Evo: The "Game no Name" Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Turn Action: Movement and Capture
• The Four Roles
• Beginning of the Game

Turn Action: Movement and Capture

On his turn, a player can move one of his square-shaped pieces. All the pieces (but the Castle, which as said before cannot be moved) are equal to each other. Each of them can move in 4 different ways, according to the side of the piece facing "north," north being defined as "forward" from the POV of the owner of the piece. So for example "north" for the player sitting on the east side of the table will be westward, while for the player sitting on the north side of the table it will be southward, and so on.

On his turn the player can move one of his pieces in one of these 2 ways:

• Just rotate the piece in place (thus changing the piece movement type for the next time he will decide to move it);
• Move the piece and then (optionally) rotate it.

A player can capture other players' pieces by moving one of his pieces on a square occupied by an opponent's piece. Pieces can never "go through" or "jump over" other pieces, both of the same or different colours.

Each piece can be oriented in four different ways (one per each side of the piece) enabling it to four different kinds of movement.

The active role is the one facing "north."

The Four Roles

These are the four roles a piece can assume:

• Warrior: it moves 1 square and can't go backwards, in other words it can move to one of the 5 squares adjacent to it (W, NW, N, NE, E).
• Blade: it moves 1 or 2 squares "forward" (N).
• Catapult: it can move up to 3 squares diagonally, going only forward, as usual (NE, NW).
• Shield: the only role that can go backwards; it can move up to 2 squares going South, or just 1 square going diagonally (SW or SE).

Beginning of the Game

The first player to move will be the one opening the table. Then it will be the player on his left the one to move, and so on, going clockwise.

We advise you not to distract from what the other players do: you can lose the game even if an enemy doesn't conquer your Castle (one wins, all others lose).