Sacred Wars - Tactics Arena is a mythology inspired board game that fuses the deep strategy of tactics games with the thrill of countless unique game states offered by deck-building card games. The object of the game is to defeat your opponent by strategically building and utilizing your deck of cards consisting of Units, Items, and Spells. It can be played both in a physical square-tiled board (requiring 20-sided dice, tokens, tiles, and coins), or using our Companion app requiring only the cards and a mobile device. The Unit cards played are represented as Tokens on the field, the Spell cards affect the field represented as element Tiles, and the Item cards are stacked below the Unit cards modifying the Unit's stats/abilities

Required for each Player in Physical Form:
• A Deck of Unit, Item, and Spell cards, including a Command card that will represent the Player
• A Field on which to play
• 5 x Tokens to represent the Units on the field
• A set of Tiles for each of the 12 Elements
• A 20-sided die to enact battles and other game functions Recommended:
• Counters to keep track of Lifepoints, Coins and Unit's Stats Required using our Companion App:
• A Deck of Unit, Item, and Spell cards, including a Command card for each Player
• A single mobile device with our Companion App downloaded

There are four different Game Zones:
1) The Grave & Commander Zone (Left) - Dead Units go at the bottom of any cards in this Zone, and the Commander can be placed faced down on top
2) Units Zone (Middle) - Up to 5 Units allowed
3) Deck Zone (Right) - The Deck size should be equal to the amount of turns of the game
4) Battle Field Zone (Center) - Physical square tiled Board, or Companion App digital Board - Base: Located one position away from the Deploy Zone outside of the Field. If attacked, the Player loses Lifepoints equal to the Unit's Attack points - Deploy Zone: First row closest to the Player's Base - Sacred Tiles: Tiles on the field containing a Star and Number of Coins to be gained at the start of the turn Initial Configuration:
• Game Mode: Choose the victory condition - War Match, Death Match, Conquest, or Fate
• Income: Set Base Income amount of Coins received at the beginning of each turn
• Timer: Set the amount of time allowed per turn
• Turns: Set the max number of turns to end the game. (Fast game 5-10 mins, long game 45min-1hr)

The Game Mode will dictate the Victory Conditions:
• War Match: Reduce your opponent's Lifepoints to 0. If the match reaches the final turn, then the player with the most Lifepoints wins
• Death Match: Must outscore your opponent by having a higher total Kill Count by the end of the match, or conversely having less Units in your Grave
• Conquest: Must outscore your opponent by gathering the most Coins by the end of the match
• Fate: The Commander Unit must reach the opponents Deploy Zone

At the beginning of each turn the player gets Coin equal to the Base Income decided (1, 2, or 3 Coins Max). If the player has any Units on top of Sacred Tiles, they will also receive Coins equal to the Sacred Tile amount.

The Timer defines how long each turn will take. This sets the pace of the game.
• For a 10 min game: Set Timer to 60 for 10 Turns.
• For a 20 min game: Set Timer to 60 for 20 Turns.
• For a 30 min game: Set Timer to 60 for 30 Turns.

The number of turns defines the duration of the game and the number of cards for each Player's Deck. For many Game Modes the game is decided on the last turn.

Turn Phases: For all Game Modes the Phases of the turn are the following:
• Income Phase
• Draw Phase
• Deploy Phase
• Move Phase
• Action Phase: Rest, Battle, or Activate Item/Spell/Ability

Once a Unit initiates a Battle:
• Both Players have time to activate any effects or Quick Spells that can be applied.
• Both Players must declare they are ready to battle
• Both Players roll their Battle Die, then apply the results of their roll
• The Defending unit Rolls for a Dodge; if the result is equal or lower than their SPD, the attack is dodged and the battle is canceled.
• The Attacking unit Rolls for a Critical hit; if the result is equal or lower than their CRT, the attack is critical and the defending unit's DEF is reduced to 0.
• If both Players Roll the same number, both Players must re-roll their Battle Die.
• Once the results of the Battle Roll are applied, DMG is dealt and the battle is ended.

Each Player chooses 1 Command Card for their Deck, which can be a Human Lord or a Dragon Lord Unit. The back of the Command Cards list any Boons or special abilities.

A Player's Deck size should be equal to the amount of turns of a game.

Each Player can have up to 5 Units in the Units Zone in which to play cards, each Unit will be represented on the field as a token.
• Unit Cards: All unit cards can become a Token.
• Item Cards: Only Construct Item cards can become Tokens.
• Spell Cards: Only Summon Spell cards can become Tokens.

Each turn a Token can move 1 tile then perform 1 action. Actions include:
• Rest: A unit can do nothing
• Battle: Target another unit in Range and initiate a Battle
• Activate a Spell: A Unit can spend Energy to activate a Spell Card and apply its Effect
• Activate an Item: The Player can Spend Coin to apply an Item to a Unit
• Activate an Ability: A unit can activate an Effect that requires an Action

Each game of Sacred Wars can be played on different Fields and sizes, adding different enviroments in which to wage war.
• Small: 5x5
• Medium: 5x7
• Large: 5x9