EL LIBERTADOR
INTRODUCTION
Board game for 2-4+ players.
Theme: The Latin American Revolutions 1809 - 1826.
VICTORY
The player with the most Victory Tokens at the end of the game wins.
The game ends when all Countries have been liberated.
THE BOARD
The board is a circular track of 41 spaces.
Each space should be large enough to hold 1 card.
There are 2 types of Spaces: Revolution and Country.
# Title:
1. Revolution
2. Columbia
3. Columbia
4. Columbia
5. Revolution
6. Venezuela
7. Venezuela
8. Venezuela
9. Venezuela
10. Venezuela
11. Revolution
12. Ecuador
13. Ecuador
14. Ecuador
15. Ecuador
16. Revolution
17. Peru
18. Peru
19. Peru
20. Peru
21. Revolution
22. Bolivia
23. Bolivia
24. Bolivia
25. Revolution
26. Argentina
27. Argentina
28. Argentina
29. Argentina
30. Argentina
31. Revolution
32. Chile
33. Chile
34. Chile
35. Chile
36. Revolution
37. Mexico
38. Mexico
39. Mexico
40. Mexico
41. Mexico
THE DECK
Players share a Common Deck.
There are 2 main types of Cards:
Liberation Cards and Royalist Cards.
There are 5 types of Liberation Cards:
Simon Bolivar, Leader, Troops, Battle, and Ideals.
All cards have a Force Value.
VICTORY TOKENS
Players share a common set of Victory Tokens.
COUNTERS
Each player has a set of counters of a unique color.
PAWNS
Each player has a single Pawn.
This pawn should be the same color as the players counters.
More than 1 Pawn may occupy 1 space on the board at a time.
DICE
Six sided dice are needed.
SETUP
Shuffle the deck.
Each player picks a color and takes the corresponding Pawn and Counters.
All players draw 2 cards from the deck.
Players roll high on the dice to see who goes first.
All players place their pawns on the number 1 Revolution space
on the board before the Columbia Country spaces.
TURN SEQUENCE
Players take turns.
Each turn has 5 Phases:
Draw Phase
Move Phase
Action Phase
Independence Phase
End Phase
DRAW PHASE
Draw 1 Card and place it in your hand.
If the deck runs out, shuffle the discard and draw from it.
MOVE PHASE
Roll 1 die and move forward that many spaces OR discard a
card from your hand and move forward a number of spaces equal
to its Force Value.
If you land on a Revolution Space you may do one of three actions:
1. Roll the Die and move again
2. Move to any other Revolution Space on the Board
3. Draw 1 Card and place it in your hand
4. Play a Counter onto any Country Space you have liberated
ACTION PHASE
--- If you land on a Country Space that has no card on it, you may play a Liberation
card to that space. Tuck it partially under the Board directly next to the space.
Place 1 of your Counters on the Space if you placed a card there.
If you have a card under a space you are said to have Liberated it.
You may chose not to play a Liberation card if you don’t want to or cannot.
If a Country already has 2 cards of the same type, you cannot play a third. For
example: Columbia can only have 2 Troop cards tucked under its spaces.
A Max of 1 Simon Bolivar card may be used per Country.
--- If you land on a Country Space that you have already Liberated (You have a card and
one or more counters there already) you may do one of the following:
1. Place an additional counter on the Space
2. Exchange the tucked card with one from your hand
2. Draw 1 card and discard 1 card (It may be the same card)
--- If you land on a Country space liberated by another player, you can either do nothing
or play 1 or more Royalist cards with a combined Force value equal to or greater than the
number of Counters your opponent has on the space. If you do so, discard all the counters
on the space and the card tucked under it. Remove the Royalist cards from the game.
--- If you land on a Country Space that is Independent skip over it and go to the next space
and resume your move.
INDEPENDENCE PHASE
If you played a Liberation card under a Country space this turn and all the other spaces for
that country have already been liberated (by you or others) the Country is now said to have
gained its Independence. Immediately score Victory Tokens (VT) for the country.
--- You gain 2 Victory Tokens for playing the final card to make the country go Independent.
--- The player with the highest combined total of Counters and Card Force values gets 5 VT.
--- The player with the second highest total of Counters and Card Force values gets 3 VT.
--- All other players with at least 1 card and counter in the Country get 1 VT each.
If tied for first, tied players get 4 VT each. If tied for second, tied players get 2 VT each.
Independent Countries are out of play. Pawns cannot land on them, they simply move past them.
END PHASE
Max hand size is 5 cards.
Discard excess cards.
COMMON DECK CARD LIST NOTATION
S = Simon Bolivar
L = Leader
T = Troops
B = Battle
I = Ideals
R = Royalist
F = Force
IPI = If Played in…
UV = Use only versus...
COMMON DECK CARD LIST
Name: Type Force Notes:
Hero S 8 F +3 IPI Columbia
Visionary S 7 F +3 IPI Venezuela
Revolutionary S 6 F +3 IPI Ecuador
Liberator S 5 F +3 IPI Peru
Miranda L 3 F+2 IPI Venezuela
San Martin L 7 F+2 IPI Arg/Chile/Peru
Sucre L 8 F+2 IPI Bol/Ecuad/Peru
Riquelme L 5 F+3 IPI Chile
Serrano L 6 F+4 IPI Chile
Hidalgo L 5 F+3 IPI Mexico
Guerrero L 4 F+4 IPI Mexico
General L 2 ---
Junta L 1 (Government Committee)
Chacabuco B 5 F +3 IPI Chile
Carabobo B 6 F +2 IPI Venezuela
Boyaca B 8 F +2 IPI Venz/Columb
Maipo B 2 F +4 IPI Chile
Pichincha B 7 F +3 IPI Ecuador
Junin B 3 F +4 IPI Argentina
Ayacucho B 4 F +3 IPI Argentina
Campaign B 2 ---
Uprising B 1 ---
Libertadores T 4 ---
Creole Elites T 3 ---
Indians T 2 ---
Revolutionary Army T 5 ---
Invasion Force T 7 ---
Foreign Volunteers T 7 ---
Republican Army T 5 ---
Discipline T 6 ---
Army of the Andes T 8 ---
Raiders T 1 ---
Rebels T 4 ---
Liberty I 5 ---
Enlightenment I 4 ---
Democracy I 1 ---
Declarations I 4 ---
Independence I 7 ---
Congress I 2 ---
Constitution I 3 ---
Reforms I 5 ---
Liberalism I 2 ---
Autonomy I 8 ---
Age of Revolution I 6 ---
Ferdinand VII R 2 ---
Reclaim Provinces R 2 ---
Loyalist Armies R 1 ---
Royalist Forces R 1 ---
Military Defeat R 1 ---
Spanish Garrisons R 1 ---
General Morillo R 3 ---
Battle of Rancagua R 1 ---
Exile R 2 UV Simon/Leader
Capture R 1 ---
LINKS
Simon Bolivar Wikipedia
