Pax Pamir second edition

The combined control window and main map

This button will undo your previous action.

This button is used to step through log files used in play-by-email games.

This button opens a server control window for online games.

This button allows you to changes side or leave the game to free up your seat for another player.

This button opens the following small window:

Clicking a 2-5 player setup button will set up the game for the selected number of players. Please note that there is a significant delay between clicking and the setup being completed.

Clicking Input Names after setup will generate prompts to set the names of the players in the game.

Clicking Wakhan Rule Setting allows selection of the rules used in determining Wakhan rule. Details in the Wakhan entry below.

    The red, blue, black, tan, and grey buttons open player windows.

This button opens the Wakhan window.

This button shows the player aid.

This button opens a window that allows for note taking.

This button takes a screenshot of the map.

This button zooms in.

This button allows selection of zoom (default is 20%, mouseover zoom is 100%).

This button zooms out.

This button removes all blocks from the board after a successful Dominance Check.

This button discards all events in the "events in effect" area after a Dominance Check.

This button executes step four of cleanup as described in the rules.

This button reports that your turn is over for the benefit of other players. The module does not track turns.

The "events in effect" area is for events that have an ongoing effect.

The small dotted circle indicates player order and first player. After setup, clicking on an icon in the seating arrangement is another way to open a player window.

The large outer dotted rounded rectangle is where court cards are played. Court cards are highlighted by the colour of the player who played them. When Wakhan is in the game, Wakhan's court is indicated, and all of Wakhan's court cards must be played to Wakhan's court.

After setup, right-click a loyalty dial to select starting loyalty. Numbers around your dial indicate the number of tokens NOT in your stack of tokens, the number of rupees you have, and the number of prizes behind your dial.

Selecting "Wakhan" replaces the dial with a three-colour Wakhan dial that invisibly follows pragmatic loyalty and tracks the three different prize types instead of prize total.

   The coalition blocks switch between army and road depending on where they are placed. Right-clicking a block and selecting Return removes it from the board, sending it to the bottom-most open space in the column of blocks.

Rule is automatically calculated and indicated by coloured ruler tokens. No rule is indicated by the absence of a ruler token. This replaces the method for indicating rule described in the rules, and the module does not feature moveable ruler tokens.

Right-clicking a rupee allows selection of Take, to send it to your stack of rupees (or Wakhan's), or Return, to send it to the Bank.

Player hands

This button shifts all court cards highlighted in the player colour clockwise around the court track.

This button shifts all court cards highlighted in the player colour anticlockwise around the court track.

Cards sent to a hand all occupy the same coordinates, as a horizontally splayed stack that can be rearranged.

Wakhan window

This button shifts all court cards in Wakhan's court left around the court track.

This button shifts all court cards in Wakhan's court right around the court track.

The Wakhan window has two decks. The left deck is shuffled during 2 and 3 player setup, and cards can be dragged from the left deck to the right. Right-clicking the right deck and selecting Return sends all the cards back to the left deck. Right-click the left deck to reshuffle.

Whether or not Wakhan rules a region is by default determined by adding Wakhan's tribes to the armies of the most numerous coalition in the region, as described in the errata published at https://www.boxofdelights.net/wakhan-faq . This can be changed to follow the rules published in the first edition printing via the Wakhan Rule Setting button on the setup window, so that Wakhan's tribes are added to the armies of the coalition matching Wakhan's pragmatic loyalty.

Cards

• Court cards generate impact reports, change the favoured suit, and are marked as belonging to the current player when moved to Court. Court cards played to Wakhan's court are marked as belonging to Wakhan
• Patriots of different loyalty change your loyalty when moved to Court, discarding other Patriots and Prizes and returning Gifts. This has no effect in Wakhan's court.

Right-clicking cards provides a variety of context-sensitive options:

• All cards can be flipped over.
• All cards can be discarded.
• Cards in the market can be purchased, which sends the card to your Hand, to the discard, or to the "events in effect" area, and sends any rupees on the card to your player board. When Wakhan is in play, market cards can be radicalized.
• Rebuke, Rumor, and Pashtunwali Values ask on purchase that you make a selection of region, player, or suit.
• Some events in the market have a discard option that will trigger an effect of the event.
• Discarding a court card returns any spies on the card.
• Cards in a Court with an action icon can generate a report of the action. This has no other effect.
• Cards in a Court that have a prize symbol can be taken as a Prize. This rotates the card 180 degrees and places it under your loyalty dial, stacking with any matching Prizes already present. If the Prize changes your loyalty, Patriots and Prizes are discarded and Gifts are returned. Any spies on the card(s) are returned. Wakhan's prizes must be dragged and dropped under Wakhan's dial.

Pashtunwali Values in the "events in effect" area suppresses further movement of the suit marker until discarded.

Credits

Module made and art assets used with permission from Cole Wehrle.

Please contact Benkyo on boardgamegeek.com or vassal.org with any questions about the module or suggestions for improvement.