Alpujarras: Rebellion & Punishment

The path to the War of the Alpujarras (1568-1571) began with the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492. Decades of tensions and the forced assimilation of the Moriscos culminated in the 1568 rebellion, aimed at reestablishing a Muslim kingdom in southern Spain. In December 1568, Hernando de Valor, a descendant of the Umayyads, adopted the name Aben Humeya and was proclaimed king of the Moriscos. Despite attempts such as the uprising in the Albaicín district of Granada, the war spread rapidly throughout the former Nasrid kingdom. Among the Morisco troops are the Monfíes, Muslim bandits who did not accept the Nasrid surrender and had been waging a guerrilla war in the Sierra Nevada mountains for decades, and the Gandules, militias of young men who organized around the mosques. Later, they received help from Turkish Janissaries and Berber corsairs, and even Mujahideen arrived to fight in the Holy War against the Christians. Meanwhile, fearing Ottoman expansion and a new Muslim kingdom, Philip II sent his half-brother, Don Juan of Austria, to suppress the rebellion. The conflict turned into a civil war that pitted Christians against Muslims, with the participation of Spanish tercios, Berber corsairs, and Ottoman soldiers. Rebellion & Punishment: War Of The Alpujarras is a 1-2 players strategical card-driven game that recreates the war between the rebel Moriscos who attempted to re-establish the Muslim Kingdom of Granada and the Christian troops of the Kingdom of Spain who fought to prevent it. Cards are played as Action Points or as Events, allowing players to advance across the terrain or perform actions specific to their faction. The game map reproduces the entire territory of the former Nasrid Kingdom of Granada and includes the areas where uprisings and battles took place. —description from the publisher