Board Game Oltréé

A cooperative story game of incredible beauty about the epic adventures of the guards. The game follows and develops the plot to the mechanics of "castle defense".

Epic Adventures of the Guards

Once upon a time, the Empire waged a merciless war against the Witcher King, the high priest of the Father-of-All-Monsters. The victory came at a heavy price: the Empire fell apart, and later ceased to exist altogether. After the era of imperial peace, this land plunged into dark times — times of complete devastation and sadness, continuous clashes between small possessions and gloomy religious beliefs. 

The only thing that remained unchanged — is the mission of the guards of the former Empire. Leaving their fortresses and citadels, the Guardians continue to defend the inhabitants of the former Empire, explore the wilderness, unite communities, fight monsters and return the treasures of the Emperor, giving people hope for the revival of the Empire. Now is your time to join the ranks of these brave Guardians!

Oltre! — this is the battle cry of the Guardians.

Chronicle of the Fortress Defense

In this cooperative game, players take on the role of brave Guardians who help the inhabitants of the Satrapy — a province that their superiors have ordered them to take care of. The Guardians must rebuild the fortress to ensure peace and tranquility for the inhabitants. At the beginning of the game, the Guardians receive orders from their superiors, which involve the performance of certain tasks. Fulfilling orders — This is the surest way to win.

However, it`s not that simple, as various events will occur simultaneously, making life difficult for the guards. During each game, a story (chronicle) will unfold, adding different situations for the guards. Along the way, the guards will encounter incidents, short scenes in which they can gain fame (or not). Players must help the communities of the Satrapy when problems threaten them. The guards will also have to face all sorts of unforeseen events. 

If the guards can stick to the intended course, maintaining the defense of the fortress and preserving their prestige, they will reach the last chapter of the chronicle and finish it. For a happy ending, the guards must fulfill their assignments as best they can.

Game progress

After choosing a chronicle, assignments of one of the difficulty levels, and guards with special abilities, players begin the game.

The guards take turns (clockwise). A round consists of 2 phases:

1. Determining a misfortune

The player rolls a misfortune die and moves the marker to the right along the misfortune track depending on the result of the roll. The track consists of 4 divisions. Upon reaching the 4th division, the marker returns to the 1st division, moving in a circle.

• If the marker reaches the chronicle division, the player opens the next chapter of the chronicle.
• When the marker reaches the incident division, the player loses 1 prestige point for each dangerous region, rolls a location die, and adds an incident card to the corresponding region.
• When the marker reaches the problem division, the player rolls a location die, and adds an issue card to the corresponding region.
• If the marker reaches the event division, the player takes the top card from the event deck and follows its instructions.

2. Perform 2 Different Actions

A player can perform 2 different basic actions.

• Move. You can move to an adjacent zone. The fortress is adjacent to each region.
• Rest. The sentry gains 1 provision token and 1 life point.
• Community Assistance (region only). The sentry gains a benefit from the community in the region he is in. The region must not contain any problem cards.
• Problem Solving (region only). The player makes the indicated skill check. If the sentry rolls the required number of successes, the problem is considered solved.
• Solve Incident (region only). The player takes the top incident card from the stack in the region where his sentry is located. He then passes this card to the player to his right. This player reads the incident out loud. The player plays the incident and discards this card.
• Build a Building (fortress only). The sentry must pay the resources indicated on the tile of this building. The tile of the constructed building is placed with the «Built» side up on one of the free building spaces. After that, you can enjoy the benefits.
• Repair a Building (fortress only). The sentry must pass a Craftsman skill check with at least one success.
• Build a Tower (fortress only). The sentry must pay the resources needed to build the tower. The tower tile is then placed on one of the corners of the fortress, with the “Built” side up. The effects of the tower now become available to the sentry. A region is considered protected if there are no incidents and the corresponding tower is built in it.
• Sentry Personal Action. In addition to his 2 basic actions, the sentry can take an additional action. The player can gain the right to an additional action by paying 2 provisions. Additional actions are also granted by some sentry cards or abilities.
• Temporary Action. These actions may appear on certain chronicle cards. They are available as long as such a chronicle card is open.

Skill Check

There are 4 types of skill checks: soldier, artisan, scholar, and traveler. The sentry determines how many skill dice he will have to check a particular skill. The fortress gives each sentry 1 die when checking any skill. Each sentry has 1 die of a particular skill. Some buildings give 1 skill die to each sentry.

The sentry rolls skill dice and counts the number of successes. A success die gives 1 success. The "Effort" die allows you to spend 1 health point to gain 1 success. By paying 1 provision, the sentry can reroll any skill dice once during the check. Usually, at least 1 success must be rolled to pass the check. However, some checks require a higher number of successes.

Victory and Defeat

After opening the last chapter of the chronicle, the guards must pass a final check. Depending on the chronicle, the end of the game may be immediate or imminent.

• Immediate end means that this final check must be performed immediately after reading the card.
• If the end is imminent, the guards have a few more turns before the final check. In this case, the game ends when the misfortune marker reaches the end of the track and returns to the chronicle space.

Depending on the result of the final check, the last chapter of the chronicle ends in victory or defeat (in long chronicles, victory can be small or large). Players must turn the page and read the appropriate ending to their adventure — defeat, small victory, or large victory.

Publisher: Geekach

Language: Ukrainian

Players: 2-4

Play time: 60-120 m

Age: 8+

• 2 game boards
• 16 building tiles
• 230 cards
• 8 sentry boards
• 30 wooden resource tokens
• 8 wooden sentry figures
• 7 dice
• 74 tokens and markers
• rulebook