Online Game Rules

Player Count: 2

Battlefield:

• Each game is played on a battlefield.
• A battlefield is an 8x16 hex grid, with a line called a centerline dividing it into two 8x8 grids.

Army Building:

• Before a game starts, each player selects one pre-built army, without knowing anything about the opponent’s army.
  • An army consists of units (hexagonal pieces that move and interact on the battlefield) and command cards (cards played from hand to determine what actions units take) with a total combined value of <=50 points.
    • Each unit and each card has a point value correlated with its overall usefulness in the game.
    • A card’s point value is equal to its cost.
• Each army is built using the army builder (an app which allows a player to select units and cards from their collection to include in their deck).
• An army must have at least 30 cards (it can have more than 30).
• An army can have any number of units provided the total value of the army does not exceed 50 points.
• Once units are selected, the player must choose how the units will be deployed to the battlefield at the beginning of each game.
  • The player must place each unit on a hex on the battlefield.
  • All units must be on the same side of the battlefield’s center line. Setup:

Setup:

• When a game loads, each player’s army is deployed as that player chose while building the army.
• Each player starts with 5 cards in hand, and a shuffled face-down deck of their remaining cards. The deck does not necessarily need to be visible on screen, but the number of cards remaining in
• A player’s deck should be displayed.
• Each player has a discard pile (same display requirements as deck) that starts out empty.
• Randomly determine the first player.
• The second player draws an additional card to start the game. Gameplay:

Gameplay:

• In turn order, players take turns back and forth until the game ends.
• The game ends when one player has lost units with a total combined value of at least 20, or when one player has only one unit remaining.
  • The other player wins.
• Player turn:
  • Perform 2 of the following actions, in any combination:
    • Play a card.
    • Draw 5 cards.
  • Play a card:
• Pay the cost in the top corner of the card.
  • To pay a cost, discard other cards from hand with a total combined cost >= the cost being paid.
• Perform the action(s) on the card.
  • Each card has one or more actions specified on it.
• Place the card in the player’s discard pile.
• Draw 5 cards:
  • Move 5 cards from the player’s deck to the player’s hand.

Units and Cards:

• Cards:
  • Each card has:
    • cost (Point value)
    • action(s)
• Units:
  • Each unit is a hexagon with:
    • Point value.
    • 6 edges each with a strength value
      • One edge is the front.
    • Health value
    • Movement speed value
  • Some units additionally have:
    • Armor value
    • Range value
  • There are 3-unit types:
    • Infantry
    • Cavalry
    • Range
      • Ranged units follow all the same rules as infantry and cavalry but have the additional ability to perform ranged attacks.

Movement and combat:

• When a command card says to move a unit, a player can move any unit a number of movements points up to its movement speed.
  • A movement point can be spent to either:
    • Move to the hex in front of the front of the unit and optionally rotate 60 degrees in either direction, or
    • Rotate 60 degrees in either direction.
      • When a unit moves into edge-to-edge contact with an enemy unit, those two units fight.
  • The unit with the higher strength on the edges that are in contact deals damage to the other unit = the difference in strength.
    • The unit that takes damage immediately loses health = damage dealt.
      • The health value on that unit decreases by the amount of health lost.

Health and defeat:

• When a unit’s health decreases to 0 or lower, it is removed from the battlefield, and its point value is deducted from its player’s total.
  • (The game ends when one player loses >=20 points or only has one unit remaining.)

Armor:

• When a unit takes damage, reduce that damage by the unit’s armor value before decreasing health (not all units have armor).

Ranged:

• Ranged units may move and attack just like infantry and cavalry. They may additionally perform ranged attacks.
• When a command card allows a unit to perform a ranged attack:
  • Select a unit within the attacking unit’s range value.
    • Range value is a number of concentric rings of hexes around the attacking ranged unit.
  • Deal 2 damage to the selected unit.