BLACK DEATH published by Blacksburg Tactical Research Center. Copyright 1993 by Greg Porter. Used by permission.
Original art and text Copyright 2007 by W. Robert Portnell.
When you start a new game, you'll be asked to select either the 1347 map or the 1665 map (you could pick both at once, I suppose, but you'll run out of counters).
When the toolbar reloads, you'll see a button to toggle the Tracking Map. The tracking map is where you keep your death toll, your play order, and your particular mortality/virulence traits. At the top of the tracking map are the Event Cards (and a discard space); at the bottom are the other markers which go on the map to mark events or catastrophic kills. Don't forget to shuffle the cards before you start!
Each player should select one of the six "player space" maps A-F. These contain the tracking markers, the 20 infection markers, and have extra space to park your cards.
Infection markers are double-sided, with the "back" side using a smaller icon to denote a newly established infection (which is banned from "spreading."
Sorry, no rules, mortality table to roll on, or the like. Even the cards have had their descriptive text cut away. That's the deal I made with the publisher: here are the components to play, but you need a copy of the game to have the rules. The components are very basic, but so is the game.
Enjoy.
July 1, 2007