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A Sci-Fi Tactical RPG Board Game

The Gifts of Yergin Game Components

Lavender Player's components shown above

Supply Deck x2
- Contains 36 Card Action cards
The The Gifts of Yergin Rule Booklet
Four Unit cards x2
Set of two dice x2
Four Wall Token pieces x2
Four Unit pieces x2
Game Board ^{(Not Pictured)}

"x2" = one Crimson & one Lavender

○ How to Play ○

Choose Sides

Between both players, choose who will play as the Crimson side, and who will play as the Lavender .

If there's trouble deciding who plays who, then one player should flip a coin, if they get heads then they play as the Crimson side and as the Lavender side if they get tails.

After sides have been taken both players collect the game components corresponding to the side they've taken as well as Four Wall Tokens each.

(i.e. Crimson Player gets the Crimson Supply Deck, Dice, Unit Pieces, ETC… & the Lavender Player: the Lavender Supply Deck,Unit Cards, ETC…)

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Setup

Putting things together

Set The Game Board between the two of you so that the black border forms a square round the game board and the Start Spaces face their corresponding player.

Both players thoroughly shuffle their decks down to the left or right side of their end of the Game Board. Players should be sure to leave enough space for the Scrap Deck next to the supply deck on the side facing away from the board.

(*you could also ask someone else to shuffle the deck for you)

When all put together your setup should resemble something like .

Final Steps

Once the previous steps have been completed both players must:

Place their Unit Pieces on the Start spaces corresponding to their side
(i.e. Crimson Units on Crimson Start spaces & the Lavender Units on Lavender Start spaces)
Which Start space each Unit goes on is up to each player's strategy or lack thereof.
Roll their dice to determine turn order, highest goes first.
Draw 6 Cards from their Supply Decks.

You can now start the game.

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Playing The Game

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Your Turn

During Your turn there are two actions you can do: Unit Actions and Scrapping Cards.

Unit Actions

Per turn, each of your units can take 1 Card Action and 1 Movement Action.
These can be done in any order, but once a unit has taken both actions, they cannot take another that turn.

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Oppenent's Turn

Rule Booklet

○ The Decks ○

Supply, Scrap and Attrition

Game Board

○This Section is Unfinished○

○ Card Action Cards ○

The Supply Deck

Card Actions are one of the two actions a unit can take during a player’s turn (the other being movement actions).

As the name suggests, Card Actions require Card Actions Cards in order to be performed.

Each player has a Supply Deck comprised of 36 Card Action Cards:

20 Attack Cards
04 Move! Cards
04 Build Cards
08 Special Action Cards^{( 2 of each )}

After use, Card Action cards other than the Build cards are placed face up in the Scrap Deck.

Build cards are instead discarded from play.

Normal Card Action Cards

The Attack Card, on The top right there is a white outline of a white explosion, looking like a ten point star.
opposite the explosion, on the top left of the image is the word 'Attack'. below the word 'Attack' and the explosion is a white square. below that white square is some text,
It Reads: Deal 1 point of damage to a unit within attack range
The Healer can also use this card action to heal a unit within his attack range for 1 HP — *The Attack Card*

The Move Card, on The top right there is a white stick figure of a person running to the right.
opposite the figure, on the top left of the image is the word 'Move!'. below the word 'Move' and the stick figure is a white square. below that white square is some text,
It Reads: This card can be used as a Card Action or as a Countor when attacked.
As Card Action: Uses a unit's card action to move an additional time this turn
As Counter: Both players roll their dice. 'If you roll equal to, or greater than the attacking player, avoid taking damage & move 1 space away from the attacker — *The Move! Card*

The Build Card, on The top right there is an image of a simple brick wall, made up of crooked white bricks.
opposite the brick wall, on the top left of the image is the word 'Build'. below the word 'Build' and the wall is a white square. below that white square is some text,
It Reads: Allows a unit to build a wall on the space in which they stand. The wall acts as the wall terrain & can face any orthogonal direction.
After use, this card is removed from play. — *The Build Card*

Special Card Action Cards

The Jump Card, on The top right there is a white circle containing a red shoe with a wing design on the heel.
opposite the circle on the top left of the image is the word 'Jump!'. below the word 'jump' and the circle is a white square. below that white square is some text,
It Reads: When The Acrobat soars in the air, it feels as if time slows down.In these brief moments of calm, she thinks of home. The Acrobat imbues her legs with the Gifts of Yergin, allowing her to Leap over any obstacle.(Terrain/Units). allows other units to cross water during their movement action. — *The Jump Card*

The Longshot Card, on The top right there is a white circle containing a complicated crosshair.
opposite the circle on the top left of the image is the word 'Longshot'. below the word 'Longshot' and the circle is a white square. below that white square is some text,
It Reads: Long ago when The Sniper was young, he found Longshot immensely satisfying. This changed soon after deployment. Imbuing His Gun With the Gifts of Yergin,
The Sniper readies a shot capable of travelling the entire battlefield. If used by other units Attack Range Min-Max +1 for 1 turn — *The Longshot Card*

The Demolish Card, on The top right there is a white circle containing an image of a sword cutting a red circle in twain.
opposite the circle, on the top left of the image is the word 'Demolish'. below the word 'Demolish' and the circle is a white square. below that white square is some text,
It Reads: As it is a precious gift from those she holds dear, The Swordsmaster uses the Gifts of Yergin to reinforce her sword, relying on her own strength to take down walls.
The Swordsmaster imbues her blade with the Power of Yergin allowing her to demolish
any wall that may stand in her way.
This works only on wall tokens.
Units sharing the same space as the demolished wall take 1 point of Damage. — *The Demolish Card*

The Panacea Card, on The top right there is a white circle containing an image of a lotus flower, the centre petals are red and have yet to open.
opposite the circle on the top left of the image is the word 'Panacea'. below the word 'Panacea' and the circle is a white square. below that white square is some text,
It Reads:The Healer spread a medicial mist of his own creation, using the Power of Yergin to
increase it's potency. Heals all units within range including self
for 2 HP. {This Includes Enemy Units}. If Used By other units, +1 HP Self Heal — *The Panacea Card*

The "Anatomy" of a Card Action Card's front

Card Back
(Crimson Player)

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Normal Card Actions

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The Attack Card

The Attack card can be used as a unit's card action to deal one point of damage to an unobstructed unit within the attack range of the attacking unit.

Alternatively, the Attack card can also be used by Healer unit to heal a unit within his attack range

You cannot attack diagonally.

The Attack Card

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The Move! Card

The Move! card has two functions and is the only card that can be played on an opponent’s turn.

When used as a unit’s Card Action, it gives that unit an additional
Movement Action that turn.

When one of your units is being attacked during your opponent’s turn The Move! card can be used as a counter: giving you a chance to avoid the attack.

You and your opponent both roll two dice if your roll is equal to or greater than the roll of your opponent: Your unit avoids taking damage and moves one space away from the attacking unit.

Development

Early in Development, instead of the Move! Card there were the two Move! cards. They were the only way to move your units and there were 20 of them in the deck, 12 Move! 1 cards and 8 Move! 2 cards.

How far a unit moved was based on which one of the Move! cards you used (1 square for Move! 1 & 2 for Move! 2), meaning that all Units moved at the same rate at the time.The one exception was the Acrobat unit, who's unique trait at the time was a "+1 on Move Cards".

Upon the first playtests, this was found to make the game quite slow and not very fun.

The Move! 1 & Move! 2 Cards

Following this revelation, it was decided to overhaul the game's movement mechanics. And so, moving your units was separated from card actions and made its own action, the Move! card's function was changed to what it is now and reduced from 20 to 4 per deck.

In addition, each of the Units in the game were given a unique movement range, and the Acrobat was given a different unique trait.

Lonelier & less numeric!
It’s the Move! Card v2.

The Move! Card

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The Build Card & Wall Tokens

The Build card can be used as a unit's card action to build a wall on the space they're standing on. This translates to the player placing a Wall Token under the unit in one of four cardinal directions (in relation to the game board, not the actual planet)

After use the Build card is removed from play as each player has a finite number of Wall Tokens and cannot replenish their supply

Wall Tokens

Wall Tokens act nearly identically to the Wall Terrain that can be found on the game board, preventing Units from moving or attacking through it. Another similarity Wall Tokens have to Wall Terrain, is that they can be jumped over by the Actrobat Unit, using her Jump! Special Card Action.

A Wall Token

The Build Card

Unlike the Wall Terrain, Wall Tokens can be destroyed by the Swordsmaster Unit, using her Demolish Special Card Action. Destroyed Wall Tokens cannot be recovered and are removed from play.

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Special Card Actions

The Special Card Actions are unique Card Actions that each belong to one of the four units.

To take a Special Card Action you must play a Special Card Action Card as the Card Action of the unit associated with that card

Special Card Action Cards also have a Secondary Card Action they do instead of their Special Card Action when used by units other than the one the card belongs to.

These Secondary Card Actions are less powerful than the Special Card Action they accompany but are still useful actions that might even be a better choice than using the Special Card Action of the card in some situations.

Development

At first, the Special Card Action Cards didn't have their Secondary Card Actions.

It was suggested by a colleague that giving the Special Card Action Cards secondary functions usable by other units would make it so that the cards wouldn't become useless if their associated unit died. That way players wouldn't feel like those cards are taking up space in those situations.

This was found to be an excellent suggestion and upon implementation, was found to indeed prevent the Special Card Action Cards from feeling like a waste of a card in one's hand, increased the number of options a player has in a turn and improved the pace of the game.

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The Jump! Card

The Jump! Card is the Special Card Action Card belonging to the Acrobat Unit. When used as the Acrobat's Card Action it allows her to leap over any obstacle such as walls or other units.

When used as the Card Action of any other unit it allows that unit to pass through tiles containing the water terrain during their movement action.
This does not carry over to that unit's next turn, so using it after that unit's movement action is inadvisable.

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The Longshot Card

The Jump! Card

The Longshot Card is the Special Card Action Card belonging to the Sniper Unit. When used as the Sniper Card Action it increases his attack range to reach across the entire game board and acts as Attack card. This range increase lasts only for this Card Action.

When used as the Card Action of any other unit it increases that unit's minimum and maximum attack range by 1 for that Card Action and acts as an Attack Card.

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The Demolish Card

The Jump! Card is the Special Card Action Card belonging to the Swordsmaster Unit . When used as the Swordsmaster's Card Action it allows her to destroy wall tokens, any unit standing on the same space as the demolished wall token takes One point of damage

When used as the Card Action of any other unit it acts at an Attack Card

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The Panacea Card

The Demolish Card

The Panacea Card is the Special Card Action Card belonging to the Healer. When used as the Healer's Card Action it heals all units within The Healer's Attack range, including enemy units for Two HP.