The Map: Moving and Fighting

Wendake's map, Guards and Outposts, moving Warriors, transferring Natives Home and fighting, with the rulebook's own do's and don'ts.

The map

1. Field with a Woman — a Productive Area for Vegetables; one Native at most.
2. Forest with a Hunter — a Productive Area for Beavers.
3. A Guard — a standing Warrior outside the Productive Areas.
4. Canoes on a Lake — the Lake does not matter in the base game.
5. Territory border — each step crosses one; Lakes and rivers cannot be crossed.
6. A flag — English or French territory, for the Alliance tiles.
7. An empty forest — free for any Warrior to claim as an Outpost.

• A territory is an area of land; a Lake holds Canoes; your Home is your starting territory, closed to opponents.
• A Productive Area is a space in a territory for one Woman (field) or one Hunter (forest). Only Home areas can hold several, and they still produce one each.
• A Native is any Warrior, Woman or Hunter.

The map is built from two halves chosen by player count; solo uses the 2-player map.

Guards and Outposts

Only Warriors move. A Warrior that enters a territory is placed in one of two ways:

• Outpost — laid down inside an empty Productive Area. One Warrior per area. An Outpost cannot move again; later it can be transferred Home and replaced by a Woman or Hunter.
• Guard — standing outside the Productive Areas. Any number per territory. Guards protect your Outposts, Women and Hunters there, and Guards win Military majorities.

Moving Warriors

With a Move action or a Progress tile you have a number of steps to share among your Warriors (not Outposts). Three steps can move three Warriors one step each, or one Warrior three steps. A step can:

• move a Warrior into an adjacent territory — never an opponent’s Home, never across a Lake or river — where it becomes a Guard or directly an Outpost; or
• turn a Guard into an Outpost inside its own territory.

You may move through territories holding opponents’ Guards and stop where you like.

Transferring Natives

At any time during your turn — but not in the middle of an action — you may transfer any of your Outposts back to your Home and immediately replace it with a Woman or Hunter from your Home, as the Productive Area shows. You may also leave the area empty.

• You cannot move a Warrior, transfer it Home and move it again with the same action. (Using an Action tile, then a Progress tile, is two actions — that is allowed.)
• Women and Hunters on the map never go back Home except through Smallpox.

Fighting

Fighting only happens during a movement, when your Warrior is in a territory with another player’s Natives. Each fight is one Warrior against one Native; moving in and attacking costs one step, and a Warrior already in the territory spends a step to attack.

1. Your Warrior against a Guard: both are injured and go to their owners’ Long Houses.
2. Your Warrior against a Native in a Productive Area:
   • a Woman or Hunter is injured (to its Long House) and your Warrior stays there as an Outpost;
   • a Warrior (Outpost) — both are injured.
3. Guards first: while a player has Guards in a territory, you must attack all of them before you can attack that player’s Natives in Productive Areas.

Tribe powers change some fights: the Cayuga’s Women and the Mohawk black Warrior go Home instead of to the Long House, and the Tuscarora Hunters injure their attacker (Tribe cards).

[Allies] European Patrols fight differently: everyone involved goes Home (New Allies).

In short

You can:

• move into any empty Productive Area, whatever Guards stand there;
• stand beside an opponent’s Guard without attacking it;
• attack Guards even if you don’t want the Productive Area;
• spend a step to attack with a Guard already in the territory;
• before or after any action on your turn, transfer Outposts Home, replacing them with Women or Hunters or leaving the area empty;
• move and transfer a Warrior with an Action tile, then move and transfer it again with a Progress tile (or the other way round).

You cannot:

• move an Outpost;
• attack a Native in a Productive Area while its owner has Guards in that territory;
• move, transfer and move the same Warrior again within one action;
• take a Woman or Hunter off a Productive Area outside your Home (Smallpox aside).