Volto
The next Doge of Venice is about to be elected: two families are in line to see their representative prevail.During the carnival, everyone wears masks, so it's the perfect opportunity for your family to eliminate the rival family.Discredit the opposing contender in St Mark's Square to ensure the council's vote!Your family takes advantage of the Venice Carnival to get rid of your rival for the title of Doge.1.Secretly deploy your forces in St Mark's Square2.Fight the rival family3.Discredit your opponent in public.Which family will succeed?
Number of players: 2
Game duration: 4 mn
Complexity: 2 / 5
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Rules summary
During the carnival, everyone wears masks, so it's the perfect opportunity for your family to eliminate the rival family.
Discredit the opposing contender in St Mark's Square to ensure the title of Doge!
Win Conditions
in Volto, your goal is to either:
- have your candidate reach the opponent's palace line
- capture your opponent's candidate
- have your opponent capture both your ladies
Turn
On your turn, move one of your masks either to an empty space or onto an opponent's mask, capturing it.
Capture
If you capture a Noble, Advisor, or Soldier, the captee is removed from the board.
If you capture a Lady, BOTH the captee and captor are removed from the board.
If you capture a Candidate, you immediately win.
Masks
There are 5 Mask types, each with their own movement style
Noble (3) - Moves 1 space orthogonally, may capture
Advisor (3) - Moves 1 space diagonally, may capture
Soldier (1) - Moves forward, as many spaces as they want. The spaces must be empty, except for the last one as they may capture on the last space
Lady (2) - Moves 1 space orthogonally or diagonally, cannot capture
Candidate (1) - Moves 1 space orthogonally or diagonally, may capture