5. Fights
Combat
What happens when your units move in on your opponent's
Move your units onto a battlefield where your opponent has units, and it's contested with both of you there. That starts a combat. You're the , as you moved in, and your opponent is the . Your units there are attackers too, and theirs are defenders.
How a combat goes
- A showdown first. It works like any other, and you get focus, as the attacker. Both of you can play Actions and Reactions, to make your units stronger or get rid of the other side's.
- Then damage, if both sides still have units there. Each side adds up the Might of its units, and deals that much damage to the other side's units. Both sides' damage lands at the same moment.
- Then the units with enough damage die, and whoever has units left wins.
Splitting the damage
You choose how your damage is split among the defenders, and your opponent splits theirs among your attackers. There's one rule: you must give a unit enough damage to kill it before you give any to the next. Damage equal to a unit's Might is enough, and that much is called .
So you can't spread damage thinly to wound everyone. You kill units one at a time, and only the last one you give damage to can be left wounded. Leftover damage, once every unit has lethal damage, goes wherever you like.
Who wins
- Only the attacker has units left: you conquer the battlefield.
- Only the defender has units left: they keep it.
- Both have units left: your attackers go back to your base, and the defender keeps it.
- Nobody has units left: the battlefield is nobody's.
You move (4) and a (1) onto your opponent's battlefield, where their (3) is. In the showdown, you both pass focus. Then the damage:
- Yours is 4 + 1 = 5. The is the only defender, so it gets all 5. Its lethal damage is 3, so it dies.
- Theirs is 3. The needs 1 to die, and the needs 4. Your opponent puts 1 on the , then the last 2 on the . The dies, and the lives.
Your is the only unit left, so you conquer the battlefield.