Dre2Dee2 fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Nov 20, 2013

1. First, I deal with population. I start with 1 Man, 1 Woman, 2 Child, and 2 Elder counters.
   
   1. I convert 1 of the 2 Child counters I have to an Elder counter and place it back in the POT box.
      
   2. I place all 3 Elder counters in the first Elder box.
      
   3. I use the Man, Woman, and Child counters left to create Family D and place them with Ferocity 0 in Canyon de Chelly.
      
   4. I would lose 1 Culture point for each missing pop counter in an active Family, but I don't have any missing, so skip this. I gain 1 for each new Elder, so I gain 3, bumping me to 9.
      
   5. If there were any pop counters in the POT box left, I'd place them in the Out of Play box, but I don't
      
2. Family B returns its Horse Counter to the Resource box. I have 1 Sheep and 2 Horses.
   
3. If the player has at least 1 animal of (of either type) it breeds and you get another one. I get 1 additional Sheep and Horse.
   
4. There are no face-down Corn counters on the same space as a Family counter, so I skip this Harvest step.
   
5. Now I need to feed the Families. Each Territory has an Arability rating of 3 minus each Drought or Rancho Outpost (these haven't come up yet) present. I have 3 Arability in Canyon de Chelly, San Juan Valley, and Shiprock, and 2 in the Zuni Mts. (-1 Drought), so I can Feed 11 pop counters from Territory Resources. Each Sheep can feed 4 pop counters, and I have 5 Corn. I have 18 to Feed (4 full 3 pop Families and 6 Elders), so I use the 11 Territory points, 1 Sheep for 4, and the 3 Corn counter for a total of 18. The Sheep goes back to the Out of Play box and the Corn goes to the Corn bowl.
   
6. Next, I need to feed my animals. Each populated Territory can feed 1 animal. I have Families in 4 Territories, so I can feed my 3 Horse and 1 Sheep. Happy animals are good animals.
   
7. Elder Death Check. Usually, you want to roll within the Elder range. For this check, you want to roll above the number or else the Elder dies. The newly placed Elders are immune to this check as they haven't moved into the numbered Elder displays yet. Without going into the grim details, all my 3 active Elders loving died on me.
   
8. I roll for Drought recovery just like the Minor event. I roll a 5, but there isn't a Drought counter there, so I find the lowest numbered adjacent Territory which happens to be the Zuni Mts. I remove the Drought counter from it.
   
9. All saved Corn in the Resource box is returned to the Corn bowl.
   
10. IF I had already had a Pueblo Revolt come up AND it had been removed by a 3 cube Subjugation AND I had less than 3 Subjugation cubes in play, the Spanish would have lost 1 Morale here, but I didn't, so they don't.
    
11. Cube reset.
    

Oldstench fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Nov 22, 2013

1. All cubes are returned to the Raid Pool. This is good, as they don't get 3 AP per turn now.
   
2. Only steps 2 and 4 of the Enemy turn are performed. This means the Enemy only collects AP and performs Actions. Furthermore, Enemy AI counters are ignored. Only Subjugate actions are performed. Effectively, I'll simply be drawing cubes from the Raid Pool until New Mexico is Subjugated again. Additionally, all non-Red cubes drawn will go to the Recovery box. This means that I will likely lose all cubes from the Raid Pool.
   
3. Finally, Reset Cube calls will be ignored until this card is gone. While this seems initially, Really, Really Bad (TM), it's not so terrible as the card goes away as soon as three Red subjugate cubes are out, and a Ceremony card (or a Planning ops) will reset the cubes immediately afterwards. This card makes me lose time though. There are only 7 cards left in the draw deck and one of them is the game ending card. Let's hope time doesn't run out on my people.
   

1. I add up the VPs from Territories with Families in them. Shiprock (4), San Juan Valley (3), and Zuni Mts. (3) gives me 10. I subtract the VP count on the card (8) from my total and get 2. Since it's positive, I gain 1 Military Point giving me 8. Were it negative, I would lose the difference in Military Points.
   
2. Next, I subtract the Enemy Morale from my Military Points and place my Military Point counter at the final value. If I were to go negative, for each point below 0, I would lose 2 Culture Points. This is a bad thing. As I have 8 Military, and the Enemy Morale is 6, I end up at 2 Military. Enemy Morale is set to 0.
   
3. If I had 0 Military and 0 Culture Points at this time, I would suffer a Major Defeat. I don't. Go me.
   
4. For each Man counter I have in an active Family, I gain 1 Military Point up to a maximum of 7. If I already had 7+ Military, I would gain 0. This last bit is important and is one of the ways to "win" the game. At this point, for each Military Point I gain, the Enemy gains 1 Morale Point. If I was at or above 7 Military Points, the Enemy would gain no Morale. During a Passage of Time op, if the Enemy is at 0 Morale and there are no Forts on the map in the same space as a Family counter, the player wins an automatic victory. Keeping the Family Military value high is an important concept in this game. I gain 4 Military Points, moving me to 6, and the Spanish gain 4 Morale.
   
5. The Spanish also gain 1 Morale for each Outpost (not Fort!) in play. This is why you need to keep the Outposts in check with Raids. I couldn't because of my unlucky Ceremony draws and the necessity of using two Planning ops to rearrange cards. These shorter scenarios are (imho) misleadingly labeled as easy in the playbook. With such a limited number of turns, the game becomes far tighter. Every decision has to be heavily considered or you can end up in a very bad spot followed by a terrible failure cascade during a Victory Check.
   
6. For each Woman counter in an active Family, the player gain 1 Culture Point up to a maximum of 9. I gain 4 to max at 9.
   
7. Were there any Forts (not Outposts!) in play, I would lose a Culture Point per. There aren't. Skipped.
   
8. At this point, unless I was resolving card #45 or #50, I can spend Military or Culture Points to purchase a Cultural Development card. I pay 1 Culture to get Horsemanship which gives each Family with a Horse +1 MP during Actions. This is going to be incredibly helpful on later Actions.
   
   
9. AP is zeroed out and were any cubes in the Raided or Recovery boxes, they would be returned to the pool.
   
10. If there were any population counters left in the POT box, half (rounded up) would be returned to the Out of Play box.
    

1. Family A: Takes a Horse counter and gains 7 MP through Horsemanship.
   
   • I have Family A raid the Outpost at Shiprock 2 for 2 MP (5 MP left).
     
   • An Outpost raid is performed with a cube draw from the Raid Pool. As all 3 Red cubes have been drawn, I feel fairly good about my odds to get a good result.
     
   • Unfortunately, luck is a fickle and assholish mother-fucker and I pull a Green cube which means that I'll either have to have Family A fight a battle with some troops in the Mission or I'll have to give the Enemy +1 Morale. I choose to battle. This gives the Spanish +1 Ferocity (this is a DRM for the enemy roll). I roll a 4 and add 1 for Family Ferocity and 1 for having a Horse, giving me a 6. The Spanish roll a 5. With a 5 Ferocity, the Spanish are going to completely kick my rear end, so I turn in 3 Trade Goods and reroll the Spanish attack. I roll a 2 instead. With the 5 Ferocity, the Spanish end up with a 7 total. I subtract their 7 from my 6 and get a -1, which, in the Area the fight is happening, is considered an Enemy Victory. I lose the Man and Horse counter from Family A, have to drop their Ferocity to 0, give the Spanish +1 to their Morale (8 now...fuuuuuuuuuu), and drop their Ferocity 1 to 4. The raid ends, and my family slinks away with their tail between their legs.
     
   • Family A uses their remaining 5 MP to move to Monument Valley Area 2.
     
2. Family B: Takes a Horse counter and gains 7 MP through Horsemanship.
   
   • They spend 2 MP (5 left) and move to the Mission at San Juan Valley 1. Moving to an Area controlled by an Outpost (or an Area with an Area value less than the controlled Area) requires 1 extra MP.
     
   • gently caress 'em, we're Raiding. I spend 1 MP (4 left), draw and get a White cube. Hell yeah! One hit on the Mission and I get to draw again. This time I get a Brown cube which is another hit. As it requires 2 hits to destroy an Outpost on Area 1, this is enough to do it. The Mission is tossed into the Out of Play box and Family B gains 1 Ferocity. I also gain 1 Culture (9).
     
   • I use 2 MP to move to Shiprock 2 (2 left).
     
   • I'm feeling an incredible amount of hubris now and decide to use the last 2 MP to Raid the Mission at Shiprock 2. I draw a Brown cube which is 1 hit! Blammo! The Mission is Destroyed and pushed along the Area Track to Shiprock 1. The Family gains another Ferocity (2 total) and I gain another Culture (10).
     
3. Family C: Takes a Horse counter and gains 7 MP through Horsemanship.
   
   • I use 1 MP to move to Shiprock 1 and...
     
   • Raid for 1 MP. I draw a 2 White in a row, causing 2 hits. The Mission is destroyed and sent back to the Out of Play box. Family C gains 1 Ferocity (1) and I gain 1 Culture (11).
     
4. Family D: Gains 6 MP and moves to San Juan 3 for 6 MP.
   
   

1. I get a Man! Oooh, yeah.
   
2. +3 AP, Elders slide right.
   
3. Elder Actions:
   
4. • 1: + Military [Roll 5, Fail]
     
   • 1: + Military [Roll 1, Succeed] Culture 9, Military 7
     
   • 1: + Military [Roll 5, Fail]
     
5. Skip Tribal actions.
   
6. Reset cubes. All the cubes in the Recovery box go back to the pool.
   

Oldstench fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Nov 25, 2013

1. 4: Monument Valley 1. No Family counter there, so nothing happens.
   
2. 2: San Juan Valley 1. No Family counter.
   
   
3. 5: Hopi Land 1: No Family counter.
   
4. 5: Hopi Land 2: No Family counter.
   

• A: Tribal Council. I roll a die and get a 6. As this is greater than the value of the Area Family A is in (2) I get +1 AP. I will need that AP for the coming Raids.
  
• C: Yes, you can activate Families out of order.
  
  • I decide to use C, who are in Shiprock 1 with the Mission, to Raid the Mission and hopefully push them out of Shiprock. I pull a Raid cube and get a White cube! 1 hit on the Mission. It requires 2 to remove a Mission from Area space 1, so I pull another cube and get a second White cube! Booyah! The counter is removed, Family A's Ferocity is upgraded to 2, and I receive a Culture point, increasing it to 10.
    
  • Family C is feeling chuffed, so they decide to Raid New Mexico! I pull a Brown cube, so I place a Horse counter in the Resources box and increase C's Ferocity to the max, 3.
    
  • Nothing is going to stop Family C! They Raid New Mexico again. I pull Black and take a Sheep counter in case I make it to another Passage of Time op and need to feed my people.
    
  • At this point, I decide that it's best to move Family C out of Shiprock because Family B is there as well. I use 3 MP to Move Fam C to Zuni Mts 1.
    
• B: Family B is in Shiprock 2. I use 6 MP to Plant Corn.
  
• D: Family D is in San Juan Valley 3. The most useful thing they can do right now is another Tribal Council. I roll a 3 which is a success, and gain another AP, increasing my total to 5.
  

Oldstench fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Nov 29, 2013

Oldstench fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Nov 29, 2013