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Overview

  • Libertalia is an auction game with a twist.
  • During three campaigns, you have to gather doubloons and booty tiles to become the wealthiest pirate.
  • Each turn, you play a numbered card to try to get first pick of the booty - but each card has special powers that affect how the auction will play out.
  • Every player starts with the same set of cards, and you'll have to choose carefully which moment to play each card, and to try to read your opponents' strategies.

Structure

  • The game consists of 3 campaigns, broken up into 6 days.
  • In the first campaign, all players have an identical random set of 9 crew cards and 10 doubloons.

Phases

Each day has 4 phases:

Phase 1: Sunrise

  • In this phase, each player secretly chooses one crew card to play.
  • Once everyone is ready, the players reveal their chosen crew members and place them on the cargo ship from lowest on the left to the highest on the right.
  • If there is a tie, the lower tie breaker number goes the left of the higher.
  • During this phase, all special actions that take place during sunrise happen from left to right.

Phase 2: Day

  • The only thing that happens in this phase is all crew members with a day action (yellow sun symbol) must take it, in increasing order of rank. (lowest goes first).

Phase 3: Dusk

  • Each crew must claim a booty token from below the ship.
  • Tokens are chosen in decreasing order of rank (the opposite of Phase 2) so the highest ranking crew get the best selection of tokens.
  • After a crew claims a booty and resolves their dusk action (red sun symbol) - if any - they are immediately placed in their player's den before the next booty is claimed (which is important if someone is claiming a sabre later.)
  • In some circumstances there might be no more booty to claim when a crew's turn to claim is resolved which means they get no booty and go to their den empty handed.

Phase 4: Night

  • The only thing that happens in this phase is crew members use their Night actions (moon symbol).
  • The difference is all crew members in your den resolve their night actions every night.
  • So that Barkeep (his action is to score you 1 doubloon each night) you played on day 1 of the current campaign, will keep paying you every night (as long as he stays alive.)
  • Play those night cards early!
  • Note: All crew must resolve as much of their actions as possible, even if disadvantageous to themselves or their controller!
    • The Brute might kill himself, the Cannoneer has to pay 3 gold even if there are no eligible crew in a den to kill, the Merchant will sell your set of jewels or treasure maps if you have no other sets of matching treasure.

Booty Tokens

  • Chest = 5 doubloons.
  • Jewels = 3 doubloons.
  • Goods = 1 doubloon.
  • Each set of 3 treasure maps = 12 doubloons. Incomplete sets of 1 or 2 treasure maps are worth nothing.
  • Each cursed relic makes you lose 3 doubloons.
  • Sabers and Spanish Officers are worth nothing but have effects when taken:
    • - When the Saber is taken you must choose a character from an adjacent player's den and discard it if possible.
    • - When the Spanish Officer is taken your character is discarded instead of being added to your den.

End of campaign

  • After the 6th day of the campaign, the round is over.
  • Players resolve all “end of campaign” actions (anchor symbol) of crew members still alive in their dens (yes, crew members can be killed).
  • All used crew members are removed from the game.
  • Each player adds up the value of their booty tokens and doubloons (returning them to the bank) and moves their score marker ahead on the track.
  • Each player should have 3 cards left in their hand.
  • These carry over into the next 2 campaigns.
  • To setup for the next campaign each player gets 10 new doubloons and add an identical random set of 6 crew cards to the three crew left over.
  • Thus players may have a slightly different hand from each other going forward.

End of game

  • Rounds 2 and 3 play just like round 1.
  • At the end of the game the player with the most victory points is the winner.

Crew Powers

  • Parrot (1): Discard and replace with a different character (day).
  • Monkey (2): Give all your cursed relics to the player on your left (day).
  • Beggar (3): The player with the highest character in the ship gives you 3 doubloons (day).
  • Recruiter (4): Take back one character from your den into your hand (day).
  • Cabin Boy (5): Don't take any booty tiles (dusk).
  • Preacher (6): Discard all booty tiles but one (day). Gain 5 doubloons (end).
  • Barkeep (7): Gain 1 doubloon (night).
  • Waitress (8): Discard a treasure map to gain 3 doubloons (night).
  • Carpenter (9): Lose half of your doubloons (day). Gain 10 doubloons (end).
  • French Officer (10): Gain 5 doubloons if you have less than 9 doubloons (day).
  • Voodoo Witch (11): Gain 2 doubloons for each of your discarded characters (day).
  • Freed Slave (12): Gain 1 doubloon for each character in your den with a rank higher than 12 (night).
  • Mutineer (13): Discard the character with the lowest rank in your den (not mutineer) and gain 2 doubloons (night).
  • Brute (14): Discard the character with the highest rank in the ship (day).
  • Gunner (15): Pay 3 doubloons to discard any character of your choice (day).
  • Topman (16): Gain 5 doubloons if you have the fewest characters in your den (end).
  • Spanish Spy (17): Discard all Spanish officers and draw 1 booty for each officer discarded (day).
  • Cook (18): Take 2 booty tiles (dusk).
  • Bosun (19): Gain 2 doubloons for each character in your den with a rank lower than 19 (night).
  • Armorer (20): Gain 1 doubloon for each sabre (night).
  • Merchant (21): Discard 2 identical booty tiles to gain 3 doubloons or 3 identical booty tiles to gain 5 doubloons (day).
  • Surgeon (22): Take back one discarded character into your hand (day).
  • Treasurer (23): Gain 1 doubloon for each of your goods, jewels and chests (end).
  • Gambler (24): Lose 1 doubloon for each of your booty (day). Gain 8 doubloons (end).
  • Governor's Daughter (25): Gain 6 doubloons if only you have the Governor's Daughter. Otherwise, lose 3 doubloons (end).
  • Quarter Master (26): Gain 1 doubloon for each of your booty (day). Lose 8 doubloons (end).
  • Granny Wata (27): Gain 2 doubloons if there is only 1 Granny Wata, otherwise discard all Granny Watas (night).
  • First Officer (28): Gain 1 doubloon for each character in your den (end).
  • Captain (29): Gain 3 doubloons (day). Lose 3 doubloons for each of your cursed relics (end).
  • Spanish Governor (30): Discard all characters from your den (day).