Pax Pamir 2nd edition

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The control window

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, and close this window. Please note that there may be a significant delay between clicking and the setup being completed.

    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 list of all cards in opponents' Courts and Hands.

This button opens a list of all cards that have not been dealt to the Market.

This button opens a window that allows for note taking.

The main map

This button takes a screenshot of the window.

This button zooms in.

This button allows selection of zoom (default is 16%, mouseover zoom is 50%).

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. Please note that there may be a significant delay between clicking and the market refresh being completed.

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 "seating arrangement" area indicates player order and first player.

   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.

The region symbols on the map can be right-clicked to place a tribe from your board (or Wakhan's).

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 window (or Wakhan's), or Return, to send it to the Bank.

Player windows

This button shifts all court cards and spies left of an empty space one space to the right. This button has no effect if Court1 and Court2 are empty.

Cards and rupees in player windows form stacks if placed or sent to the same location. Cards/rupees in a stack move together. To unstack and splay cards/rupees, double-click the stack. Individual cards/rupees can then be selected for drag and drop movement.

Right-click a loyalty dial to select starting loyalty. Selecting "Wakhan" replaces the dial with a three-colour Wakhan dial that invisibly follows pragmatic loyalty. Playing a Patriot or taking a Prize of different loyalty changes your loyalty, discarding other Patriots and Prizes and returning Gifts.

The colour of adjacent courts is indicated by triangles to the left and right of the player board.

The Court area highlighting defines which spies are returned when a court card is discarded or taken as a prize, so ignoring the highlighting when placing court cards may cause the wrong spies to return or remain.

Wakhan window

The Wakhan window has two decks. The left deck is shuffled during 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.

Cards

• Court cards generate impact reports and change the favoured suit when moved to Court.
• Patriots of different loyalty change your loyalty when moved to Court, discarding other Patriots and Prizes and returning Gifts.

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. Radicalizing a court card sends the card and any rupees on it to the Wakhan Hand area. Move the card to Wakhan's Court to complete the Radicalize action.
• 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.
• Cards in a Court allow you to place your spy (or Wakhan's) on the card.
• 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.

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

Credits

Module made with permission from Cole Wehrle.

Pax Pamir 2nd edition 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.