[English] Europe, 1702. The death of king Charles II of Habsburg left the throne vacant and started a war all over Europe to settle the matter of the Spanish Succession. The Archduke Charles III of Austria, the Habsburg heir, was discarded by the last will of Charles II, signed almost on his deathbed, in favor of Phillip of Anjou, Louis XIV s grandson, the Bourbon heir. The Grand Alliance has been formed, by the Treaty of Den Haag, by Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Austria, Portugal and Savoy to preserve Europe s balance of power and reclaim the throne for the Archduke Charles. The players, representing the powers of the Grand Alliance, will fight the Bourbon forces composed by French, Castilian and Bavarian troops. Their goal, defined by a hidden agenda, is to obtain the best commercial and territorial concessions, and conquer the Bourbon territories. But this is no cooperative game: the winning player will need strategy and negotiation skills to achieve the best deals with the enemy and thus be the country with the most benefits thanks to the Peace of Utrecht. In previous turn reverse order, each player decides how to play one of the seeded cards for the current turn. The players may pay from their resources to use the card s text or may prefer to sell the card to execute one action. Each action is available only once for each turn and the players cannot execute the same action in two consecutive turns. The available actions are Recruit troops, Move them across the map or Attack the enemy in adjacent areas. Other choices include obtaining Resources or paying attention to their own countries Public Opinion (a.k.a. Will to Fight), for this will decide the order in which the new Concessions will be dealed. The card deck, composed by the most relevant battles, events and characters throughout the war, includes the exploits of the Bourbon armies to counter the player s actions. [Catal ] Europa, 1702. La mort del rei Carles II d Habsburg ha deixat el tron desocupat i ha provocat una guerra per tot Europa per arranjar la q esti de la successi espanyola. L arxiduc Carles III d Àustria, l hereu de la casa Habsburg, ha estat descartat pel testament de Carles II, signat gaireb al seu llit de mort i que afavoreix Felip d Anjou, n t de Llu s XIV, l hereu de la casa Borb . S ha format la Gran Alian a, pel Tractat de la Haia signat per la Gran Bretanya, les Prov ncies Unides dels Pa sos Baixos, Àustria, Portugal i Savoia per mantenir l equilibri de poder a Europa i reclamar el tron per a l arxiduc Carles. Els jugadors representen els poders de la Gran Alian a i lluiten contra les forces borb niques compostes per tropes franceses, castellanes i bavareses. El seu prop sit, definit per uns objectius secrets, s aconseguir les millors concessions territorials i comercials, i conquerir els territoris borb nics. Per no es tracta d un joc cooperatiu: al guanyador li caldr estrat gia i negociaci per assolir els millors tractes amb l enemic i ser el pa s m s beneficiat per la Pau d Utrecht. En l ordre invers del torn anterior, cada jugador decideix com vol jugar una de les cartes que formen el torn actual. Els jugadors poden pagar amb els seus recursos per activar l esdeveniment de la carta o poden vendre la carta per fer una acci . Cada acci est disponible un sol cop per torn i els jugadors no poden fer la mateixa acci en dos torns consecutius. Les accions permeten als jugadors reclutar tropes, moure-les pel mapa, atacar l enemic situat en hex gons adjacents, obtenir m s recursos o millorar l opini p blica del seu pa s. Una bona opini p blica s clau a l hora de triar les millors concessions abans que ho facin els altres jugadors. La pila de cartes inclou les batalles, esdeveniments i personatges m s rellevants de tota la guerra, a m s de les vict ries borb niques que contrarestaran les accions dels jugadors.

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