Barnburners and Noblemen Master Set

The complete Barnburners & Noblemen tabletop wargame for 2 to 4 players. Draft a team from 24 character cards, place your acrylic standees on the hex map of Enemier, and fight until you are the last player with characters standing. The Master Set is everything you need to play; the expansions and add-ons are extra.

What is in the box

• 38 unique acrylic standees (22 Barnburners, 16 Noblemen), with 40 acrylic base hexes in four colors so every team is easy to tell apart
• 24 large double-sided character cards: basic abilities on the front, hidden back-card specials your opponents cannot read until the character falls
• 1 six-fold hex game board: the island of Enemier, from the Western Harvest to the Cobalt Coast
• The Rock: an acrylic tri-hex that sits at the center of the map and buffs whoever holds it
• 20 custom two-sided attack/defense dice (red sword hits, blue shield blocks), plus 4 six-sided and 4 eight-sided custom dice
• 16 metal-cast coins with a bag; the coins are the bank you roll for and spend on Diplomacy cards
• 28 Diplomacy cards that bend the rules mid-fight
• 10 wound markers and the full-color rulebook

How it plays

Each turn you move any of your characters, then each one takes a single action: attack, roll for coin, use a back-card special, or play a Diplomacy card. Attacks are fast dice-offs: the attacker rolls their attack dice, the defender rolls defense, and every undefended sword is a wound. Coin buys Diplomacy cards, Diplomacy cards win fights, and The Rock in the middle of the map gives +1 attack, +1 defense or +2 coin to the character standing on it, so the center is where the game is decided.

Three ways to build a team keep it fresh: balanced scenario teams for your first game, random pulls to a shared skill-level total, or a snake-order fantasy draft when the table wants to argue. Read the full rules and watch the how-to-play video, or browse the FAQ.

Why players pick it

• No painting, no assembly. Printed acrylic standees look finished out of the box and survive being knocked over.
• Real components. Metal coins, engraved dice and thick acrylic pieces, not cardboard punch-outs.
• Simple to learn, hard to master. The core rules fit on a few pages; the depth is in the 24 characters, their hidden specials and the Diplomacy deck.
• Scales from a tight 1v1 to a four-player brawl with alliances that the rules refuse to enforce.
• Hand-drawn art by Josh Calloway. Designed, playtested and illustrated by people over fifteen years.

Grow the game

The Merchant Expansion and Alchemist Expansion each add a new faction of ten characters, and the Storehouse Expansion adds six acrylic hexes that reshape the map. Upgrade the table with the neoprene game mat, competitive dice and dice tray. Expansions and add-ons are only sold here on our website.

Ages 12 and up. Designed and shipped by Sinderstone Games, Huntington Beach, California. Also available on Amazon; ordering direct is cheaper, and email subscribers get 15% off.