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Usurp the King is a tactical game where you play as one of five dominant families in the Kingdom. Use your influence to back the person that you believe will be in power when the dust settles. As the game evolves, you may find that who you are supporting changes. Daggers, Poisons, Conspiracy, and Bribery are only some of the tools at your disposal.
USURP THE KING is played over two phases. So much can happen in such a short period of time!
INTRIGUE PHASE Place Leverage cards around the courtroom. Giving the appearance of support. But that support might just be a dagger! And that dagger might move before it’s used.
REBELLION PHASE Use the Leverage cards to bribe, conspire, stab, poison, and shift alliances.
SCORING Determine which Court Member becomes King. The family with control is victorious.
Usurp the King has a hierarchy of seven victory conditions. To win as the Heir, you will need to eliminate (or make sure that someone else does) two other victory conditions (The Usurper’s and the King’s).
The Bastard and the King may both be working towards eliminating the Usurper victory, but they are in no way working TOGETHER!
Each game comes with:
5 Leverage card decks. One for each family.
11 Court Members cards
5 Family turn order cards
10 Tutorial Objective cards
10 Loyalty/Disgruntled tokens
After each player has placed their six cards. Abilities of the cards are resolved in card order (chart to the left). All Spies will act first starting with the Spy that is at location 1 and moving counter-clockwise until all Spies have resolved. Next Agents resolve, then daggers and so on until all cards have resolved.
TEAM PLAY
½ of the players (A players) will take a family player reference card. Their teammate (B players) must sit opposite them across the table. They will take the corresponding duplicate family reference card.
Each of the A players takes Teammates is randomly dealt 5 of the 11 Family Leverage cards. B players takes the remaining 6.
GAMEPLAY
The rules follow the base game rules. Each PLAYER will end up playing 3 cards instead of 6. Turn order is still serpentine.
Communication between players
Players are not allowed to communicate using electronic devices, notes and must communicate in a language that everyone knows (including ASL). Rudimentary signs are allowed but it must be possible for other players to intercept communications.
“This is a great quick game that you can play with your friends while you are waiting to get your whole group together. It is aggressive, but the short playtime allows for nasty backstabbing without people being so invested that they get mad.” – Christopher Smithmyer NRN