Play defensively
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From: Oversee the Middle Game
Keep the risks minimal. Protect your own, tend your wounded, and shore up your supplies.
Game Instructions: Success removes one point of Strategic Weaknesses and may also remove one point of Wounds. Failure removes one point of Positional Advantages.
Challenge information
Narrow, 
A Player of Chess 4 (50% base)
- 0 - almost impossible (10%)
- 1 - high-risk (20%)
- 2 - high-risk (30%)
- 3 - tough (40%)
- 4 - very chancy (50%)
- 5 - chancy (60%)
- 6 - modest (70%)
- 7 - very modest (80%)
- 8 - low-risk (90%)
- 9 and above - straightforward (100%)
Success
Castle
Your king is defended, and the defenders defended in turn. Nothing will get to him in here. It is the best position for men holding thrones that don't belong to them. (At this moment in play, your King is not a man. The point holds.)
You've gained 1 x Progress on the Board- You've lost 1 x Strategic Weaknesses
You now have (
Positional Advantages-
Strategic Weaknesses) x Position on the Board: Distance ahead- You now have ( Strategic Weaknesses- Positional Advantages) x Position on the Board: Distance behind
Alternative Success
Hospital
In a heavily defended ward, the nurses tend to soldiers fallen in battle, and to spies who barely escaped. It is safe for the moment. No one expects the safety to last.
Wounds is dropping… (-1 CP)- You've lost 1 x Strategic Weaknesses
- You've gained 1 x Progress on the Board
- You now have ( Positional Advantages- Strategic Weaknesses) x Position on the Board: Distance ahead
- You now have ( Strategic Weaknesses- Positional Advantages) x Position on the Board: Distance behind
Failure
Drawn in
You come to stand close to your King. Vast areas of the board are in the control of your opponent, but here, at least, you are harder to assail.
- You've gained 1 x Progress on the Board
You've lost 1 x Positional Advantages- You now have ( Positional Advantages- Strategic Weaknesses) x Position on the Board: Distance ahead
- You now have ( Strategic Weaknesses- Positional Advantages) x Position on the Board: Distance behind
