Abstract Strategy

Prestige is a strategic placement game, in which two players compete to reach the power needed to bring their kings on the throne. The city of Nova is divided into four districts, each of which hosts a different power. It’s up to you to manage your family, by placing each member in a strategic position and choosing how and where to gain either political, religious, economic or military supremacy.

A game of high strategy that will bring a growing challenge to the two contenders.

"Not all battles are won with weapons".
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PRESTIGE

The city of Nova, capital of a great kingdom, is now lost in big turmoil. The king is dead and the power vacuum is spreading. Two important families are going to take the field, ready to do anything for supremacy. A silent war is about to begin. The two queens, ruling their families, will lead their followers in the attempt to conquer Nova in strong and subtle ways through palaces, markets, strongholds and temples. Who will set up their own king on the throne?

Prestige is a strategic placement game, in which two players compete to reach the power needed to bring their kings on the throne. The city of Nova is divided into four districts, each of which hosts a different power. It’s up to you to manage your family, by placing each member in a strategic position and choosing how and where to gain  either political, religious, economic or military supremacy.

A game of high strategy that will bring a growing challenge to the two contenders.

Not all battles are won with weapons.

OBJECTIVE OF THE GAME
The players must install members of their own House in Key Areas of the four ruling districts in the city of Nova in order to exercise always more and more influence and gain Supremacy over the other House to finally put their own King on the throne.

COMPONENTS
House White
1 King
1 Queen
1 Bishop
1 Knight
1 Rook
3 Pawns

House Black
1 King
1 Queen
1 Bishop
1 Knight
1 Rook
3 Pawns

36 Influence Tokens in different colours:
9 blue Tokens (Religious Power)
9 yellow Tokens (Political Power)
9 green Tokens (Economic Power)
9 red Tokens (Military Power)

1 Game Board is divided into the four ruling districts of the city of Nova, with four different Key Areas and a Secret Key Area in each district.

2 House Boards

Setting up the game
Open and place the Game Board at the centre of the table. Randomly pick up the first player. The first player will get all white pieces and will guide the White House. The other player will get all black pieces and will guide the Black House. Each player gets the House Board of his/her own House.
Both players place their own King on the square marked with 0 (zero) on the Game Board.
The player using Black gets one Influence Token of his/her choice.

Prestige is played over a series of turns. Each player’s turn has four consecutive steps.
1. Acquisition
2. Ability Use
3. Placement
4. Promotion

END OF THE GAME
If at the end of your turn you reach or gain more than 22 Supremacy Points, the opponent will play his/her last turn. The game ends at the end of that turn. At the end of the game each player gets Bonus Supremacy Points according to the following conditions:

Bold and Strong: +2 Supremacy Points if all of your Pawns are on the Board in any position at the end of the game.

Conformation: +3 Supremacy Points if you have at least one piece in three different districts in any position at the end of the game.

The player with more Supremacy Points is the winner. In case of a tie the player with more Influence tokens wins the game. In case of a further tie, the Black Player wins.

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