Ohne Furcht und Adel

Game preparation

With /join can enter 4-7 players into the game. With /start the game begins. Alternatively, you can use the game management use.

The game

Each player tries to build a magnificent city with an output of eight buildings as valuable as possible. Players always slip into the roles of different characters to take advantage of their advantages.

There are building and character cards, as well as gold. The buildings keep the players hidden on their hands and build them in their train by paying the specified gold price, which also corresponds to the winning point value of the game. The building is available in 5 colors: blue, yellow, green, red and purple. Each player can always choose exactly one character card per round.

The characters

The Meuchler

The meuchler can mow another character. This will not be called and the corresponding player must suspend in the round.

The thief

The thief can steal a different character. He gets the prey only at the beginning of the course of the best-character. He must not steal the meuchler or the cheerful character.

The magician

The magician can exchange the handcards with another player or the draw-down stack. If he exchanges with a fellow player, he must complete Exchange card hand. This also happens if he has no cards. If he exchanges with the pick-up stack, he can deposit any number of his handcards and draw as many new ones from the stack.

The King

The king will start in the next round and call up the characters of the row. He gets a gold for every yellow building in his city.

The preacher

The buildings of the preacher are protected from the mercenary (see below) and receive a gold for every blue building in its city.

The dealer

The dealer gets a piece of gold and another one for every green building in his city.

The builder

The builder may draw two cards and can build up to three buildings.

The Söldner

The mercenary may destroy a building of a co-player. It must pay a gold less than the construction price. It must not destroy a building of a city that already consists of eight or more buildings. The mercenary receives gold for every red building in his city.

Game sequence

Each player gets four building cards and two gold pieces at the beginning of the game. The starter is determined and receives the royal status. The king always starts the round.

For 4/5/6/7 players, 2/1/0/0 cards are placed open for this round. After that, another card is put aside concealed.

The king receives the remaining cards to choose from. The exposed characters are marked with a blue circle in the selection window. The covered card carries a red cross. The king now clicks on the desired role, invisible to fellow players. After that, his left neighbour may choose a card, etc.

The last player in the round always has only two cards to choose from.

If all players have chosen a role, the king of the series calls for all characters. The order is always the same: Meuchler - Dieb - Magier - König - Prediger - Dealer - Baumeister - Söldner. The last actions are listed next to the king. If the king is in the way, he can simply be moved along with the output window.

If you click on the king's figure, you will get a longer list of the past game actions.

The active player now receives a selection window with all its possible actions.

He always has the following possibilities:

he can take two cards from the draw-down stack per round and keep one of them or take two gold pieces from stock
he can use the skills he plays
he can build one of his handcards

Here as an example the action window for the king. The individual images are explained in more detail below. In addition, each role has a tool tip with an explanation.

If he wants to finish his train, click on the blue arrow below in the action window.

All actions can be carried out in any order; However, the particular property may only be used once per train.

Playing and final evaluation

The game ends at the end of the round in which a player has built his 8th building. The round will be played at the end.

Each player gets the winning points of his buildings. In addition, there are the following bonuses:

all players who have built buildings in all five colors will receive three winning points as a bonus
the player who first had eight buildings gets four points bonus
all other players who were able to build an eighth building during the last round will receive two points bonus.

The player with most points wins. At the same time, the player wins more points from buildings.

Explanatory notes to the game

Player display

In the player window you can see all open play elements:

top left the number of gold pieces
left in the middle the number of handcards
left below hide behind the barrel the player's hand maps. You can view your own handcards by clicking on the Faß
The selected character is displayed in the middle if it has already been called. Otherwise there is a question mark.
The crown shows the current king (Start player) of the round

Actions

General

Take two gold

Pull two cards from the draw pile: the card you want to keep, click on, the other is automatically deposited.

Building.

When selecting, the selection of your own handcards appears. Building is done by clicking on the desired building if there is enough gold.

Finish the train

Meuchler

Melody a character

Click on the Meucheln, then the characters in the game appear. Choice by clicking.

The

Click to stand, then the characters that can be stolen appear. Choice by clicking.

Magic

Click for a handbook exchange with a co-player, then the characters with which to be exchanged appear. Choice by clicking.

Click for handcard exchange with the draw-down stack. From the hand maps you select all you want to give and click "OK".

King

The king receives a piece of gold for every yellow building.

Prediger

The preacher receives a piece of gold for each blue building.

Dealers

The dealer receives a gold piece for each green building.

The dealer receives a gold piece as a property of his role

Construction master

The builder may draw two cards and keep them both. This action is independent of normal card drawing (two draw, one keep).

The Baumenu is a bit different from the other characters. Since the builder can build up to three buildings in one round, he can select up to three buildings after clicking on the building button and then confirms his choice with "OK".

mercenaries

The mercenary receives a piece of gold for each red building.

The mercenary tears a building of a co-player.

After clicking on the "record" button, the selection of the players appears. If you drive the mouse to the name of a co-player, all its buildings with their construction costs are displayed. To tear off, click on the desired building. Note that a piece of gold has to be paid less when tearing off than the construction price was!