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Junta Las Cartas

Intrigues, money and Coups

Banana republic as the cliché has it, a hotspot of intrigues and a help-yourself opportunity for your own pocket.

You begin with four politics cards – Influence, Building and Intervention – and 1 million Pesos as well as rebellion card in hand and a Middle Man card to store and secure money.

In rounds you play phases: o Receive Development Aid – the president draws money cards. o Suggest Budget – the president proposes secret many stacks, names value and potential receiver, can promise less, but only as much as he drew, and he can lie! o Vote on budget - play a politics card twice or draw a card twice; all cards have voting values; Influence cards give you an action and are taken in hand; Buildings give you one action per round, Interventions a unique action, they are then discarded. O Coup, in case the budged was voted down – the Rebel leader (whoever cast most votes against the budget) returns the money received from the budget, the president can re-allocate it; then all play cards for the coup, face down, for their secretly chosen faction; then conflict values of influence and buildings are summed up, you can play other cards to bluff. The losing faction loses money from their Middle Man cards to the winning faction, whose leader remains president or becomes the new president. o Draw politics cards. When the president cannot draw enough money cards in the Development Aid Phase, you win with most money.

Even in this Quickie version of Junta the card game does not lose anything on the cult original, all essential elements of the Intrigue republic are there and work well, El Presidente está muerto, viva Junta Las Cartas!

Players: 3-6

Age: 12+

Time: 60+

Designer: Johannes Krenner, Christoph Reiser, Sebastian Resl

Artist: Claus Stephan, Anna Kersten, Hans-Georg Schneider

Price: ca. 10 Euro

Publisher: Pegasus Spiele 2016

Web: www.pegasus.de

Genre: Cards, politics, simulation

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Abbreviated version of Junta, so to say

Comes with all essential elements

Great fun to play, works very well

Compares to:

Junta, conflict simulation card games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 2

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0