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The aim
Build majorities in the regions of Spain. Score points in regional evaluations and finish with the highest total. Your Grande marks your home region; it does not count as a Caballero. Equal final scores share the result.
Setting up
Each player starts with 7 Caballeros at court, 2 beside their Grande and 21 in the provinces. Randomly assign distinct home regions and a different region for the King. Each player has power cards 1–13. Shuffle the four action stacks separately and reveal one from each, plus the King card.
Rounds and power cards
Play nine rounds, or six rounds by skipping 1, 4 and 7. Evaluate the board after rounds 3, 6 and 9 in either version. The starting player plays a power card first; the others follow clockwise. No two players may play the same value in a round. From the second round onward, the player who acted last in the previous round starts bidding. Players then take their action turns from highest to lowest power card. Played power cards are unavailable until a special action retrieves them.
Your action turn
First recruit from the provinces: power 1 grants up to 6 Caballeros; 2–3 grant 5; 4–5 grant 4; 6–7 grant 3; 8–9 grant 2; 10–11 grant 1; 12–13 grant none. If the provinces are short, you may recall the missing Caballeros from the board, except from the King’s region or the Castillo. Choose one remaining action card. Perform its deployment and special action in either order. Complete one part before beginning the other. You may prevent the special action and deploy fewer Caballeros. The stack number is the deployment limit. Confirm the turn with the standard framework button.
The King’s region is protected
Deploy Caballeros from court only to regions adjacent to the King or into the Castillo, unless a special action explicitly permits other destinations. No Caballero, Grande or mobile scoreboard may enter or leave the King’s region. The King itself may move through the appropriate action. A sole leader in the King’s region receives a bonus of 2 points whenever that region is scored.
The Castillo and secret choices
Caballeros can be placed in the Castillo, but ordinary movement actions cannot take them out. Yucata keeps their counts visible. Before a general evaluation everyone secretly chooses one destination region other than the King’s region. Score the Castillo first, then move each player’s entire group into their chosen region, then score all nine regions. Secret choices stay hidden until every player has confirmed. A special Castillo scoring does not empty it.
Scoring majorities
A region’s scoreboard gives its first, second and third awards. With two players only the first award counts; with three players only the first two count. Players with no Caballeros receive nothing. A tied group drops one rank, regardless of its size, and the next group follows after that lowered rank. For example, counts 4/4/4/3 on a 5/3/1 scoreboard score 3/3/3/1. A sole leader gains 2 additional points if their Grande is there, and another 2 if the King is there. Tied leaders receive neither bonus. The first-place-only special action awards nothing to tied leaders.
Mobile scoreboards
The 8/4/0 and 4/0/0 boards replace the printed regional awards. A special action places or moves one scoreboard. They may be placed on the Castillo. They cannot share a region or enter or leave the King’s region. Special evaluations for particular point values use the current scoreboard.
Playing on Yucata
Veto cards are excluded; the second action stack therefore contains nine cards. Castillo counts remain visible. The card that removes one Caballero per player affects opponents only, matching the German wording. Names omit flags and ranks. Use the information buttons to open Bootstrap popovers, select highlighted pieces and destinations, and use the framework’s Undo, Redo and Finish turn controls. Revealing new round cards or resolving the final secret choice establishes an information boundary that cannot be undone.
Action cards
Move up to 3 Caballeros on the board.
Move your Caballeros from one region.
Move up to 2 additional Caballeros from your court to any regions.
Move up to 2 of your own and 2 opposing Caballeros.
Move up to 4 of your own Caballeros.
Move up to 3 opposing Caballeros.
Move up to 5 Caballeros from one region.
Move up to 4 Caballeros.
Move up to 2 additional Caballeros from your court, or your Caballeros from one region.
Each opponent secretly chooses a region and returns all their Caballeros there to the provinces.
Send one Caballero belonging to each opponent from a region to the provinces.
Each opponent sends 3 Caballeros from regions and/or their court to the provinces, as far as possible.
Choose a region to score.
Each opponent secretly chooses a region and sends 2 Caballeros there to the provinces, as far as possible.
Each opponent sends all Caballeros from their court to the provinces.
Each opponent sends up to 3 Caballeros from their court to the provinces.
Score every region with the most Caballeros (excluding the Castillo).
Score all regions whose first award is 4.
Choose a region to score.
Score every occupied region with the fewest Caballeros (excluding the Castillo).
Score first place only in all nine regions. Tied leaders receive no points.
Score the Castillo without emptying it.
Score all regions whose first award is 6 or 7.
Score all regions whose first award is 5 (excluding the Castillo).
Return one used power card to your hand.
Move your Grande to another region.
Move up to 2 Caballeros from the provinces to your court.
Move the King to an adjacent region.
Place or move one mobile scoreboard.
Everyone secretly chooses a region. Score regions chosen by exactly one player.
Choose a region. Opponents secretly choose where to move all their Caballeros from it. Choosing the source or King’s region sends them to their court.
Move the King to any other region.Original publisher rulebook (PDF, includes expansions not implemented here)