Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan

The players control Tokugawa and Ishida over seven weeks. Each week has A and B turns, with both players taking movement and combat in a fixed order each turn. Start with five cards each and set up designated and randomly drawn blocks.

Skip reinforcements in week one. Later, discard half your hand rounded down, then draw five cards; the player with more castles draws one extra. Draw reinforcement blocks according to the week track; more resource locations earns one extra block, with both players receiving it on a resource tie.

Each week, secretly bid one card for order. The higher number chooses who acts first in both turns, and both cards are discarded. For movement, zero cards permits no movement with a hand refresh, or one stack move/muster; one card permits three stack moves, while two permits all stacks plus one muster.

A normal move follows roads for one location. An entirely highway move, eligible leadership at the origin and a card-paid force march each add one. Each group of four blocks or fraction beyond the first four reduces movement by one. A block cannot move twice per turn, and a road segment cannot be reused within a movement phase.

Muster at most once per turn. Reveal any number of one clan’s reinforcement blocks at its matching recruitment location, or secretly place a single block of any clan at a friendly recruitment location. Mustered blocks cannot move that turn and may only support combat already initiated by on-map blocks.

After movement, resolve each location containing opposing forces. In a field battle the attacker deploys first, normally using one matching clan card per block. Before your first card deployment, leaders may deploy free and are immune to loyalty challenges. The special Ishida and Ii blocks accept any friendly clan card other than a Loyalty Challenge.

A deployment produces the block’s mon count plus one per previously deployed friendly block of the same clan. A sword card deploying cavalry or guns adds two, plus two per previously deployed friendly block of that attack type. A double-mon card deploys two matching blocks sequentially but cannot launch special attacks.

The side behind in Impact keeps deploying; ties count as a defender lead. Once you stop deploying, you cannot resume, but may still issue loyalty challenges. A challenge immediately follows an enemy deployment: showing another card able to deploy that block refutes it and returns that card to hand; otherwise the block temporarily defects for this battle.

In a field battle, each side loses one block per seven enemy Impact; the loser loses one extra and retreats. Select defectors first, then deployed blocks, then undeployed blocks. A castle holds up to two blocks in a siege. Its defender does not deploy; every seven attacking Impact removes a block or disk. Sieges prohibit special attacks and loyalty challenges.

Tokugawa immediately wins if Ishida Mitsunari dies or Toyotomi Hideyori is captured; Ishida immediately wins if Tokugawa Ieyasu dies. If both earn instant victory in the same battle, Ishida wins. Otherwise score two per castle and one per resource location after week seven; Ishida wins a tied total.