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Rules
Risk: Albuquerque Edition Instruction Booklet
Game pieces:
5 containers of differently colored troop pieces
Three attack dice (red)
Two defense dice (white)
Instruction booklet
Game board
Sauerkraut cards
How to Play:
This thrilling game can support from 2 to 5 players (of 8 years and up). Each player starts by choosing a color to play as and taking the respective container of game pieces. Each different model of game piece is worth a different amount of troops. The numbers go as follows:
Donuts: 1 troop
Homaphrodite: 5 troops
Oncoming Train: 10 troops
Starving, Crazed Weasel: 25 troops
Albanian Women: 50 troops
The objective of this game is to take over all of Albuquerque by having at least one troop on each Block. There are four differently colored sections of the Albuquerque board. These are called Districts. Each District acts as a Continent would, if you have played the other versions of Risk. If not, they will be explained shortly. Each district is divided up into different shades of the color. These are called Blocks. There are anywhere from 26 - 56 blocks in each District, making the different Districts more or less difficult to capture. Blocks are the equivelent of Countries in other versions of Risk.
At the beginning of the game, each player gets a certain number of troops to begin with. In a two player game, each player gets 156 troops. In a three player game, each player gets 104 troops. In a four player game, each player gets 78 troops, and in a five player game, each player gets 65 troops.
The game begins by each player taking turns placing one troop at a time on an unoccupied Block. Once every block is full, the players can now place as many troops as they want on any of their controlled Blocks.
Once all of the troop setting is done, the war begins. At the beginning of each turn, everyone gets a number of troops, with which, they can place anywhere they like. Each player gets a total of three free troops, along with Sauerkraut Card bonuses, and bonuses for capturing entire districts. Here are how the bonuses work.
There is a pile of cards included with the game called Sauerkraut cards. Each card has the picture of either Jerry's Bait Shop, mint-flavored dental floss, or Torsoboy. A player collects one after a turn if he or she has captured at least one Block during that turn. Once a player has either three of the same cards or all three different cards, they may then turn them in and get a troop bonus on their next turn. The bonuses start at 5 extra troops with the first turn in, 10 with the second, 15 with the third, and so on.
There are also District Bonuses that one can obtain at the beginning of every turn if that player has at least one troop in every Block in a District. The player is awarded 9 troops for controlling the Hotel District, 6 troops for controlling the Airport District, 6 troops for controlling the Sizzler District, and 3 troops for controlling the Donut District.
It is now the turn of the youngest player's (the player whose date of birth is farthest away from that of Jesus') turn to advance his troops. The player may choose to attack another adjacent Block with the troops he or she has in the Block the player is attacking from. The player may choose to send as many or as few troops as they desire, except they must leave at least one troop out of combat.
Battling
To battle, the attacking player takes up all three red dice (if he or she is attacking with at least three troops, if attacking with two, the player may only use two dice. If they're only attacking with one, the player may only use one die. If they are using zero troops, or any fraction of a number less than one but above zero, the player should be slapped for such foolish behavior. War is not a game.)
The attacking player rolls the dice or die they are holding as the defending player rolls the white attack die (again, both if he or she is defending with at least two troops, and only one if he or she is defending with only one troop). The results of the dice rolls are then compared. If the attacking player scored the highest roll higher than the defending player's highest roll, one defending unit is removed from the battle and vice versa. If the attacker's second highest roll is higher than the defender's second roll, a defending troop is removed from the battlefield and, again, this works both ways. If one or more of the dice rolls land on the same number, the defending player automaticly wins that roll, or those rolls. Units removed from the battle are dead, and cannot fight anymore, but can be used again when the player scores more units.
Once the player is done attacking, he or she may attack again as many times as he or she likes to, or he or she may move any of his or her troops from one of his or her own spots to another. The only requirements are that you leave at least one unit behind, and that you have a straight line of adjacent spaces, in which you move. Once a player moves his or her units, his or her turn is over, they may not attack or move any more.
It is now the next player's turn.
Continue this process until one player has at least one unit in every Block on the board. This player has conquered Albuquerque and is the winner of the game. They deserve candy. Go celebrate, for you are now the winners of our brilliant new board game.
Map:
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