Last Men Standing

A solo card game in tribute to the genre of Squad Level, Suicide Mission, Ensemble Cast, Survival, War Movies such as: Sahara, Saving Private Ryan, The Big Red One, The Dirty Dozen, The Desert Rats etc.

There are 4 Decks:

• Soldier Deck - these are the soldiers you start with and some you acquire along the way. Most soldiers provide 1 to 3 skills (from a total of 18).
• Aid Deck - these are help and friends you acquire during the game. Most aid cards provide 1 to 2 skills.
• Mission Deck - this is the one main objective you are trying to achieve in the last game turn. Most missions require 4 specific skills to complete.
• Encounter Deck - these are the foes and difficulties you encounter along the way. Most encounters require 1 to 3 specific skills to overcome them.

To start:

• Draw 12 soldiers.  You may discard up to 4 soldiers and draw replacements. Soldier cards are kept face up in front of you. 
  

• Draw 4 aid cards and put them in your hand.
• Draw 1 mission card and place it face up.
• Draw 14 encounter cards. Place these face down in a row leading up to the mission card. This is called the encounter row.

Each turn has 3 Phases:

1. Aid Phase

• Draw 1 aid card and put it in your hand.
  

2. Encounter Phase

• Flip over the next card in the encounter row and see what skills it requires to be overcome. 
  

• Check your soldiers and aid cards to see if you have those skills.  If you are missing one or more skills, a random soldier is killed. 
  

• If you needed to use one or more aid cards discard them. 
  

• If you completed the encounter successfully roll 1D6: on a roll of 5 or 6 a random soldier is killed anyway (these are dangerous missions). 
  

• If all the encounters are finished, the squad faces the final mission. When facing the final mission you may draw an extra 2 aid cards.
• You only win the game if the final Mission is completed successfully.

3. End Phase

• Max hand size is 5 aid cards.  Discard excess cards.
  

Play a maximum of 30 turns. To win complete the last mission, and have at least 1 soldier survive.