Build capacity
Territories you control and the value stored in your Treasury determine how much Capital you can retain.
◆ Financiers · faction guide
Turn value into ownership.
Financiers convert cards and Territory control into Capital, Capital into Deeds, and Deeds into recurring income—or ownership of the entire Gauntlet.
- Victory
- Run the Gauntlet or achieve Controlling Interest
- System
- Capital · dynamic limit
- Leaders
- Banker · Executive
At the table
How the Financiers play.
Financiers build an economy inside the tactical game. Every card can become an effect, Treasury value, market speculation, collateral, or a resource that helps turn contested ground into property.
Invest deliberately
Capital can purchase Deeds, strengthen battles through Subsidize, or support faction cards. Spending in one area delays another.
Make ownership compound
Each Deed produces income at the start of your turn, making future purchases easier and Controlling Interest more plausible.
Signature system
The mechanics that define the faction.
Capital and Treasury
Place cards face up in Treasury to raise your Capital limit. Capital may exceed that limit temporarily, but excess is lost at the end of the turn.
Deeds and income
Buy Deeds independently of Territory control. The more Deeds you own, the more income you gain—and the more expensive the next purchase becomes.
Play the Market and Subsidize
Risk a card for variable Capital, or spend Capital before battle dice are rolled to increase your battle total.
Victory
How the Financiers win.
Run the Gauntlet
Financiers can use Capital and ownership tools to support a normal territorial victory.
Controlling Interest
Own the Deed to every Territory currently in the Gauntlet and win immediately, regardless of who occupies or controls those Territories.
Faction Leaders
Two ways to lead.
Each Leader uses the same faction card pool and core system, but pushes it toward a different tactical identity.
Collateral, planned purchases, and flexible financing
Banker
“Credit closes the distance.”
The Banker uses cards in hand or Treasury as collateral to complete Deed purchases with less available Capital.
Leader ability
Line of Credit: on the first Deed purchase of your turn, one card may contribute part of the price as collateral; pay the remainder with Capital.
Offensive acquisition, occupation, and immediate control
Executive
“Take the ground. Close the deal.”
The Executive converts battlefield occupation into an immediate purchase and change of control.
Leader ability
Hostile Takeover: after winning onto an enemy-controlled Territory, buy its Deed during the after-movement Action Opportunity; a successful purchase immediately takes control.
Archetype and setting
An institution—and a method of power.
Financiers represent banks, counting houses, chartered companies, investors, and administrators whose power comes from making paper claims and material systems shape the battlefield. The Banker controls abstract value; the Executive turns acquisition into direct control.
Visual and archetypal influences: Ledgers, strongboxes, bonds, wax seals, chartered companies, warehouses, trade goods, route maps, collateral, leverage, and early-modern commercial power.
Gauntlet’s setting is still being developed. The six factions are institutions within a broadly shared civilization, not fixed nations or isolated cultures.
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