Patrician: The Messengers (part 1)
Patrician: The Messengers (part 1) Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 6 messengers
- 24 token with 2 prestige points
- 1 token with -3 prestige points
Preparation
Each player gets ...
- ... with 2 and 3 players: two messengers
- ... with 4 and 5 players: one messenger
Put remaning messengers back in the box.
Deposit the prestige tokens near the board.
Game Play
If a player plays a card with a star he makes his turn at first as usual. Then he can place - if he likes - a messenger on the board. For that the following rules apply:
- The messenger has to be placed in between two cities, so that the arrows point on the two involved cities.
- The two cities have to be orthogonally directly adjacent to each other.
- None of the two cities is allowed to be the city in which he just has built.
- For a city it is forbidden to have more than two messengers.
- In between two cities just one messenger is allowed.
Orthogonally adjacent cities are:
Roma/Siena, Siena/Lucca, Siena/Bologna, Lucca/Milano, Lucca/Ferrara, Milano/Parma, Parma/Verona, Verona/Ferrara, Ferrara/Bologna and Bologna/Firenze.
With 5 players also: Roma/Pistoia and Pistoia/Firenze.
Scoring
- If a city with one messenger gets scored the winner of a tower gets one additional 2 points token.
- If a city with two messenger gets scored the winner of a tower gets two additional 2 points tokens.
Game End
- The player who has the fewest towers with any number of their floors in the cities with messengers gets the -3 point token. In case of a tie, the player with the fewest floors in those towers gets the token. Should there still be a tie, no one gets the token.
Special Situations and Comments
- If a player places in his turn the last floor in a city and then places at this city a messenger, then at least the city gets scored. So, in this case the messenger affects the city scoring.
- But if you place a messenger at an earlier already scored city the messenger has no effect on the city.
- You don't have to place the messenger at the city of the played card.
- There are just a few cards with star. Therefore you should keep an eye on having such a card on the hand until you have placed your messenger(s).
Note: the printed sheet's assembly instructions (print and mount the token image on cardboard) are not transcribed, as they are not rules. Spelling and wording are reproduced as printed, including the sheet's typos.