Cardinal's Guards

A Solitary game for the Piecepack. The year is 1626, and France is under the control of Cardinal Richelieu. The King and Queen are weak, and there is no love lost between the King’s musketeers and the Cardinal’s guards. In a castle in Normandy, four musketeers have just broken out of solitary confinement. The castle is well garrisoned, with a full company of the Cardinal’s guards, but the musketeers are determined to locate the evidence of the Cardinal’s treachery against the King, that they know is somewhere within the castle. They form a plan; each musketeer will search a different set of particular halls and chambers while defeating as many guards as possible, and escape from the castle with the evidence. The task ahead won’t be easy, but there is hope, and the musketeers have knowledge of a secret network of underground passages beneath the castle of which the guards are unaware. In Cardinal’s Guards, the musketeers move around the castle, defeating or luring guards, while searching various chambers, before escaping the castle. The musketeers are represented by the four pawns. The coins represent the guards. The tiles represent castle chambers. The dice are used to keep track of the chambers searched. The player’s score at the end of the game is based upon the number of chambers searched, the number of guards defeated, and the number of musketeers who escape. The latest RULES Version 1.2 are located in the Files section (Piecepack.org may not have the latest version).