RULES REFERENCE SHEET FOR
SKIRMISH 1VS1
ABOUT THIS SHEET
Since there are so many game modes in Edge Dawnfall this document will
guide you through a setup depending on whichever game mode you select.
The Stretch Book has you looking at 3 or 4 places to fit together how a
game mode is played and this guide summaries them one by one.
SKIRMISH 1 VS 1
SETUP
1 – BOARD
Set up a standard board depicted on the right.
2 – DICE
Place the dice so that they are easily accessible to both players.
3 – NEUTRAL CRYSTAL AND CHARGES PILE
Place 20 Crystals, and 20 Charge tokens next to map.
4 – DETERMINE FIRST PLAYER
Roll a Red Die – whoever rolls higher becomes
the First Player and receives the My Turn token.
5 – CHOOSE FACTION
The First Player picks a faction, and then the second player takes one of
the factions. Each player collects all elements of their faction: their
Squad deck, the Action deck, 1 Banner card, 1 Help card, 1 Shrine token,
1 Faction Sheet, all faction-specific tokens, and finally – all their models.
Players place these elements on their side of the table.
6 – PLANT YOUR BANNERS
Each player places their Banner card on the Banner slot found on their
side of the board.
7 – CHOOSE SQUADS
select any 5 of your Squad cards and place them in the Squad slots on
your side of the board. Basic Mode should be face up. Faction leader
does not have to be included. Place models on their corresponding Squad
Cards.
8 – DISTRIBUTE ENDURANCE TOKENS
On each Squad card, place a number of Endurance tokens equal to the
value indicated by the grey shield icon on the card.
9 – PREPARE ACTION DECKS
Each player now builds their Action deck by choosing 25 Action cards.
Only cards for units that was previously selected Step 7 are allowed
in the action deck. All players shuffle their decks and place it on the board
setting aside all not used cards.
10 – CHOOSE THE POSITIONING/COUNTERING PLAYER
First player decides to be positioning(initiates all deployment steps) or
countering player (takes first turn). Pass My Turn token to
countering player
Standard Game Board
11 – PLACE SHRINES
Starting with the positioning player, each player
places their shrine on the board. The Shrines
have to be placed at least 2 Spaces from each
other. Each shrine also has to fit within a
single Space.
12 – PLACE CRYSTAL SOURCES
Setup 4 crystal tokens by having players taking
turns setting up 1 Crystal Source each, starting
with the Positioning player. The Crystal Source
may be placed on any empty Space of the map,
as long as it’s at least 2 spaces away from any
Shrines or other Crystal Sources. Each
Crystal Source must always fit inside a
single Space.
13 – DEPLOY MODELS
Players take turns setting up one of their Squads, starting with the
Positioning player (placing all models of the chosen Squad on the map).
Models can be places on any empty hex with the following conditions.
The entire base of each model has to fit inside a single Space
A model can’t be placed in Base to Base contact with any Shrine,
Crystal Source or enemy model.
If the Squad had more than 1 model, the subsequent models have to be placed
Base to Base ( ) contact with at least ONE model from the same Squad.
Models from the same squad does not have to be in the same space.
14 – PLACE VICTORY MARKERS AND FACTION TOKENS
Place a Victory Marker right in the middle of the
Victory Points track (on the red space). Now,
each player places their Faction token on the final,
blue space of the track. Victory marker
15 – PREPARE CRYSTAL POOLS
Each player takes 2 Crystals from the neutral pile (see Step 3) and
places them in their Crystal Pools.
16 – DRAW THE STARTING HANDS
Each player draws 3 cards from the top of their Action decks.
17 – DISPERSAL
The Positioning player may now Move one of their Squads
18 – FIRST TURN
The Countering player starts the match, takes a full turn and passes the
My Turn token. Players will alternate taking full turns until the end of
the game.

ABOUT THIS SHEET
Since there are so many game modes in Edge Dawnfall this document will
guide you through a setup depending on whichever game mode you select.
The Stretch Book has you looking at 3 or 4 places to fit together how a
game mode is played and this guide summaries them one by one.
MULTIPLAYER - FREE FOR ALL
SETUP
1 – BOARD
Use two standard battle maps, joined at the marked edges.
2 – DICE
Place the dice so that they are easily accessible to all players.
3 – NEUTRAL CRYSTAL AND CHARGES PILE
- 3 players: 30 Crystals and 30 Charge tokens
- 4 players: 40 Crystals and 40 Charge tokens
4 – DETERMINE FIRST PLAYER
Roll a Red Die – whoever rolls higher becomes
the First Player and receives the My Turn token.
Players take turn in clockwise order.
5 – CHOOSE FACTION
The First Player picks a faction, and then the second player takes one of
the factions and so on. Each player collects all elements of their
faction: their Squad deck, the Action deck, 1 Banner card, 1 Help card,
1 Shrine token, 1 Faction Sheet, all faction-specific tokens, and
finally – all their models.
Players place these elements on their side of the table.
6 – PLANT YOUR BANNERS
Each player places their Banner card on the Banner slot found on their
side of the board.
7 – CHOOSE SQUADS
Select any 4 of your Squad cards and place them in the Squad slots on
your side of the board. Basic Mode should be face up. Faction leader
does not have to be included. Place models on their corresponding Squad
Cards.
8 – DISTRIBUTE ENDURANCE TOKENS
On each Squad card, place a number of Endurance tokens equal to the
value indicated by the grey shield icon on the card.
9 – PREPARE ACTION DECKS
Each player now builds their Action deck by choosing 15 Action cards.
Only cards for units that was previously selected Step 7 are allowed
in the action deck. All players shuffle their decks and place it on the board
setting aside all not used cards.
10 – CHOOSE THE POSITIONING/COUNTERING PLAYER
First player decides to be positioning(initiates all deployment steps) or
countering player (takes first turn). Only one player is
the countering player. the rest is positioning players.
Pass My Turn token to countering player. When first
positioning player is refered to in later steps this means the
player after the countering player in clockwise order.
RULES REFERENCE SHEET FOR
MULTIPLAYER - FREE FOR ALL
Standard Game Board
11 – PLACE SHRINES
Starting with the first positioning player,
each player places their
shrine on the board. The Shrines have to be
placed at least 2 Spaces from each
other. Each shrine also has to fit within a
single Space.
12 – PLACE CRYSTAL SOURCES
Setup 4 crystal tokens by having players taking
turns setting up 1 Crystal Source each, starting
with the first positioning The Crystal Source
may be placed on any empty Space of the map,
as long as it’s at least 2 spaces away from any
Shrines or other Crystal Sources. Each
Crystal Source must always fit inside a
single Space.
13 – DEPLOY MODELS
Players take turns setting up one of their Squads, starting with the
Positioning player (placing all models of the chosen Squad on the map).
Models can be places on any empty hex with the following conditions.
The entire base of each model has to fit inside a single Space
A model can’t be placed in Base to Base contact with any Shrine,
Crystal Source or enemy model.
If the Squad had more than 1 model, the subsequent models have to be placed
Base to Base ( ) contact with at least ONE model from the same Squad.
Models from the same squad does not have to be in the same space.
14 – PLACE VICTORY MARKERS AND FACTION TOKENS
Each player gathers 10 of their faction’s Victory Point tokens. This is the
Starting Victory Points tokens pile of each player.
15 – PREPARE CRYSTAL POOLS
Each player takes the number of Crystals equal to the total number of
players in this match and places them in the starting Crystal Pool.
16 – DRAW THE STARTING HANDS
Each player draws 3 cards from the top of their Action decks.
17 – DISPERSAL
All Positioning players (one after the other) Move 1 of their Squads.
18 – FIRST TURN
The Countering player starts the match, takes a full turn and passes the
My Turn token. Players will alternate taking full turns until the end of
the game.

ABOUT THIS SHEET
Since there are so many game modes in Edge Dawnfall this document will
guide you through a setup depending on whichever game mode you select.
The Stretch Book has you looking at 3 or 4 places to fit together how a
game mode is played and this guide summaries them one by one.
TEAM VS TEAM is a mode for 4 players, where two 2-player teams face off
against each other.
MULTIPLAYER - TEAM VS TEAM
SETUP
1 – BOARD
Use two standard battle maps, joined at the marked edges.
2 – DICE
Place the dice so that they are easily accessible to all players.
3 – NEUTRAL CRYSTAL AND CHARGES PILE
Place 40 Crystals and 40 Charge tokens in the neutral pile.
4 – DETERMINE FIRST PLAYER
The players divide themselves into two teams, anyway they wish. T
They will take turns clockwise, starting from the First Player.
The players should relocate around the table so that the clockwise order
keeps alternating between both teams (A->B->A->B). Each player takes
Faction token of their ally to remember who is his ally during this game.
5 – CHOOSE FACTION
The First Player picks a faction, and then the second player takes one of
the factions and so on. Each player collects all elements of their
faction: their Squad deck, the Action deck, 1 Banner card, 1 Help card,
1 Shrine token, 1 Faction Sheet, all faction-specific tokens, and
finally – all their models.
Players place these elements on their side of the table.
6 – PLANT YOUR BANNERS
Each player places their Banner card on the Banner slot found on their
side of the board.
7 – CHOOSE SQUADS
Select any 4 of your Squad cards and place them in the Squad slots on
your side of the board. Basic Mode should be face up. Faction leader
does not have to be included. Place models on their corresponding Squad
Cards.
8 – DISTRIBUTE ENDURANCE TOKENS
On each Squad card, place a number of Endurance tokens equal to the
value indicated by the grey shield icon on the card.
9 – PREPARE ACTION DECKS
Each player now builds their Action deck by choosing 15 Action cards.
Only cards for units that was previously selected Step 7 are allowed
in the action deck. All players shuffle their decks and place it on the board
setting aside all not used cards.
10 – CHOOSE THE POSITIONING/COUNTERING PLAYER
First player decides to be positioning(initiates all deployment steps) or
countering player (takes first turn). Only one player is
the countering player. the rest is positioning players.
Pass My Turn token to countering player. When first
positioning player is reffered to in later steps this means the
player after the countering player in clockwise order.
RULES REFERENCE SHEET FOR
MULTIPLAYER - TEAM VS TEAM
Standard Game Board
11 – PLACE SHRINES
Starting with the first positioning player,
each player places their
shrine on the board. The Shrines have to be
placed at least 2 Spaces from each
other. Each shrine also has to fit within a
single Space.
12 – PLACE CRYSTAL SOURCES
Setup 4 crystal tokens by having players taking
turns setting up 1 Crystal Source each, starting
with the first positioning The Crystal Source
may be placed on any empty Space of the map,
as long as it’s at least 2 spaces away from any
Shrines or other Crystal Sources. Each
Crystal Source must always fit inside a
single Space.
13 – DEPLOY MODELS
Players take turns setting up one of their Squads, starting with the
Positioning player (placing all models of the chosen Squad on the map).
Models can be places on any empty hex with the following conditions.
The entire base of each model has to fit inside a single Space
A model can’t be placed in Base to Base contact with any Shrine,
Crystal Source or enemy model.
If the Squad had more than 1 model, the subsequent models have to be placed
Base to Base ( ) contact with at least ONE model from the same Squad.
Models from the same squad does not have to be in the same space.
14 – PLACE VICTORY MARKERS AND FACTION TOKENS
Each player gathers 10 of their faction’s Victory Point tokens. This is the
Starting Victory Points tokens pile of each player.
15 – PREPARE CRYSTAL POOLS
Each player takes the number of Crystals equal to the total number of
players in this match and places them in the starting Crystal Pool.
16 – DRAW THE STARTING HANDS
Each player draws 3 cards from the top of their Action decks.
17 – DISPERSAL
All Positioning players (one after the other) Move 1 of their Squads.
18 – FIRST TURN
The Countering player starts the match, takes a full turn and passes the
My Turn token. Players will alternate taking full turns until the end of
the game.

SOLO DARKNESS SKIRMISH
This sheet describes the battle against Darkness in a solo skirmish game.
SETUP
1 – BOARD
You can select either side; regular or the "darkness" side. Preferably
sit by the long side of the board to be able to reach all components.
2 – DICE
Place the dice wherever you want.
3 – NEUTRAL CRYSTAL AND CHARGES PILE
Place 20 Crystals, and 20 Charge tokens next to map.
4 – DETERMINE FIRST PLAYER
Darkness begins.
5 – CHOOSE FACTION
Pick any faction to face of against the Darkness. Collect all elements of
the selected faction: their Squad deck, the Action deck, 1 Banner card,
1 Help card, 1 Shrine token, 1 Faction Sheet, all faction-specific tokens,
and finally – all their models.
6 – PLANT YOUR BANNERS
Place your Banner card on the Banner slot. The Darkness has no banner.
7 – CHOOSE SQUADS
Select any 5 of your Squad cards and place them in the Squad slots on
your side of the board. Basic Mode should be face up. Faction leader
does not have to be included. Place models on their corresponding Squad
Cards. Select any 5 Squads from the Darkness with the corresponding
cards as well as setting them to Basic Mode.
8 – DISTRIBUTE ENDURANCE TOKENS
On each Squad card, place a number of Endurance tokens equal to the
value indicated by the grey shield icon on the card.
9 – PREPARE ACTION DECKS
Chose 25 Action cards. Only cards for units that was previously selected
Step 7 are allowed in the action deck. Shuffle your their deck and place
it on the board setting aside all not used cards.
Then, take all Darkness Action cards of the chosen Squads (and the All
Hell Breaks Loose cards) and shuffle them. Shuffle the 5 Darkness
Difficulty Level cards separately. Then create Darkness Action deck
following the steps below:
- 6 Darkness Action cards (top of the deck)
- 2 Darkness Difficulty Level cards
- 6 Darkness Action cards
- 2 Darkness Difficulty Level cards
- 6 Darkness Action cards (bottom of the deck)
10 – CHOOSE THE POSITIONING/COUNTERING PLAYER
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11 – PLACE SHRINES
Start by deploying Darkness Shrine (Shadow Gate)
to the middle of the board.
Then place your faction shrine. The Shrines
have to be placed at least 2 Spaces from each
other. Each shrine also has to fit within a
single Space.
12 – PLACE CRYSTAL SOURCES
Setup 4 Crystal Source tokens. The Crystal Source
may be placed on any empty Space of the map,
as long as it’s at least 2 spaces away from any
Shrines or other Crystal Sources. Each
Crystal Source must always fit inside a
single Space.
Also each Crystal Source token has to be
placed exactly one Space away from
the Shadow Gate (no more and no less).
13 – DEPLOY MODELS
Begin with deploying any 3 Darkness models anywhere with
Shadow gate. Then player sets up all their squads by placing all
it's models on the map.
Models can be places on any empty hex with the following conditions.
The entire base of each model has to fit inside a single Space
A model can’t be placed in Base to Base contact with any Shrine,
Crystal Source or enemy model.
If the Squad had more than 1 model, the subsequent models have to be placed
Base to Base ( ) contact with at least ONE model from the same Squad.
Models from the same squad does not have to be in the same space.
14 – PLACE VICTORY MARKERS AND FACTION TOKENS
Place a Victory Marker right in the middle of the
Victory Points track (on the red space). Then place your Faction token on
one end of the track and any other Faction token on the other side which
represents the Darkness faction.
15 – PREPARE CRYSTAL POOLS Victory marker
Take 2 Crystals from the neutral pile (see Step 3) and place them in your
Crystal Pool. Place 3 Dark Points ( ) in Darkness pool. Do not add 2
Crystals to Darkness pool – Darkness faction does not use Crystals.
16 – DRAW THE STARTING HANDS
Draws 3 cards from the top of their Action decks.
17 – DISPERSAL
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18 – FIRST TURN
The Darkness takes the first turn

ABOUT THIS SHEET
Since there are so many game modes in Edge Dawnfall this document will
guide you through a setup depending on whichever game mode you select.
The Stretch Book has you looking at 3 or 4 places to fit together how a
game mode is played and this guide summaries them one by one.
This sheet describes the battle against Darkness and the solo rules for that.
SOLO DARKNESS CAMPAIGN
SETUP
1 – BOARD
You can select either side; regular or the "darkness" side. Preferably
sit by the long side of the board to be able to reach all components.
Note: Usually the specific scenario will indicate which board to use.
Also see Battle map Selection Info later in this document.
2 – DICE
Place the dice wherever you want.
3 – NEUTRAL CRYSTAL AND CHARGES PILE
Place 20 Crystals, and 20 Charge tokens next to map.
4 – DETERMINE FIRST PLAYER
Darkness begins.
5 – CHOOSE FACTION
Pick any faction to face of against the Darkness. Collect all elements of
the selected faction: their Squad deck, the Action deck, 1 Banner card,
1 Help card, 1 Shrine token, 1 Faction Sheet, all faction-specific tokens,
and finally – all their models.
6 – PLANT YOUR BANNERS
Place your Banner card on the Banner slot. The Darkness has no banner.
7 – CHOOSE SQUADS
Unlike in standard games, players start these campaigns with a
pre-determined force. The details can be found in introductions to specific
campaigns. Additionally, the standard rule that restricts your deck to
cards of Squads present in your army is lifted. Your deck carries over
between the battles, and sometimes it may contain cards that don’t refer
to any Squad present in a particular engagement. Please remember that
in this case the Top Action of the card is still available and may be used
by any Squad! Unlike in standard games, campaign battles do not end
when human players run out of Action cards. If that happens, simply
shuffle all your discarded cards and use them as your new deck.
8 – DISTRIBUTE ENDURANCE TOKENS
Unless otherwise noted, on each Squad card, place a number of
Endurance tokens equal to the value indicated by the grey
shield icon on the card.
9 – PREPARE ACTION DECKS
The specific campaign/scenario will guide you in creating deck for you
selected faction as well as the darkness forces.
10 – CHOOSE THE POSITIONING/COUNTERING PLAYER
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11 – PLACE SHRINES
Unless otherwise noted start by deploying
Darkness Shrine (Shadow Gate) to the middle
of the board. Then place your faction shrine.
The Shrines have to be placed at least 2 Spaces
from each other. Each shrine also has to fit within a
single Space.
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12 –DARKNESSQUADANDSQUADCARDS PLACE CRYSTAL SOURCES
Setup 4 Crystal Source tokens. The Crystal Source
may be placed on any empty Space of the map,
as long as it’s at least 2 spaces away from any
Shrines or other Crystal Sources. Each
Crystal Source must always fit inside a
single Space.
Also each Crystal Source token has to be
placed exactly one Space away from
the Shadow Gate (no more and no less).
Note: This step is usually somehow changed by
specific scenario rules.
13 – DEPLOY MODELS
Begin with deploying any 3 Darkness models anywhere with
Shadow gate. Then player sets up all their squads by placing all
it's models on the map.
Models can be places on any empty hex with the following conditions.
The entire base of each model has to fit inside a single Space
A model can’t be placed in Base to Base contact with any Shrine,
Crystal Source or enemy model.
If the Squad had more than 1 model, the subsequent models have to be
placed Base to Base ( ) contact with at least ONE model from the
same Squad.
Models from the same squad does not have to be in the same space.
14 – PLACE VICTORY MARKERS AND FACTION TOKENS
Place a Victory Marker right in the middle of the
Victory Points track (on the red space). Then place your Faction token on
one end of the track and any other Faction token on the other side which
represents the Darkness faction.
15 – PREPARE CRYSTAL POOLS
Take 2 Crystals from the neutral pile (see Step 3) and place them in your
Crystal Pool. Place 3 Dark Points ( ) in Darkness pool. Do not add 2
Crystals to Darkness pool – Darkness faction does not use Crystals.
16 – DRAW THE STARTING HANDS Victory marker
You draw 3 cards from the top of their Action decks.
17 – DISPERSAL
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18 – FIRST TURN
The Darkness takes the first turn unless otherwise specified
BATTLE MAP SELECTION INFO
Some battles also use an alternative, Darkness-themed battlefield layout, printed
on the back of the standard battle map. It has less available Spaces and more
impassable obstacles. Please keep in mind that these obstacles DO NOT count as
the edge of the map – only Spaces on the true border of the map do.
In the middle of this darkness-themed map is the Red Zone – a cluster of
four Spaces that’s sometimes referenced in the setup rules of scenarios (see the
diagram below).
If there is a break (missing Space) between two Spaces, this break cannot be
crossed by Move Action and Line Of Fire cannot be drawn through it.

TIME TRACK
Many battles of these campaigns use the Time Track instead of (or in addition to)
the Victory Points track. Time Track usually shows the end of the battle and
all special events that happen during the encounter. Before a scenario begins,
place a Time Marker on slot 1 of the track, and then set up any Event Markers
listed in the scenario on their corresponding slots. They will help you
remember when the next event triggers.
You move the time track after your turn.
Any Actions that grant a specific player extra turns (such as the Time Jump)
do not move the Time Track!
SPECIFIC CAMPAIGN RULES
Use these two reference pages and select the campaign you wish to play.
You then have to follow those campaign specific rules as well as specific
scenario rules. They override the rules stated here but you need not to look
in more places.
FLOW OF THE GAME
DARKNESS TURN
During each Darkness turn draw and resolve (respectively)
2 Darkness Action cards. Discard the cards after they’ve been resolved. If
you draw 2 Darkness Difficulty Level cards in one turn, choose and resolve
only 1 of them, discarding the other. Do not draw and resolve any additional
Darkness Action cards this turn.
PLAYER'S TURN
At the end of each of their Passive turns, flip all Darkness
Squad cards to their Basic mode.
PAYING WITH OTHER RESOURCES
Darkness faction can never use other
resources (Victory Points or Endurance tokens) as a substitute to Dark
Points ( ) when paying any costs.
DICE
Darkness faction ignores special rule of Marked sides of dice
during their rolls.
END OF THE GAME
„One of the players loses all of their models” condition does not apply
to Darkness faction.
DARKNES SQUAD AND SQUAD CARDS
Darkness Squad cards also specify which die (Yellow or Red) is used for all
rolls of a given model. As shown on the Squad cards, for Basic mode a Yellow
die will be used, while the Red die will be used for Dark mode.
For Darkness faction, absence of a given Squad on the board does not
prevent using Change Mode or restoring Endurance tokens.
DARKNES DIFFICULTY LEVEL CARDS
5 Darkness Difficulty Level cards are special cards that are part of Darkness
Action deck.
After resolving a Darkness Difficulty Level card, place it anywhere on the
board so that it is visible at all times. It’s effect remains in play for the rest
of the game (with the exception of Now or Never card; it’s effect lasts till the
end of next player turn).
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RESOLVING DARKNESS ACTION CARDS
Each Darkness Action card, unlike other factions’ Action cards, is dedicated to
only 1 Squad (with the exception of All Hell Breaks Loose card).
Darkness Action card is divided into two parts: upper and lower.
The player first resolves the upper part, and then proceeds to resolve the
lower part of the card.
UPPER PART:
Resolve all steps, top to bottom (separated by a chain).
If a card offers a choice of options X or Y, ialways resolve opTion X (the first
one). Only in the case where resolving option X is impossible, proceed to
resolve option Y instead.
If there are several activities in one step (X and Y), resolve as many as
possible. Only in the case where no activities in step X are feasible, resolve
step Y instead.
MOVE and COMBAT in the upper part always refer to all models of a given
Darkness Squad, unless the card specifies otherwise.
LOWER PART:
Lower part consists of two parts: X or Y, where X is a payable
Action, and Y is a „gain ” option.
Actions in the lower part of Action card have a cost in Dark Points ( ).
Darkness will automatically pay and perform the Action, as long as Darkness
has enough and the Action can be performed (eg. there’s a valid target within
range of that Action).
Only in the case where the Action can’t be performed (either due to lack of
Dark Points or Action conditions not being met – eg. no valid target), option Y
will be resolved (Darkness gains X ).
SPAWN DARKNESS MODELS:
Spawn Darkness models Action allows deploying models to the board.
Darkness model is deployed to any empty hexes with a Shadow Gate.
If this is not possible (all hexes adjacent to a Shadow Gate are occupied), the
model is deployed to any empty hexes with any enemy model.
After a Darkness model is killed it is returned back to the pool, and can be
Spawned on the board again.
DARKNESS AI MOVE:
The player plays out the AI action by perform Move fulfilling all three conditions
below. If they are mutually exclusive, forfeit the lower one.
A) AVOID PENALTIES
Avoid hexes with Demon Shrine, Rha-Zack Shrine, Reborn Thornheart
Wood, Demon models with CrystalAegis token and Oracle of Wrath with Weaken-
ing Reborn token. Avoid Spaces with Underground Strike Reborn token and Mine
Rha-Zack token. This condition can be forfeit if no other enemy models are available on
the board.
B) FINISH YOUR MOVEMENT WITH AN ENEMY MODEL WITH THE
LOWEST INI WITHIN MOVE RANGE (init - is lower than 0)
If no enemy models are within Move Range, Move the maximum number of
hexes in the direction of the closest enemy model.
C) BLOCK CRYSTAL SOURCES
Finish your Movement with Crystal Source that has no other Darkness
models adjacent to it.
If an enemy model is also with this Crystal Source, Push it to hexes
non- with the Crystal Source, if possible.
Demon Shrine is not a Crystal Source for Darkness faction.
COMBAT:
If Darkness model performs a Combat Action while with several enemy
models, its target will be the enemy model with lowest INI (and with no
Weakening Reborn tokens).
Darkness model will never perform a Combat Action against an enemy model
with Crystal Aegis Demon token.
EFFECTS OF ACTION CARDS VS DARKNESS:
Action cards containing „until opponent pays X Crystals” remain effective
until Darkness pays X . Darkness faction automatically pays X (if possible)
at the beginning of Darkness turn, to remove the effect. Action cards containing
„until opponent Passive turn” remain effective until player Passive turn.
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COOP DARKNESS CAMPAIGN

This sheet describes the battle against Darkness in 2 player coop mode
12 –DARKNESSQUADANDSQUADCARDS PLACE CRYSTAL SOURCES
Setup 4 Crystal Source tokens. The Crystal Source
may be placed on any empty Space of the map,
SETUP as long as it’s at least 2 spaces away from any
Shrines or other Crystal Sources. Each
1 – BOARD Crystal Source must always fit inside a
You can select either side; regular or the "darkness" side. Preferably single Space.
sit by the long side of the board to be able to reach all components. Also each Crystal Source token has to be
Note: Usually the specific scenario will indicate which board to use. placed exactly one Space away from
Also see Battle map Selection Info later in this document. the Shadow Gate (no more and no less).
Note: This step is usually somehow changed by
2 – DICE specific scenario rules.
Place the dice wherever you want.
13 – DEPLOY MODELS
3 – NEUTRAL CRYSTAL AND CHARGES PILE Begin with deploying any 3 Darkness models anywhere
Shadow gate. Then players sets up all their squads by placing all
with
Place 20 Crystals, and 20 Charge tokens next to map.
it's models on the map one by one alternating between players.
4 – DETERMINE FIRST PLAYER Models can be places on any empty hex with the following conditions.
The entire base of each model has to fit inside a single Space
Darkness begins.
A model can’t be placed in Base to Base contact with any Shrine,
5 – CHOOSE FACTION Crystal Source or enemy model.
If the Squad had more than 1 model, the subsequent models have to be
Pick any faction to face of against the Darkness. Collect all elements of placed Base to Base ( ) contact with at least ONE model from the
the selected faction: their Squad deck, the Action deck, 1 Banner card, same Squad.
1 Help card, 1 Shrine token, 1 Faction Sheet, all faction-specific tokens,
Models from the same squad does not have to be in the same space.
and finally – all their models.

6 – PLANT YOUR BANNERS 14 – PLACE VICTORY MARKERS AND FACTION TOKENS

Place your Banner card on the Banner slot. The Darkness has no banner. Place a Victory Marker right in the middle of the Victory Points track
(on the red space). Then place your Faction token on one end of the track
7 – CHOOSE SQUADS and any other Faction token on the other side which represents the
Darkness faction. Victory point track is shared between players.
Unlike in standard games, players start these campaigns with a
pre-determined force. The details can be found in introductions to specific
campaigns. Additionally, the standard rule that restricts your deck to
15 – PREPARE CRYSTAL POOLS Victory marker
Take 2 Crystals from the neutral pile (see Step 3) and place them in your
cards of Squads present in your army is lifted. Your deck carries over
Crystal Pool(shared between the players). Place 3 Dark Points ( ) in
between the battles, and sometimes it may contain cards that don’t refer
Darkness pool. Do not add 2 Crystals to Darkness pool –
to any Squad present in a particular engagement. Please remember that
Darkness faction does not use Crystals.
in this case the Top Action of the card is still available and may be used
by any Squad!
Unlike in standard games, campaign battles do not end 16 – DRAW THE STARTING HANDS
when human players run out of Action cards. If that happens, simply Each player draws 3 cards from the top of their Action decks.
shuffle all your discarded cards and use them as your new deck.
Divide up the squad number as evenly as possible between you. You
can select two factions but then 1 faction brings the banner and the
17 – DISPERSAL
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other brings the shrine.
Each player builds a separate deck of Action cards, picking 5 Action cards
for each Squad they get to control (but no less than 10 cards). 18 – FIRST TURN
The Darkness takes the first turn unless otherwise specified
8 – DISTRIBUTE ENDURANCE TOKENS
Unless otherwise noted, on each Squad card, place a number of
Endurance tokens equal to the value indicated by the grey BATTLE MAP SELECTION INFO
shield icon on the card.
Some battles also use an alternative, Darkness-themed battlefield layout, printed
9 – PREPARE ACTION DECKS on the back of the standard battle map. It has less available Spaces and more
impassable obstacles. Please keep in mind that these obstacles DO NOT count as
The specific campaign/scenario will guide you in creating deck for you the edge of the map – only Spaces on the true border of the map do.
selected faction as well as the darkness forces. In the middle of this darkness-themed map is the Red Zone – a cluster of
four Spaces that’s sometimes referenced in the setup rules of scenarios (see the
10 – CHOOSE THE POSITIONING/COUNTERING PLAYER diagram below).
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If there is a break (missing Space) between two Spaces, this break cannot be
11 – PLACE SHRINES crossed by Move Action and Line Of Fire cannot be drawn through it.
Unless otherwise noted start by deploying
Darkness Shrine (Shadow Gate) to the middle
of the board. Then place your faction shrine.
The Shrines have to be placed at least 2 Spaces
from each other. Each shrine also has to fit within a
single Space.

TIME TRACK
Many battles of these campaigns use the Time Track instead of (or in addition to)
the Victory Points track. Time Track usually shows the end of the battle and
all special events that happen during the encounter. Before a scenario begins,
place a Time Marker on slot 1 of the track, and then set up any Event Markers
listed in the scenario on their corresponding slots. They will help you
remember when the next event triggers.
You move the Time Track only after ALL human players have taken their turns.
Any Actions that grant a specific player extra turns (such as the Time Jump)
do not move the Time Track!
SPECIFIC CAMPAIGN RULES
Use these two reference pages and select the campaign you wish to play.
You then have to follow those campaign specific rules as well as specific
scenario rules. They override the rules stated here but you need not to look
in more places.
FLOW OF THE GAME
DARKNESS TURN
During each Darkness turn draw and resolve (respectively)
2 Darkness Action cards. Discard the cards after they’ve been resolved. If
you draw 2 Darkness Difficulty Level cards in one turn, choose and resolve
only 1 of them, discarding the other. Do not draw and resolve any additional
Darkness Action cards this turn.
PLAYER'S TURN
At the end of each of their Passive turns, flip all Darkness
Squad cards to their Basic mode.
PAYING WITH OTHER RESOURCES
Darkness faction can never use other
resources (Victory Points or Endurance tokens) as a substitute to Dark
Points ( ) when paying any costs.
DICE
Darkness faction ignores special rule of Marked sides of dice
during their rolls.
END OF THE GAME
„One of the players loses all of their models” condition does not apply
to Darkness faction.
DARKNES SQUAD AND SQUAD CARDS
Darkness Squad cards also specify which die (Yellow or Red) is used for all
rolls of a given model. As shown on the Squad cards, for Basic mode a Yellow
die will be used, while the Red die will be used for Dark mode.
For Darkness faction, absence of a given Squad on the board does not
prevent using Change Mode or restoring Endurance tokens.
DARKNES DIFFICULTY LEVEL CARDS
5 Darkness Difficulty Level cards are special cards that are part of Darkness
Action deck.
After resolving a Darkness Difficulty Level card, place it anywhere on the
board so that it is visible at all times. It’s effect remains in play for the rest
of the game (with the exception of Now or Never card; it’s effect lasts till the
end of next player turn).
RULES REFERENCE SHEET FOR
COOP DARKNESS CAMPAIGN PAGE 2
RESOLVING DARKNESS ACTION CARDS
Each Darkness Action card, unlike other factions’ Action cards, is dedicated to
only 1 Squad (with the exception of All Hell Breaks Loose card).
Darkness Action card is divided into two parts: upper and lower.
The player first resolves the upper part, and then proceeds to resolve
the lower part of the card.
UPPER PART:
Resolve all steps, top to bottom (separated by a chain).
If a card offers a choice of options X or Y, ialways resolve opTion X (the first
one). Only in the case where resolving option X is impossible, proceed to
resolve option Y instead.
If there are several activities in one step (X and Y), resolve as many as
possible. Only in the case where no activities in step X are feasible, resolve
step Y instead.
MOVE and COMBAT in the upper part always refer to all models of a given
Darkness Squad, unless the card specifies otherwise.
LOWER PART:
Lower part consists of two parts: X or Y, where X is a payable
Action, and Y is a „gain ” option.
Actions in the lower part of Action card have a cost in Dark Points ( ).
Darkness will automatically pay and perform the Action, as long as Darkness
has enough and the Action can be performed (eg. there’s a valid target within
range of that Action).
Only in the case where the Action can’t be performed (either due to lack of
Dark Points or Action conditions not being met – eg. no valid target), option Y
will be resolved (Darkness gains X ).
SPAWN DARKNESS MODELS:
Spawn Darkness models Action allows deploying models to the board.
Darkness model is deployed to any empty hexes with a Shadow Gate.
If this is not possible (all hexes adjacent to a Shadow Gate are occupied), the
model is deployed to any empty hexes with any enemy model.
After a Darkness model is killed it is returned back to the pool, and can be
Spawned on the board again.
DARKNESS AI MOVE:
The players plays out the AI action by perform Move fulfilling all three conditions
below. If they are mutually exclusive, forfeit the lower one.
A) AVOID PENALTIES
Avoid hexes with Demon Shrine, Rha-Zack Shrine, Reborn Thornheart
Wood, Demon models with CrystalAegis token and Oracle of Wrath with Weaken-
ing Reborn token. Avoid Spaces with Underground Strike Reborn token and Mine
Rha-Zack token. This condition can be forfeit if no other enemy models are available on
the board.
B) FINISH YOUR MOVEMENT WITH AN ENEMY MODEL WITH THE
LOWEST INI WITHIN MOVE RANGE (init - is lower than 0)
If no enemy models are within Move Range, Move the maximum number of
hexes in the direction of the closest enemy model.
C) BLOCK CRYSTAL SOURCES
Finish your Movement with Crystal Source that has no other Darkness
models adjacent to it.
If an enemy model is also with this Crystal Source, Push it to hexes
non- with the Crystal Source, if possible.
Demon Shrine is not a Crystal Source for Darkness faction.
COMBAT:
If Darkness model performs a Combat Action while with several enemy
models, its target will be the enemy model with lowest INI (and with no
Weakening Reborn tokens).
Darkness model will never perform a Combat Action against an enemy model
with Crystal Aegis Demon token.
EFFECTS OF ACTION CARDS VS DARKNESS:
Action cards containing „until opponent pays X Crystals” remain effective
until Darkness pays X . Darkness faction automatically pays X (if possible)
at the beginning of Darkness turn, to remove the effect. Action cards containing
„until opponent Passive turn” remain effective until player Passive turn.