Rules

  In this section of our website, we will try to explain rules of this beautiful game. (Disclaimer: adjust the rules as you wish! This is mainly for inspiration. Of course feel free to use them.)

Setup

• Print the map and get a pencil.
• Place your spawns evenly and randomly (turn the page upside down).
• If there are more players than corners, choose spawns equidistantly.

Expansion

• Each turn a player receives 2 actions.
• They then expand by taking tiles.
• Expanding to 1 empty tile costs you 1 action.
• You can expand at maximum 2 tiles away from your territory.
• You don't move, you expand.

Conquering

• The default power of each tile is 1.
• To conquer an opponent's tile your attack has to be higher than the opponent's defence.
• Neutral tiles require the same attack as is the tile's defence.
• You attack and defend with all adjacent tiles.
• The cost of conquering equals the cost of expansion.

Elements

• The second layer.
• They all have power - it affects their size and the required actions to conquer them.
• Mountains (brown, power 3).
• Lakes (blue, power 2).
• Castle (blackish, power 4). It's size varies (1 or 2). Spawns in the feature layer.
• Sweet woods (beige, power 2). Chopping down (=crossing out) one tile provides one log and removes the element's power.
• You can't jump over elements when expanding.
• You however can go around them.

Features

• Features are the top and third layer (the smallest).
• They don't cost anything.
• Gold (gold). People gather around. Grants you an adjacent neutral feature/elemenent-less tile.
• Village (red). Gives you loot in the form of actions. Loot by crossing out loot next to the map.
• Iron (gray). Resource.
• Material (pink). Resource.

Resources

• Log. Comes from sweet woods. Used to build buildings.
• Material. Used to train soldiers.
• Iron. Reinforces buildings providing them +1 power. Max one per building. To use highlight the tile's edges.
• They can be saved in the warehouse taking up 5 spaces.

Warehouse

• Each player has one the size of (actions per turn * 10).
• It is used to store actions by taking notes.
• At most 10 actions can be spent per turn.
• Used actions are to be crossed off.

Floorings

• The first layer below everything.
• Grass. Just a filler flooring.
• Desert. Water is scarce. Tile doesn't defend itself.
• Snow. The temperatures are freezing and you can't exist here normally. When used during movement, expansion range is 1. Even when only starting there and moving on other terrain.
• Water. Ports can be built here. Ships have +1 expansion range. Only ranged weapons can attack them from mainland. Attacking the coastline deals -1 attack.

Soldiers

• Change the tile's behaviour.
• Built by drawing the corresponding shape, using one material.
• Attacker (triangle) - +1 attack.
• Defender (circle) - +1 defence.
• Bowman (D = bow) - 1 power is moved, not expaned, to the radius 2 around the tile. They can't shoot through anything that would block them (mountain, sweet woods).
• Catapult (square) - Only 3 attack against structures explicitly in the range of 2. Requires open terrain.

Buildings

• Built using resources.
• Provide extra power and abilities.
• You can't stack them.
• Fortification (3). Requires 2 logs. Must be placed on your territory.
• Port (2). One per sea per player. Allows you to enter water.

Other

• Loosing your spawn means losing the game as well.
• The game ends, when someone can't do anything anymore.