Game

• 5 Rounds, 6 Phases
• Each round:
  • Events
    • Reveal the next event token(s)
      • If a player passes a token during scoring, bump it along to be ontop of the next token
    • Update initiative
    • Refresh exhaused skills (turn them upgright)
  • Draw Cards
    • Draw 4, discard to 7
  • Actions
    • Following initiative track, each player gets 3 actions, 1 at a time, use action tracker to track
    • Actions Available:
      • Move
        • Discard 1+ cards, add up movement icons into points, spend points to move units
        • Movement stops upon encountering enemy/trog token (more units can move in to join though)
        • Next resolve:
          • Exploration tokens
          • Trog tokens
          • If uncontested, place control token
          • If contested, place battle token. until resolved:
            • no units may enter this region
            • place attacker unit on token to denote this
            • structures can not be built here
            • Unless noted, region may not be affected
            • Defender units may leave, however double enemey count must remain
      • Recruit
        • Discard 1+ cards, add up recruit icons into points, spend points to add units into headquarters
      • Build/Activate structure
        • Discard 1+ cards, add up building icons into points, spend points to add/activate structures
          • You can build and activate in the same action
          • A building can only be activated once per action
          • Can’t build in HQ or a battle region (with a battle token)
          • Can’t have >1 of the same type in a region
          • Unless noted, can’t activate buildings in a battle region
          • If control of region lost, structure remains, but it can’t be activated
      • Draw 2 tactics cards (from deck or any terrain deck), keep 1
      • Enable Scoring
        • Once of your cards has this as an action
  • Battle Resolution
    • For each battle token in order:
      • add a crystal to the region
      • transfer the units to the battle objectives (attacker first)
      • play tactics cards (attacker first, one at a time, pass is final)
        • terrain tactics can only used if the region matches
      • resolve the objectives
        • region control
          • winner gets 2VP and places control token
            • unless non-player Trog, in which case place a Trog Nest token
          • Defender wins draws
        • capture prisoners
          • winner takes 1 prisoner (from any objective, even from attrition)
        • attrition
          • for each unit placed, kill one enemy unit (from any objective) – back to reserve
          • score 1VP per enemy killed
      • place surviving winners back into region
      • retreat with surviving losing units
        • into an adjacent, non-battle, region under retreating players control
        • unless non-player Trog, in which case place a Trog Nest token into an adjacent uncrontrolled region
        • this may trigger a trog token, reveal it and place a battle token
        • if there’s nowhere to retreat, they go to Reserve
      • remove battle token
  • Prisoners
    • Score 1VP for each prisoner you have
    • Buy back prisoners for 2VP per prisoner (no limit), back to Reserve
  • Scoring – if enabled
    • The player who enabled scoring gains 1VP per region they control
    • All players scores 1VP per crystal in regions they control
    • If a player passes an event token during scoring, bump it along to be ontop of the next token
• End of game
  • At the start of the 5th round the Event token is “Enable final scoring” – there is a Final Scoring token for this
  • Scoring can not be enabled by players in the 5th round

During Play

• During your turn skills can be used before/after your action
  • turn the card 90 degrees to indicate it is exhausted
• The Trogs are only controlled in a 4 player game
  • Trog tokens still spawn trogs and they’re available for use immediately
  • Trogs can move between regions with tunnels (prebuilt and structure token)
  • Losing a battle results in a normal player retreat, not trog exception
  • Trogs only score half total points (rounded up) for crystals in their control

Score Points From

• 2VP – winning battles
• 1VP – killing during battles
• 1VP per prisoner per round
• 1VP per controlled region per round if you activate scoring
• 1VP per crystal in a controlled region per round

Tips

• control regions, activate scoring, get points
• boost crystal count by triggering battles
• familiarise yourself with your skills and structures
• take tactics cards that match territory where you are likely to contest