User Guide

As in the original boardgame, to win you must control the last living Royal Heir in the game and he/she must be crowned King
of England. To achieve this,
you must:
1)
Capture a Royal Heir;
2) Eliminate all the other Heirs;
3) Crown the controlled Heir
(in a Cathedral City/Town; requires an Archbishop or two Bishops).
At
the point that all three of the above conditions are fulfilled, the game will end upon the conclusion of the current turn and
the final screens leading
to the “Roll of Honor” will be displayed, Note that, however, your crowned king must be in England to
claim the victory--being at sea or in exile will not serve to secure the throne.
So, in as succinct as terms as possible,
to win KINGMAKER the human player needs to amass enough forces in one place
to capture one of the Royal Heirs (oftentimes an office will give one access without the need to overcome the city/castle defenses).
One must then eliminate (capture and execute) all the other heirs
to the throne, while keeping ““e’s own heir in England. Finally,
at
some point in the play, one must crown one’s heir (keeping in mind the order of succession). This is handled automatically by
the computer if all members of the same line ahead of
the heir are dead, one has two bishops or one archbishop with the same
army as the heir, and one ends the player turn in a city or town with a cathedral (indicated by a cross on the map). At the point
where all these criteria are met by any one
faction--human- or computer-controlled--the game ends.
DEVIATION FROM THE BOARDGAME:
In the course of devising this computer adaptation of the classic boardgame, some deviations from the original KINGMAKER
rules were required. Those who are familiar with the
original may wish to make note of the following deviations, as they can af-
fect strategy. The following is a brief summary-in no particular order--of these:
1) If a noble is killed (through battle
or plague), upon return to play they will always be placed at their home castle, even if that
castle is currently controlled by another faction (they are considered outside the castle in this instance).
2) If summoned by piracy or raid, the Admiral of England and/or the Warden of the Cinque Ports are not accompanied by their
ships. Only the noble himself is placed in the named location.
3) Upon being summoned, a” affected noble that is called to two or more places (due to titles, offices or bishoprics held) is au-
tomatically assigned to the last location mentioned.
4) A noble that has been summoned will be placed in
the city, town or castle named unless it is currently controlled by another
faction
(in which case, he will be placed in the same space but outside the location).
5) A noble will always respond to a summons, unless at sea in a ship.
6) If in an Army, any controlled Royal Heir is automatically assigned
to the most “senior” (not necessarily the most powerful)
noble present.
7) It costs all movement points to enter a Woods space, and further movement ceases for the moving noble(s) immediately.
8) If driven ashore by “Storms at Sea”, and more than one port is equidistant to the ship, the ship is automatically placed in
whichever is friendly. If neither is controlled by your faction, it will be placed in whichever is neutral, if neither is friendly
or neutral, the choice is randomly made by the program.
9) Ships have variable troop-carrying capacities. Remember, however, that a location-specific bonus associated with an office
is no longer given added the moment
the noble boards a ship.
While there may be other minor variations in the computer version from the
original McNeil design, these are rarely seen and
so trivial as not to affect strategy in any manner. Should you have a question on the rules of the game, please feel free to jot them
down and send them (along with a self-addressed, stamped envelop) to The Avalon Hill Game Company.