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Ready yourself and a friend for a battle between two rival villages. In this game each player has control over their own small army of unit cards, attacking their opponent’s village while reinforcing their own village.

Each round, ten action dice are rolled together in a single dice pool from which the players take turns drafting five dice.

These dice are then used to activate army unit cards that will contest two rival villages, and the winner at each village will score one point.

The first player to score
5 points wins the game!

While both players start with the same 8 cards you can recruit a lot of different mythical and fantastical units to strengthen your army. Additionally, you can bolster your chances of winning by enlisting shrewd tactical advisors or by acquiring buildings that can change your overall strategy.

Gameplay

I. Rally Phase

• Both players draw three cards from their Army Deck.

II. Strategy Phase

• All dice are rolled together into a single Dice pool.
• Starting with the player that has the initiative, players pick a die from the Dice pool until each player has five dice in front of them.

III. Tactical Phase

Activate dice in the following order…

1. Boot
2. Sword
3. Shield
4. Bow
5. Horse
6. Mystic

…to perform one of the following two actions A or B:

1. Play a Unit from your Hand.
2. Draw a card from either the Unit Pile, the Building Pile or the Advisor Pile with the option to switch the card for one of the cards, of the same type, in the Reserve Tableau.

IV. Building Phase

Each player may play one Building from their hand face down on the tableto indicate that it is being built at their Village.

V. Battle Phase

1. Resolve all actions between units.
2. Resolve units contesting villages by counting unit banners and award a Score Cube to the winner of each village.
3. If the attacking player has more banners and the defending player is building a building, that card goes into the attacking player’s hand.

VI. End of Round

If one of the players has five score cubes, they win the game.

If there is no single winner, the game continues:

• Buildings that are being built are put into play unless there is a Stalemate.
• The Initiative Token is passed to the other player.