Kingdom Combat – Beginner’s Rule Guide

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🎯 Goal of the Game

Each player builds up a kingdom, recruits units, and fights to destroy other players’ fortresses. Last fortress standing wins.

 

🃏 What You Need

• A deck of at least 30 cards.

• A fortress with Starting Garrison picked out.

Each player uses cards from 1 or 2 factions (like Imperials and/or Necronians)

 

💡 Card Types

There are a few kinds of cards you’ll use:

🔹 Action Cards

Used to impact the game during turns:

• Dirty Tricks – surprise plays you can use anytime.

• Events – big effects you play on your turn.

• Abilities & Equipment – give extra powers to your units. 

🔹 Units

These are your fighters:

• They have Attack, Defense, and Armor stats.

• They go into play exhausted (can’t act until next turn) and protect your kingdom or attack enemies. 

 

⚔️ Playing the Game

Each turn is split into phases:

🔹 Start of Your Turn

1. Activate all cards – units become ready again.

2. Gain gold from your structures.

3. Draw a card. 

🔹 Before Combat

You can play cards from your hand or move your units around.

⚔️ Combat Phase

1. Choose which units will attack and who they target.

2. Opponent chooses defenders or retreat units back if they can.

3. Units deal damage at the same time.

   • If a unit takes damage equal to its armor, it loses 1 HP.

   • Units reduced to 0 HP are destroyed. 

 

🛡️ Important Rules

💥 Attacking

• Units can attack enemies up to 1 zone away unless they are mounted (then they move differently). 

🏰 Defending Structures

• If a unit defends a structure, damage first goes to the defending unit.

• Any extra damage goes to the structure.
  Structures with 0 HP are destroyed. 

 

📦 Winning the Game

You win when all other players’ fortresses are destroyed.

 

🧠 Tips for New Players

✨ Make sure your deck has a good balance of:

• Units (to attack and defend)

• Structures (to generate gold so you can play cards)

• Action cards for extra effects. 

✨ Use gold wisely — leftover gold doesn’t carry over to the next turn.

✨ Units attack stronger if you plan ahead — don’t rush all attacks at once.

 

🎉 Final Note

Kingdom Combat is meant to be fun and flexible — feel free to create your own effects and house rules once you know the basics!