Play defensively

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From: Oversee the Middle Game


Keep the risks minimal. Protect your own, tend your wounded, and shore up your supplies.

Game Instructions: Success removes one point of Strategic Weaknesses and may also remove one point of Wounds. Failure removes one point of Positional Advantages.


Challenge information

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  • 0 - almost impossible (10%)
  • 1 - high-risk (20%)
  • 2 - high-risk (30%)
  • 3 - tough (40%)
  • 4 - very chancy (50%)
  • 5 - chancy (60%)
  • 6 - modest (70%)
  • 7 - very modest (80%)
  • 8 - low-risk (90%)
  • 9 and above - straightforward (100%)

Success

Castle

Your king is defended, and the defenders defended in turn. Nothing will get to him in here. It is the best position for men holding thrones that don't belong to them. (At this moment in play, your King is not a man. The point holds.)

Alternative Success

Hospital

In a heavily defended ward, the nurses tend to soldiers fallen in battle, and to spies who barely escaped. It is safe for the moment. No one expects the safety to last.


Failure

Drawn in

You come to stand close to your King. Vast areas of the board are in the control of your opponent, but here, at least, you are harder to assail.