
2	Chele	8	Default
3	Babbalouie	8	Default
4	Mad Bomber	8	Default
5	Johasi	8	Default
6	Thingol	8	Default
7	Andernut	8	Default
8	Berick	8	Default
9	Gimli	8	Default
10	Oldtimer	8	Default
11	Kjeld	8	Default
12	Vampire Red	8	Default
13	Enygma	8	Default
14	Korrun	8	Default
15	smoke	8	Default
16	Ozyman	8	Default
17	Litotes	8	Default
18	Ratsy	8	Default
19	jvarvoutis	8	Default
20	Shredder	8	Default
21	Ironbeard	8	Default

Board Description

Beware the Haunted Castles in the Valley of the Caves of Chaos. Grab a castle, brave the Caves for treasure and eliminate all your rivals.

Castles

Castles are made up of 4 components, the gate, the base courtyard, the walls and the central tower. Each component of the castle generates +1 factory bonus to the base, so a potential of +3 in all if a player owned all 3.

There is a downside to owning a castle. It generates a -5 bonus from the standard income, but this can be offset by obtaining magic items that associate to the particular castle (see magic items below).

Castle Tower - affords a view (radius 3) of the area surrounding the castle.

Unit max 3.

Castle walls - Ability to barrage territories with range 2 from the castle and it's moat. Artillery attacks are d6 vs d4, so being close with a large army to a castle owned by another player can be brutal for your army.

Castle walls can also attack other castle bases (d8 vs d10) and the hill plateau (d10 vs d8). Max unit count on the walls is 10.

Each Castle also has 4 'sally-forth' locations to which they can send sappers to open tunnels for their troops. These can be used in case of siege and also to cleverly deploy forces for other causes.

Castle gates, unit cap 8, defends at +2.

Castle moats - gain a +2 bonus for owning all locations surrounding the moat.

Castle bases can fortify to/from controlled towers and magic kingdoms.Finally, castle bases function as capitals. If you take one and later lose it (before taking another castle), you will be eliminated (30% assimilation).

Magic Items and the Caves of Chaos

Magical items are located within the Caves of Chaos. These items associate to a specific colored castle and if the owner of said castle (specifically the castle base) can obtain these items, the player can dramatically bolster their income as each item is worth +10 in income. Magic item are bordered in the color of their associated castle and associated as follows:

red castle - magic rings

orange castle - magic keys

purple castle - magic amulets

green castle - magic crystal balls

Furthermore, all magic items are worth +1 regardless of castle ownership. (ie - +11 if you own the castle, +1 if you don't)

Special note on the caves - all locations are placement-disabled, so be sure to bring a large group of followers into the caves when exploring. Furthermore, border from the magic center spots to magic items is attack-only, so be sure to fortify with enough force to retain the item.

Marsh Towers

These are towers which generate a line of sight radius of 3 territories.

Towers can also view ownership of adjacent Castle towers (and vice-versa for castle towers) and other nearby Marsh Towers and the nearby Magic Kingdom.

Each tower generates a bonus of +3 and also defends at +1.

Max unit count per tower is 8 units.

All Towers bonus - additional bonus of 8 units for owning all 8 towers.

Summit Hill and Top

Summit Hill top is worth a bonus of +5 and view all the castles and towers as well as a radius 3 from the base of the hill.

The hilltop has a maximum unit count of 10. The plateau cap is 20 units. Placement is disabled on both of them.

The hilltop defends at +2.

The hill plateau defends at +1 from locations below.

Other Pertinent Rules:

Regular income bonus is 1 per each 8 territories, minimum territory bonus is 5.

Fortify is accross owned territores.

Return to attack from fortify is on, 5 fortifies allowed.

Card sets are an even 8 units each set.

Elimination bonus is 20 units

Owning both sides of a bridge also is worth a +1 bonus.

Owning all surrounding territories of the small pond is worth a +3 bonus.

Owning the surrounding territories of a fisherman is worth a +2 bonus.

Owning one of the Magic Kingdom castles (3 of them) is worth a +2 bonus. These castles have a max unit count of 8 units and defend at +1.

Gameplay Settings

Gameplay Type	Turn Based
Return to unit placement from attack	Off
Return to attack after fortify	On
Number of attacks allowed	Unlimited
Number of fortifies allowed	5
Multiple attacks	On
Allow fortification	Connected
Allow abandonment of territories	Off
Abandoned territories revert to neutral	Never
Fog type	Medium
Allow override of fog setting	No
Game history	Show

Team Settings

Teamplay Enabled	No
Team Vision	On
Team Unit Placement	Off
Team Unit Transfer	Off
Team Factory Production	Off

Cards

Cards	On
Card Capture	On
Maximum number of cards allowed	5
Card values	8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8
Must capture non-empty territory to earn card	On
Card deck	A:16 B:16 C:16 W:4

Bonuses, Limits and Dice

Grant 1 unit per x territories owned	8
Minimum bonus units per turn	5
Elimination bonus	20
Capturing of reserves on elimination	On
Maximum reserve units	Unlimited
Maximum units per territory	Unlimited
Auto Assign Factories
Number of sides on Attacker's Dice	6
Number of sides on Defender's Dice	6

Initial Setup

Initial setup	Setup based
Lock seat colors	Off
Lock seat order	On
Lock starting bonus to:	Color
Allow seat selection	None
Capital cities	On
Capital city capture	On
Capital city unit assimilation %	30
Destroy unallocated Capitals	Off
Number of units per Territory	2
Territory selection	Automatic
Unit placement	Automatic
Neutral count	None
Neutral Factories
Use team names defined in Colors	Off
Allow players to choose seats / teams	None

Design Information

Territories	836
Continents	0
Advanced Features	View Only Borders One-way Borders Fortify Only Borders Border Modifiers Artillery Borders Attack Only Borders Factories Capitals

Board Settings
Gameplay	Turn Based
Available Players	6 7 8 9 10
Card Sets Worth	5,6,7,8,10,11,12
Territory Selection	Automatic
Unit Placement	Automatic
Starting Setup	Scenario based
Capital Cities	Off
Teamplay	Disabled
Fog Setting	Medium
Fog Override	Disabled
Open Games	0

Cards
Castle 1
Castle 2
Castle 3
Wild

Seat	Color	Starting Bonus	Win Condition
1	Amidon	8	Default
2	Chele	8	Default
3	Babbalouie	8	Default
4	Mad Bomber	8	Default
5	Johasi	8	Default
6	Thingol	8	Default
7	Andernut	8	Default
8	Berick	8	Default
9	Gimli	8	Default
10	Oldtimer	8	Default
11	Kjeld	8	Default
12	Vampire Red	8	Default
13	Enygma	8	Default
14	Korrun	8	Default
15	smoke	8	Default
16	Ozyman	8	Default
17	Litotes	8	Default
18	Ratsy	8	Default
19	jvarvoutis	8	Default
20	Shredder	8	Default
21	Ironbeard	8	Default