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EXPANSION PACKS

Robert E. Howard

The Musketeers

Arthurian LegengsRobin Hood

Siege Engines: Middle Ages

Reinforcements: City Troops

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Robert E. HowardThese tiles replace the following tiles in the

game: Conan = Champion; Kull = Wizard;

Agnes = Ranger; Solomon Kane = Priest.

There are two ways to incorporate these tiles

into the rules (both players should agree which

rule theyll use before the start of play).

1. Players randomly determine who will

choose first. The first player selects one of thefour tiles from this expansion pack. The second

player selects the next tile, then the first player

selects the next tile and finally the second

player selects the last tile. Both players remove

the tiles corresponding to the

tiles theyve chosen (as noted above), place thenew tiles in their bags and the game proceeds

as normal.

2. For a more challenging game, players

lay the four tiles from this expansion pack

on the side of the board, then start a stan-

dard game.Whenever a player pulls one of the

four tiles noted above, they can choose at that

moment to replace the drawn tile with theappropriate tile from this expansion pack. If the

player decides not to replace the tile, he cannot

replace the tile at any future time. Yes, this

means a single player could have all four tiles

on their side.

The Musketeers

The four musketeer tiles (DAragnon, Athos,

Porthos and Aramis) replace the light stained

Duke, Duchess, Assassin and Wizard Tiles.

Richlieu, de Winter and Rochforte replace

the dark stained Duke, Duchess and Wizard

Tiles.

The musketeer player starts with any three of

the musketeers on the board; the player choos-

es which three, but they must still be placed

using the standard set-up rules (i.e. one in

either center square at the edge of the board,

the other two fully adjacent).

The other player keeps the starting set-up of

two Footman, but the Richlieu tile takes the

place of the Duke.

To win the musketeer player must capture

Richlieu. For the Richlieu player, as soon as all

musketeers currently on the board are cap-

tured, he wins (this could be three if the fourth

tile has not yet been drawn from the bag, or

four if it has been drawn and placed).

Place A New Troop Tile: Whenever the

musketeer player places a new tile, it is always

placed in one of the two starting squares where

a Duke is normally placed. If both tiles are

occupied by friendly tiles, then a new Troop

Tile cannot be drawn and placed; if either

square is occupied by an enemy tile, then a

new Troop Tile can be placed in that square,

capturing said tile.

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Arthurian LegengsArthur, Guineviere, Merlin, Lancelot and

Perceval replace the light stained Duke, Du-

chess, Wizard, Champion and Assassin Tiles.

Morgana and Mordred replace the dark

stained Duke and Duchess Tiles.

Both players start with the usual step-up of

two Footman to go along with their Arthur and

Morgana tiles, respectively.

To win the Arthur player must capture Mor-

gana (and Mordred as well, if hes on the boardbefore Morgana is captured). For the Morgana

player, capture Arthur wins the games.

Morgana/Mordred: If both Morgana and

Mordred are on the board at the same time,

their controlling player can place new tiles to

either tile; i.e. both Morgana and Mordred have

the power of the standard Duke tile for the

purposes of deploying tiles.

Fort Tile:Players can use the Fort Tile as

shown on page 9 of the base game rulebook for

any game with these tiles. However, they can

also play with the reverse side of the Fort,

Camelot. Camelot is an Expanded Play tile (see

page 7 of the base game rulebook) and so both

players should agree to its use before play

begins.Randomly place Camelot in any square in

one of the two middle rows of the board.

For the Arthur player, if one of his ArthurianLegends tiles is inside Camelot (King Arthur,

Lancelot, Guinevere, Percival or Merlin), then

the Camelot Tile gains Command ability in all

eight squares surrounding Camelot. On his

turn, any time those conditions are met, the

player may use the Command ability of Came-

lot; the Troop Tile on Camelot does not flip, but

the Camelot Tile DOES flip over to the Fort

side; as long as its on the Fort side, the Com-mand ability no longer applies. As soon as the

tile occupying the Fort Tile moves out of the

square, the Fort Tile turns over to Camelot once

more; i.e. the Arthur player can enter Camelot

on a future turn and use its Command ability

once more. Using the Camelot ability forms the

players entire turn, however; no other tiles are

moved or flipped, or drawn from the bag.

For the Morgana player, if one of his Arthu-rian Legends tiles (Morgana or Mordred)

moves into Camelot (i.e. its seized), the

player may automatically turn any non-

Arthurian Legend tile of the opponent to his

own use right then; simply re-orient the piece to

face the Morgana player (neither Camelot, nor

the seizing tile are flipped). As above, the

players should flip the Camelot Tile over to the

Fort side to show that this ability has beenused. The Morgana player must leave Camelot

and seize it again on a future turn to be able

to turn another non-Arthurian Legend tile (as

above, it automatically flips back over from the

Fort side to the Camelot side).

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Robin HoodThe four Robin Hood tiles (Robin Hood,

Maid Marion, Friar Tuck and Little John)

replace the light stained Ranger, a Footman, a

Pikeman, and Assassin tiles.

Prince John, The Sheriff and Sir Guy replace

the dark stained Duke, Champion, and

Duchess tiles.

The Robin Hood player keeps the starting

set-up of two Footman, but Robin Hood takes

the place of the Duke.The other player keeps the starting set-up

of two Footman, but the Sir Guy tile takes the

place of the Duke.

To win the Prince John player must capture

Robin Hood; for the other player to win he

must capture however many of the three

tiles that are on the board (Prince John, The

Sheriff, Sir Guy). For example, if only Prince

John is on the board and that tile is captured,the Robin Hood player wins, but if Sir Guy and

The Sheriff are on the board and Prince John

is captured, the Robin Hood player would not

win (he still must capture The Sheriff and Sir

Guy); see Mantle of The Duke below.

Mantle of The Duke: The mantle of theDuke (i.e. where tiles are placed on the board

once theyre drawn from the bag) changes for

the Prince John player based upon which tiles

are on the board. The line of succession is as

follows: if Sir Guy is the only Robin Hood tile

on the board, he is considered the Duke; if The

Sheriff is on the board, even if Sir Guy is on

the board, The Sheriff now takes its place as

the Duke; if Prince John is on the board, evenif The Sheriff and Sir Guy are on the board,

Prince John wears the mantle of the Duke. If

more than one of these tiles is on the board

and the tile wearing the mantle of the Duke

is captured, the mantle passes to the next

appropriate tile. For example if all three tiles

are on the board and Prince John is captured,

the mantle would pass to The Sheriff. Yet if

only Prince John and Sir guy are on the boardand Prince John is captured, the mantle

passes to Sir Guy.

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Siege Engines:

Middle AgesThese tiles replace the following tiles in the

game: Battering Ram = Marshal; Trebuchet =

Knight; Catapult = General; Ballista = Priest;

Engineer = Oracle.

Players lay the five tiles from this expansion

pack on the side of the board, then start a

game. When a player pulls one of the five tilesnoted above, they can choose at that moment

to replace the drawn tile with the appropriate

tile from this expansion pack. If the player

decides not to replace the tile, he cannot

replace the tile at any future time. Once a tile

has been put into play and then captured, it

cannot be selected by the other player pulling

out their corresponding tile; in all instances,

they are put into play one time.Note:Its important to note that these tiles

are purposefully powerful. Both players should

review all tiles and agree to use this set before

game play begins.

SMASH: This icon follows the exact

rules for Move, with the following

additions: this icon ignores any icon

with Defense in the name (forexample, Defense, p. 5, The Duke

Rules Booklet).

HAMMER: This icon follows the

exact rules for Strike, with the

following additions: this icon ignores

any icon with Defense in the name

(for example, Defense, p. 5, The Duke

Rules Booklet), and can capture a tileoccupying the Fort Tile (see p. 8, The

Duke Rules Booklet).

AREA-EFFECT: If a line connects

two (or more) icons, then all con-

nected icons are considered to have Area-Effect

and use the following rules:

If the player chooses one icon to interact

with a target square, all area-effect icons con-

nected to that icon interact with all of theirtarget squares.

Area-effect icons capture both friendly and

enemy tiles when they interact with their target

squares.

If an area-effect set of icons includes the

Hammer icon(s), which can ignore any icons

with Defense in the name, any other Strike

icons are still affected by Defense icons,

using the standard rules.

Non-Capture Move/Jump/Slide/

Jump Slide: Non-Capture Move/

Jump/Slide/Jump Slide icons follow all

the exact same rules as the Move,

Jump, Slide and Jump Slide icons (see

p. 4, The Duke Rules Booklet), with

the following exceptions: there cannot

be a tile (either friendly or enemy) inthe target square or in a square the

tile is attempting to move trough; if

there is a tile, the active tile cannot be

moved into that square (meaning an

enemy tile cannot be captured using

these icons).

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In addition to the standard rules, the follow-

ing enhanced abilities rules apply to enhanced

tiles, as specifically noted:

REDEPLOY: In place of moving a

tile or the standard drawing from thebag, the controlling player of a tile

with the Redeploy ability may use the

following rule after announcing which tile hell

be activating:

The player draws a new tile from the bag and

first places that tile, then picks up the named

tile with the Redeploy ability and places it back

in the bag.

Command: A tile with the Redeployenhanced ability cannot be moved using a

Command icon.

LINK: Any tile with this enhanced

ability is automatically linked to

those tiles specifically referred to

within the rules for that tile. For the

Engineer, it is linked to the following tiles:

Ballista, Catapult, Battering Ram and

Trebuchet.

Starting Side: In place of using any

Movement Icons on the tiles starting side, this

tile may be flipped (it remains in its square), in

order to also flip any other linked tile under the

players control. The linked tile that the player

controls that was flipped may immediately be

used again; i.e. activating a Move icon or

enhanced ability and flipping the tile back over

after its move is done. The player does not have

to activate the linked tile that was flipped over

after flipping the tile with the Link ability; if the

player does not activate the tile after flipping it,

then his turn is done.

Non-Starting Side: The player may choose

to move the tile by flipping it back to its

starting side (it remains in its square).

Immediately the player starts pulling tiles out

of the bag until the first tile it is linked to is

pulled from the bag. This includes either pullingout a tile from this set that was previously

placed in the bag, or pulling one of the

corresponding tiles that will allow a player to

select a siege engine (i.e. the Marshal, Knight,

General or Priest). In the later instance, a

player cannot choose to keep any of those tiles

but instead, if the corresponding tile from this

set is available, the player must select the siege

engine. If the siege engine tile corresponding tothe standard tile that was pulled has already

been used by the other player, the player must

continue pulling tiles from the bag until he is

able to put a siege engine into play; either

because a siege engine was pulled directly, or

the corresponding tile was pulled that can be

exchanged for a siege engine.

That tile then must be placed normally (i.e.

either next to the Duke, or the tile with the Link

ability; see below). The other tiles pulled must

all be placed back in the bag.

If there are no linked tiles in a players bag

and all siege engines have been selected, the

tile can still be flipped, there simply are no tiles

pulled.

Place a New Troop Tile: Instead of placing

a new troop tile drawn from the bag next to the

Duke, the player can choose to place a linked

tile next to this tile. The normal rules for placing

a tile apply; a square fully adjacent to the tile

with the Link ability must be open (i.e. this

cannot be used to capture a tile).

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Reinforcements:

City TroopsThese tiles can be used to replace the

following tiles in the game: Militia =

Footman; Thief = Assassin; Baron =

Champion; Watch Tower = Longbowman.

Before the start of any game players decide

how they want to mix and match these troop

tiles. They can choose to replace all of them,some of them, or none of them; both players

choices can be totally different. Only two

rules apply:

You cannot have both tiles in the bag.

For example you either have the Thief or the

Assassin, but not both.

In instances of multiple identical tiles

(such as the Footman/Militia), if you replace

some of them, you must replace all of them.

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