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My gaming group played our first game of Ikusa last night. Surprisingly, not a whole lot of rule hunting, in part thanks to the cheatsheet from this web site.
However, a couple things did come up and I'd appreciate it if anyone here could chime in.
First, the easy question: Does the game end as soon as a player conquers that 35th provinces or does it happen at the end of the current round, after every has waged war?
Second, a little more complicated, but there has to be an answer. It involves moving provincial forces; for example:
Phase D:
Province A has two spearmen
Province B has one spearman
Province C is empty
Province A moves one spearman to B
Then, Province B moves the spearman that was there to C to conquer it
Is this legal? Basically the question is: After armies are moved in Phase D, can single unit provincial forces move to take an empty adjacent province if there is a 2+ unit adjacent province there to move in a cover for that single unit when it moves out?
Or does everything happen simultaneously?
Make sense?
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Damo
Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
Plastic & Shiney!
Don't try this in a B-17!
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Have a look in the section called "Winning the game"
As soon as one player conquers his 35th province, the game ends and he is the winner. A player can win the game at any time during a round of play.
Second question
"Phase D: Final Movement":
"To conquer an empty province, move in either 1) an adjacent army; 2) one or more units that you remove from an adjacent army; 3) one or more proveincial force units from an adjacent province."
So, yes, you can move any unit into an empty province during phase D. You don't have to attack it first.
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Thanks, that answers the victory condition.
But, in my example of moving provincial forces...
I'm moving from Province A to B, then B to C.
If I moved single provincial unit from B to C first, it would be left empty, until I move one of the two provincial units from A to B.
So in phase D, I move one provincial unit from A to B. Then I take the single unit that was there and move it to C. All in one turn during phase D.
Is that legal?
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Alberto Vitali
Italy
Casalecchio di Reno
Bologna
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getgone wrote: Phase D:
Province A has two spearmen
Province B has one spearman
Province C is empty
Province A moves one spearman to B
Then, Province B moves the spearman that was there to C to conquer it
Is this legal?
Yes, it's legal.
Cheers,
Alberto
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Nick Donaldson
United States
Lincoln
Nebraska
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sbaracleto wrote: getgone wrote: Phase D:
Province A has two spearmen
Province B has one spearman
Province C is empty
Province A moves one spearman to B
Then, Province B moves the spearman that was there to C to conquer it
Is this legal? Yes, it's legal. Cheers, Alberto
In my circle, this was always known as the "peasant bump" - you just need to make sure that the same province doesn't participate in two "bump" chains
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Damjon wrote: Have a look in the section called "Winning the game"
As soon as one player conquers his 35th province, the game ends and he is the winner. A player can win the game at any time during a round of play.
Of course, there is an official rules variant outlined in the manual, for longer games, where it doesn't end suddenly, and the other players get a chance to take back the 35th province, thus postponing the end of the game.
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Posted Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:28 pm
