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Adamastor

This game is an entry into the Summer Solitaire contest and is a work in progress. The current rules can be found here:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1592810/wip-adamastor-2016-solitaire-pnp-contest-entry-con/page/1

Adamastor is a solo card game, where you will board in some of most important journeys of the Portuguese discoveries. You will reincarnate some of the greatest Portuguese explorers and revive some of golden pages of the maritime exploration: The quest to find the Cape of Good Hope, the maritime route to India and the discovery of Brazil. Or you can explore a randomized map made by 3 random custom map cards in search for the golden continent that your kingdom always searched.

GAME IDEA
In Adamastor, each round you will have to handle several threats in order to keep the order and prevent a riot that could end what could be a glorious journey. You will have to deal with adverse weather, unpredictable storms, and the unrest, fatigue and disease that will spread among your crew as the journey advances.
All of this his abstracted in a game that uses a deck of 54 cards and some markers and 1 pawn to track the position of your fleet.


Adamastor is essentially a hand/tableau management and set collection game where the cards have multiple uses. Each card in play has the potential to help or to hinder you to meet your final destination. Several events will trigger if a certain combination of icons are in play and you can counter them by managing the cards in play by swapping them with cards from your hand. Most of these events will hurt, but some might help. The challenges that the sailors faced in these heroic journeys are also abstracted in a system where you will gain traumas which will progressively increase as the game progresses, making your task even more difficult. In the other side, if you plan carefully instead of gaining a trauma you may gain a new skill, which will help you during the game.

HOW TO WIN
The only way to win the scenario is to arrive to the scenario's final destination. You will track the fleet position in the scenario card, and you will be able to discard cards from your hand to navigate and thus, progressing in the hope of arriving to the final destination. However morale will drop in the end of each turn (the card with the lowest number in play is discarded). In Adamastor, morale is abstracted by the draw deck. When the draw deck runs out of cards, you loose the game. And cards are always being discarded, either in the end of the round, either when you perform some actions. You can however gain some cards if you carefully manipulate the icons in play in your advantage or if you manage to find land in the way to your final destination.