![]() LOWEST STRIKE: The player who played the lowest number loses the fight, unless the lowest number was blocked by another strike.In a sword fight, each player plays one hand card face up in clockwise order. Typically one player handles the sword deck, the player on his left deals the life cards (roles, lifelines and stone), and the next one starts the 1st fight.(With Four Musketeers it's simply the remaining deck.) In addition, a deck of 8 cards is reserved for optional shadow strikes.Each player is dealt 4 hand cards (in the Three Musketeers layout) or 6 hand cards (for Four Musketeers). ![]() SWORD STRIKES (32 cards): The rest of the deck (cards 3 - 10) are meant for sword fights.PROTECTION STONE: The villain starts as the protected one: the protection stone is moved above his lifelines.In the competitive games, each is dealt 2 cards as extra protection (= 3 over role), while the villain gets 3 layers of extra protection (= 4 in total).In the solitaire storylines, each player gets just 1 extra lifeline (= 2 cards above the role), while the villain gets the remaining lifelines.LIFELINES: The top layers are extra protection, consisting of the face cards and the 3 aces, and are dealt face up.LAST LIFELINES: The 2nd layer of cards consists of two 2's and the joker dealt face up (the joker being a trap).ROLES: The chosen villain is placed face up, and each player is dealt a Musketeer role face down ( ♦J, ♥J, ♤J, ♧J).ROLE GAME: As a competition where each musketeer follows his own ambitions, manipulated by Milady ( ♤Q) alone or through Madame Bonacieux ( ♧Q).Įach character is given a role card and a couple of lifelines (face up) above it as protection:.SURVIVAL GAME: As a survival game between the musketeers set by Comte de Rochefort ( ♧A) or Monsieur Bonacieux ( ♧K).TEAM SOLITAIRE: As a unified team against the Cardinal Richelieu ( ♤A) or Comte de Wardes ( ♤K).The game setup is modular, and so you can be play the game in many forms and with different storylines:.The round ends when the villain is defeated (good ending) or when two musketeers have been defeated (bad ending). ![]() (The details depend on the chosen storyline and its villain, see further below.)
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