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2020
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The King is dead. The kingdom is divided. Three factions — the Scottish, the Welsh, and the English — vie for control and, across the sea, foreign invaders prepare to take advantage of the chaos. Players must marshal their limited resources to influence this power struggle, while ensuring that the faction that rises to dominate the realm favors them above all other claimants to the throne.
The King is Dead: Second Edition refreshes the accessible yet strikingly deep game with updated graphic design, gorgeous new artwork, and a brand-new asymmetric game mode for advanced play.
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Thematic elements
- political power struggles and manipulation to crown a ruler
- Britain with Scottish, Welsh, and English factions vying for control
- indirect influence and negotiation culminating in a power struggle
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- assemble_action — Two copies of assemble cards allow placing followers from the supply into regions.
- end game bonuses — Game ends via coronation (region control and influence) or invasion (three instability disks).
- endgame_conditions — Game ends via coronation (region control and influence) or invasion (three instability disks).
- maneuver_and_outmaneuver — Maneuver swaps followers between regions; outmaneuver swaps a single follower in one region with two in a neighboring region; requires a full swap.
- negotiate — Negotiate allows swapping face-up region cards and placing a negotiation disk to lock a swap.
- negotiation — Negotiate allows swapping face-up region cards and placing a negotiation disk to lock a swap.
- power_struggle — Resolve a power struggle in a region based on follower presence and discs.
- summon_to_court — After each action you add a follower from any region to your court to increase influence.
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- on your turn you can either take an action or pass if you choose to
- the map of britain is divided up into various colored and named regions
- this type of ending is known as a coronation
- the game will also end immediately with a french invasion
- summoning followers to your court is how you increase your influence over the related factions still on the board
- you'll have no cards to play for the rest of the game rendering you effectively powerless
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