rk Cit Da ies Vol. I Welcome to Tortuga! The year is 1667 and you are a pirate sailing the waters of the Caribbean. A Spanish Galleon foats nearby, and you’ve talked your crewmates into working together to steal all of its treasure. What you haven’t told your fellow pirates is that you have no intention to share the treasure once you have it. You are still loyal to your native country, and keeping the treasure for yourself will fnally buy you some respect back home. Some of your crewmates have told you that they share your loyalty and that they’ll help you maroon the greedy pirates on your ship to the rocky island of Tortuga. But you’ve seen your friends’ loaded pistols and heard their whisperings of a mutiny. You know that nobody can be trusted... www.facadegames.com 2 - 9 Players • 20 - 40 Minutes • Ages 13+ SET UP 1. Lay out the playing mat in the center of the table. Place the orange explosion token aside. 2. Pull out the needed Loyalty cards based on the table below. Shufe and deal one to each player, face-down. Secretly view your Loyalty card and place it face-down. This is your team. You may not reveal your Loyalty card until the game is over. RULES OVERVIEW layers will be divided into teams of British and French pirates. In games with an odd number of Pplayers, there will also be a Dutch pirate. You will begin the game on either the Flying Dutchman or the Jolly Roger, but the other players on your ship will not necessarily be on your team. During the game you will use Vote cards to participate in Attacks to get treasure from the Spanish Galleon, in Mutinies to maroon selfsh captains, and in Brawls to control the two pieces of treasure on Tortuga. You will also view, reveal, and force other players to reveal Event cards in order to help your friends and harm your enemies. When the Spanish Armada Event card is revealed, the team (French or British) with the most treasure wins the game. Treasure in both ships’ holds and in the French and British areas on Tortuga 3. Shufe the Vote cards and deal 3 to each player are added together. In games with an odd number of face-down. You may view these cards at anytime, but players, if teams are tied when the Spanish Armada card you may not show them to other players. Place the is revealed, the Dutch player wins. remaining Vote cards in a face-down stack on the table to form the Vote deck. 4. The Event cards have the Tortuga 1667 logo on their backs. Prepare the Event deck by frst choosing 3 of the starred Event cards, either randomly or through group consensus. Place the other starred Event cards back in the game box, as they will not be used during the game. Note: If you are playing with 2 or 3 players, also remove all Albatross cards from the Event deck. It is also recommended that you do not use the Facade or Cabin Fever starred cards. Place the Spanish Armada card aside. Shufe all other Event cards (including the 3 chosen starred cards) and place them in a face-down deck on the In this example, if the Spanish Armada was revealed the table. Place the Spanish Armada card at the bottom French would win since they have 5 total treasures (3 on the Jolly Roger, and 2 on Tortuga), and the British only have 3 of this deck. Place the top 5 Event cards of the (2 on the Flying Dutchman, and 1 on the Jolly Roger. completed deck face-down in a row next to the 1-5 spots on the playing mat. 1 2 5. Each player selects a Brethren of the Coast card HOW TO PLAY and places it in front of them. Place the pawns that awns will move around during the game. Whenever match the selected Brethren of the Coast cards into your pawn is at the front of a ship, you are that the pouch and place any unused pawns back in Pship’s Captain. Whenever your pawn is the the box. Shake the pawns in the pouch and draw second in line on a ship, you are that ship’s First Mate. them out one at a time at random, placing them on Whenever your pawn is at the back of the line on a ship, alternating ships (Flying Dutchman and Jolly Roger) regardless of the number of pawns on that ship, you are from top to bottom. The frst pawn drawn will be that ship’s Cabin Boy. It is possible to be the First Mate the captain of the Flying Dutchman, the second and the Cabin Boy simultaneously (if you are second in will be captain of the Jolly Roger, the third will be line on a ship with only two pawns) or to be the Captain First Mate on the Flying Dutchman, etc. If there is and the Cabin Boy simultaneously (if you are alone on an odd number of pawns, the last pawn drawn will your ship). There may never be more than 5 pawns on a be the last pawn in line on the Flying Dutchman. ship. Whenever your pawn is the highest-ranking pawn on Your pawn is the one that matches the color of your Tortuga, you are the Governor of Tortuga. Brethren of the Coast card. 6. Place 4 treasure tokens on the Spanish Galleon. Place 1 token in each team’s treasure area on Tortuga. Give 1 treasure token to each captain. The captain of the Flying Dutchman should place their treasure token in either treasure hold on their ship. Next, the captain of the Jolly Roger should place their treasure token in either treasure hold on their ship. During the game, treasure will be added to the treasure holds. There is no limit to the amount of treasure that can be stored in either of the ships’ holds. 7. Play Begins with the Captain of the Jolly Roger selecting an action. Proceed Clockwise. n your turn, you must perform any 1 action listed on the page 5-6. You must state which action you Oare going to use before using it. Players only get 1 total action per turn, but if you are a Captain, First Mate, Cabin Boy, or the Governor of Tortuga you may choose your action from the “All Players” potential actions list or from your position’s potential actions list. These actions are also listed on the back of your Brethren of the Coast cards. (Note: In 2-player games, each player gets to per- form 2 actions on each turn.) Game set up is now complete! 3 4 POTENTIAL ACTIONS layers can choose one of the following actions to Pcomplete on their turn. Captains Successful Attacks let you take treasure All Players from the Spanish Galleon. If the Call for an Spanish Galleon is out of treasure, Attack successful Attacks let you take treasure Secretly view the front of any 2 of from the other pirate ship. See “Vote View 2 Event the 5 face-down Event cards. After Cards” section for details. cards viewing, place them both back in their same positions face-down. Maroon any Maroon any other pawn on your ship crewmate to to Tortuga. You may not maroon Flip over any 1 of the 5 face-down Tortuga yourself. Event cards. Reveal this card to all Reveal 1 Event players and resolve the consequences card listed on the card. Replace the revealed card with the top card from First Mates the Event deck face-down. Call for a Successful Mutinies maroon your Mutiny captain to Tortuga. See “Vote Cards” Point to any 2 of the 5 face-down section for details. Event cards and choose any other player. The player you chose selects Force another either of those 2 face-down Event player to cards without viewing it frst, reveals Cabin Boys choose it to all players, and resolves. The between 2 Move 1 other Event card remains in its Event cards treasure on Move 1 treasure token already on your position unseen. Replace the revealed your ship from ship from the British treasure hold to card with the top card from the Event one hold to the French treasure hold, or vice versa. deck face-down. the other Governor of Tortuga Move your pawn from either ship or Tortuga to an adjoining Rowboat. Or, Move to move your pawn from a Rowboat to Brawls move the 2 pieces of treasure or from a the back of the line on Tortuga or to Call for a already on Tortuga to one or both Rowboat the back of the line on the adjoining Brawl treasure areas on Tortuga. See “Vote ship. Cards” section for details. 5 6 VOTE CARDS Brawl ttacks, Mutinies, and Brawls are all types of Votes. The Governor of Tortuga may call for a Brawl as their When a Vote is called for, all players participating action. If the Governor is the only player on Tortuga, Ain the Vote will put 1 of their Vote cards face-down he may still call for a Brawl. Only players on Tortuga into the middle. For each type of Vote, the top Vote participate in the Vote. card from the Vote deck is also placed face-down in Only the middle section of the Vote card matters in the middle. All cards in the middle are then shufed and a Brawl and contains either a British fag or a French revealed, and the result of the Vote is carried out.