Barracks Emperors

Barracks Emperor PARTNERS TOURNAMENT!

Tired of competing against your Spouse - Partner - Child - Best Friend all week? Come to the Barracks Emperor partners tournament and win as a team!
Barracks Emperor is a trick taking game ( a la Bridge or Spades ) with a wargame twist. The theme of the game is set during the Roman Empire. If you have played GMT’s ‘Time of Crisis’, you will immediately recognize the art work, colors and card names.
NOTE – Barracks Emperor is a stand-alone game, and the game play in NO WAY resembles Time of Crisis.
Each card has a value from 1 to 8, and a color ( Red/Blue/Yellow ). The value of the card determines its strength, and the color is used for trump. Each card has a ‘super power’ that effects play. Examples include: Increasing the value of a card. Switching your card with an opponents card. Removing an opponent’s card from the trick. And many more…
Did I mention there are Barbarian cards that cause all kinds of havoc? I mean, where would a game based on the Roman Empire be without Barbarians!
Tournament Rules:
You must register as a two-person team. We will not partner up individual players.
All teams must play together for the entire tournament. No switching teams.
The heats will be played over two rounds ( The game is normally 3 ). The semi finals ( if needed ), will also be 2 rounds. The final will be the full 3 rounds.
We will be playing a modified ‘Swiss’ tournament. From heat to heat, winners will play winners, and losers will play losers. Depending on numbers, we may do a semi-final and final.
Heat / Semi-Final Rules:
Since we are playing only two rounds, we will remove 4 each of the red and blue emperor cards, and 5 of the yellow emperor cards from the game.