Star Wars: Shatterpoint Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Game Overview
• Key Concepts
  • Missions, Struggles, and Objectives
    • Parts of Mission Cards
    • Parts of Struggle Cards
  • Objective Tokens
  • Struggle Tracker
  • Objects
  • Units and Characters
  • Allies, Enemies, and Control
  • Unit Stat Cards
    • Parts of Unit Stat Cards
  • Unit Order Cards & Shatterpoint Cards
  • Abilities
  • Stance Cards
    • Parts of Stance Cards
  • Attack and Defense Expertise Charts
  • Effects
  • Stacking Effects
  • Will of the Force
  • Measurement
• Game Setup
  • Building Strike Teams
  • Building Squads
  • Establishing the First Player and Choosing Sides
  • Setting up the Mission
  • Creating the Battlefield
  • Controlling Objectives
  • Winning the game
  • The Struggle
  • Momentum Tokens
• Game Mechanics
  • Parts of a Game
  • Setting Up the Game
  • Deployment
  • Playing the Game
  • Reserving an Order Card
  • Shatterpoint Cards
  • Refreshing the Order Deck
  • Activating Units
  • Multiple Character Units
  • Movement
  • Overlapping
    • Advance
    • Climb
    • Dash
    • Jump
    • Push & Pull
  • Toward or Away
  • Place
• Making an Attack
  • Attack Range
  • Ranged Attacks
  • Melee Attacks
  • Engagement
  • Dice
  • Attack and Defense Stats
  • Combat Tree
    • Directed Effect Icons
    • Personal Effect Icons
  • The Damage Pool
• Making an Attack
  • Attack Example
• Damaging Units
  • Becoming Wounded
  • Becoming Injured
  • Becoming Defeated
• Conditions
• Terrain
  • Elevation Relativity
  • Ingress Points
• Line of Sight
• Hunker Tokens & Cover
• Appendix A: Timing
  • Making an Attack
  • Activating a Unit
  • Taking a Turn
• Appendix B: Keywords
• Quick Reference
  • Turn Sequence
  • Attack Sequence
  • Icons
  • Dice Faces

Game Overview

Shatterpoint is a skirmish miniatures game for two players. In Shatterpoint, players take control of iconic characters from the Star Wars galaxy and their allies, battling against each other to be the first to complete randomized missions across a terrain-filled battlefield.

Each character in Shatterpoint is represented by a highly-detailed miniature. Players collect, assemble, and paint their Shatterpoint miniatures to create a strike team that is truly their own.

Key Concepts

This section describes the fundamental concepts around the miniatures and basic gameplay.

Missions, Struggles, and Objectives

While combat is core to Shatterpoint, victory is mainly achieved by successfully completing objectives that are revealed over the course of play. Every game of Shatterpoint has a mission that gives an overall structure to the game. Each mission presents its own objectives and any special rules associated with those objectives.

Each player brings a single Mission Set to the game. A Mission Set is comprised of a Mission Card and all of its corresponding Struggle Cards, denoted by the set symbol at the bottom right of each card.

Each mission in Shatterpoint is composed of several Struggles. Objectives shift when each new Struggle is revealed, keeping all combatants on their toes. To win the game and emerge victorious, players have to adapt their strategies to the ever-shifting flow of battle.

The goal of every game of Shatterpoint is to complete the mission by winning Struggles. The first player to win two Struggles wins the game!

Parts of Mission Cards

Each Mission Card is made up of the following parts:

1. Mission Name – The title of the Mission Set.
2. Mission Special Rules – Special rules that apply to the Mission.
3. Set Symbol – What Mission Set the card is from.
4. Objective Setup – Indicates where Objective tokens are placed on the battlefield.

Example Mission Card, Shifting Priorities: During the second and third Struggles, at the start of each of their Turns, players roll one Defense Die and consult the Mission Map to mark the corresponding Active Objective token with a Priority Objective token. A player that controls one or more Active objectives marked with a Priority Objective token moves the Struggle token one additional space toward their Momentum tokens at the end of their Turn. If a Priority Objective token is already marking an indicated Objective token, it does not move.

Parts of Struggle Cards

Each Struggle Card is made up of the following parts:

1. Struggle Name – The title of the Struggle.
2. Active Objectives – Indicates which Objective tokens are Active during the Struggle. When multiple maps are printed on a Struggle Card, the player who lost the previous Struggle chooses which map to use in the subsequent Struggle. Some Struggle Cards may denote other information about objectives that pertains to the Mission Special Rules.
3. Set Symbol – What Mission Set the card is from.
4. Phase Number – Indicates which phase the Struggle Card corresponds to.

Objective Tokens

Objective tokens represent the various points of interest, battlefield assets, or people that the players are fighting over. Objective tokens have two sides: Active and Inactive. Objective tokens always begin the game on their Inactive side and are activated by Struggle Cards and other effects. Some Mission Cards may list specific special rules that affect the Objective tokens during the game.

Struggle Tracker

The Struggle Tracker is a dashboard that helps players keep track of the current Struggle. It has 17 spaces – a zero space, where the Struggle token begins, and eight spaces on either side that players will fill with Momentum tokens as the game progresses. Players move the Struggle token back and forth along the Struggle Tracker as they race to out-score one another and tip the balance of battle in their favor.

Objects

Characters and tokens are referred to collectively as objects.

Units and Characters

In Shatterpoint, players create a team of heroes and villains drawn from the Star Wars galaxy. Collectively, these heroes and villains are referred to as Units.

All Units are made up of one or more characters. Each character is represented on the table by one or more highly-detailed miniatures on a single base. Each Unit has a corresponding Unit Stat Card that explains its rules.

There are three types of Units: Primary, Secondary, and Supporting. Some Units represent specific characters while others represent the unnamed troopers working alongside them.

Most Units are Single Character Units that contain only one character. Supporting Units commonly contain multiple characters. The rules for Multiple Character Units can be found on page 23.

For example, General Anakin Skywalker is a Single Character Unit. 501st Clone Troopers is a Multiple Character Unit containing two characters.

Allies, Enemies, and Control

In Shatterpoint, rules often use the terms "allied" or "enemy" when referring to Units, characters, or effects. A player controls all the Units that make up their strike team, and the characters that make up those Units. Characters and Units a player controls are allied characters and Units. Effects caused by allied characters and Units are allied effects. Characters and Units that a player's opponent controls are enemy characters and Units. Effects caused by enemy characters and Units are enemy effects.

Unit Stat Cards

Each Unit has a corresponding Unit Stat Card that lists the necessary information about the Unit. Unit Stat Cards have two sides. The back of the card displays the Unit's Name, Unique Name, Unit Type, Force stat, Era, the number of characters in the Unit, and either the Unit's Squad Points or Points Cost.

The front of the card shows all the Unit's Tags, abilities, Stamina, and Durability. The back side of the card is used while building strike teams, while the front is used during gameplay.

Parts of Unit Stat Cards

1. Unit Name – The Unit's name.
2. Unit Type – The Unit's type: Primary, Secondary, or Supporting.
3. Tags – Tags are keywords that define a Unit and are referred to by certain game rules and abilities.
4. Durability – The number of Injury tokens a Unit can have before being Defeated.
5. Stamina – The number of Damage tokens a Unit can have before being Wounded.
6. Force – The amount the Unit's presence contributes to influencing the Will of the Force. The combined total of all Force stats across a player's strike team at the start of the game dictates the number of Force tokens in that player's Force Pool.
7. Era – The Era of time the Unit is from. All Units in a squad must share the same Era, but strike teams may be made up of squads from different Eras.
8. Squad Points (SP) or Point Cost (PC) – This value is used during squad building – Primary Units have Squad Points (SP), while other Units have a Point Cost (PC).
9. Unique Name – A Unit with a Unique Name is a specific person, droid, or other being in the Star Wars galaxy. Units that share a Unique Name may not be included in the same strike team with each other – there's only one Cad Bane! Not all Units have a Unique Name.
10. Abilities – A list of all the abilities a Unit can use.
11. Number of Characters – The number of characters that comprise the Unit is shown here.

Characters are sometimes referred to by their Unit's Type. A character in a Primary, Secondary, or Supporting Unit can be referred to as a Primary, Secondary, or Supporting character, respectively.

Unit Order Cards & Shatterpoint Cards

In the tight press of battle, it can be nearly impossible to coordinate the actions of soldiers and characters fighting desperately to complete their objectives before time runs out. In these pivotal moments, great commanders learn to adapt quickly to the chaos of battle and make the most of what fate gives them to work with.

Order Cards control which Units a player can activate during their Turn. Each Unit in a player's strike team comes with a corresponding Unit Order Card. Shatterpoint Cards are special Order Cards that act as "wild" cards, allowing a player to activate the Unit of their choice.

Each Unit in a player's strike team has a corresponding Unit Order Card. Each player has an Order Deck composed of those Unit Order Cards and one Shatterpoint Card. Players create their starting Order Deck by shuffling all their Unit Order Cards together with their Shatterpoint Card and placing the newly-created deck face down near the battlefield. Players cannot look at the cards in their Order Deck unless told to do so by a rule.

A Tactic icon on a Unit Order Card is a reminder that the Unit has a Tactic ability that will resolve at the start of the Unit's activation.

Abilities

Whether the result of training, innate talent, or mastery over the Force, every Unit in Shatterpoint is capable of performing incredible feats that, when used wisely, can help change the course of battle.

Units have abilities listed on their Unit Stat Card. The different types of abilities are listed below, and each has a corresponding icon to identify the type of ability it is.

• Active – Active abilities can be used at any time during a Unit's activation. If their text begins with "Action:", the Unit must spend an action to use the ability. Active abilities always have a Force cost.
• Reactive – Reactive abilities can only be used in response to a specific triggering event. Reactive abilities state when they can be used in their rules text and always have a Force cost. Each player may only use one Reactive ability in response to a single triggering event.
• Innate – Innate abilities are always in effect and never have a Force cost. In addition to normal Innate abilities, some Units have special Innate abilities known as Tactic and Identity Innate abilities.
• Tactic – Tactic abilities are special Innate abilities that allow Units to work together. The effects of Tactic abilities are resolved at the start of a Unit's activation.
• Identity – Identity abilities are special Innate abilities unique to Primary Units. Each Identity ability explains how it is triggered and used. Note that while Identities are often resolved in response to a triggering event, they are Innate abilities and do not preclude a player from using a single Reactive ability in response to the same event.

Active and Reactive abilities always have a Force cost, even if it is zero, where Innate abilities do not. The Force cost of an ability can never be reduced below zero.

To use an Active or Reactive ability, a Unit must spend Force from their controlling player's Force Pool equal to the cost of the ability. If a player does not have enough Ready Force tokens to pay the cost, the Unit may not use the ability. Additionally, a Unit must spend 1 Force for every Wounded and Injured token that it has as an additional cost to use the ability. Force spent in this way does not add to the effects of abilities that have a variable Force cost.

A Unit may only use each of its Active and Reactive abilities a maximum of once per Turn.

Reactive abilities may be used only in response to a triggering event, and each player may use only one Reactive ability for each triggering event.

Innate, Tactic, and Identity abilities are always in effect.

The text of many abilities instructs players to apply different effects, which are represented by icons. A list of effect icons can be found on page 31.

When the game rules say "at any time" they do not literally mean at any time – abilities with this timing may only be used when no other ability or effect is resolving. For example: a Unit cannot use an "at any time" ability in the middle of an attack, movement, or other effect.

Example: Aurra Sing makes an attack targeting Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More as part of a combat action. In response to this triggering event, Aurra Sing uses the Hit and Run ability. Aurra Sing cannot also use Double the Contract, Double the Payout because only one Reactive ability can be used by each player in response to a single triggering event.

Stance Cards

How a Unit approaches combat is as central to who it is as their personality or background. Whether the Unit has mastered the art of Djem So with a lightsaber or relies on guile and subterfuge to unbalance and defeat their opponents, each Unit's combat techniques have a major influence on how it contributes to the battle.

Each Unit has an additional card called a Stance Card. Stance Cards list all of a Unit's attacks, defenses, and their Combat Trees. Some Stance Cards are double-sided and flip back and forth between the different fighting styles available to the Unit. Combat Trees are explained in detail on page 31.

Stance Cards represent the fighting styles available to a Unit. Most Units' Stance Cards only have one side – but some are double-sided, showing the versatility of the Unit. A Stance Card's face up side indicates the matching Unit's Active Stance; the opposite side is their Inactive Stance (if applicable). Each side of a Stance Card contains a Combat Tree, the Melee and Ranged combat stats, and the Attack and Defense Expertise Charts for the corresponding Stance.

A Unit can only use the combat stats, Combat Tree, and Expertise Charts of its Active Stance.

A Unit that has a double-sided Stance Card may flip its Stance Card to the other side once per activation, at any time during its activation. When it does, the new face up Stance becomes the Unit's Active Stance.

Example: At the start of Lord Maul's activation, his Stance Card is set to the Dark Rage side. This is his Active Stance. Sinister Cunning is his Inactive Stance.

Parts of Stance Cards

1. Unit Name – The Unit's name.
2. Stance Name – The Stance's name.
3. Expertise Charts – Each Stance Card contains a set of Expertise Charts. Each Expertise Chart corresponds to a Unit's Melee attacks, Ranged attacks, or their defenses. These charts are referenced when making an attack with the listed weapon or defending against an attack to determine the outcome of attack expertise and defense expertise results in the Unit's attack or defense rolls.
4. Melee Stats – The Unit's Melee Attack and Melee Defense stats. The top number, inside the grey triangle, is the number of Attack Dice the Unit rolls when making a Melee attack. The bottom number, inside the blue square, is the number of Defense Dice the Unit rolls when defending against a Melee attack.
5. Ranged Stats – The Unit's Ranged Attack and Ranged Defense stats. The top number, inside the grey triangle, is the number of Attack Dice the Unit rolls when making a Ranged attack. The bottom number, inside the blue square, is the number of Defense Dice the Unit rolls when defending against a Ranged attack.
6. Combat Tree – The Combat Tree is used to determine the outcome of attacks made by characters in a Unit.

Attack and Defense Expertise Charts

All of a Unit's equipment, weapons and defenses are listed on its Stance Card. These can be as impressive as a lightsaber, a blaster, or beskar armor, or they can be as mundane as a bash or martial fighting style.

Each Stance Card lists the Unit's available attack Expertise Charts. Each attack Expertise Chart lists its corresponding weapon and attack type: Melee or Ranged. Ranged attacks have a Range – this is the maximum distance a target can be from the attacking character. A character can only use a Melee attack to attack characters that it is Engaged with (See page 29 for more information about Engagement).

Underneath each attack is its corresponding attack Expertise Chart. This chart shows the benefits of rolling attack expertise results when making that attack.

Each Unit has a defense Expertise Chart. This chart determines the effects of defense expertise results when rolling Defense Dice and is used against both Melee and Ranged attacks.

The effects of an Expertise Chart range from adding results to rolls, modifying existing results, adding damage to the Damage Pool, and even granting movements or other abilities and effects. All effects that are not adding dice results, modifying dice results, adding damage, or adding or negating effects of the attack are applied after the attack is resolved.

Attack and defense rolls may contain attack expertise or defense expertise results, respectively. Attack Dice have attack expertise results, and Defense Dice have defense expertise results. When resolving an attack, compare the number of attack expertise or defense expertise results in the attack or defense rolls to the Expertise Chart that corresponds to the type of roll being made by the Unit. All entries listed in the same row as the number of attack expertise or defense expertise results rolled are applied to the attack or defense roll.

Each row in an Expertise Chart contains entries separated by commas. Most entries are a single icon that adds dice results or damage. These entries are applied to the attack roll, defense roll, or Damage Pool. Some entries list a dice result followed by an arrow pointing to another dice result. This denotes that the entry changes results. When using these entries, change a die roll that shows the first result so that it shows the second result as indicated. Any entry that lists an effect icon is applied after the attack is resolved. Entries may be resolved in any order, but note that Personal effects (see page 32) are always resolved after all Directed effects have been resolved and the Damage Pool has been applied to the defending character.

Effect icons sometimes appear in a character's Expertise Charts. When they do, the effects of those icons, with the exception of damage, are applied after the attack is resolved. Effect icons can be found on page 31.

Example – Modifying a Roll With Expertise: A Mandalorian Super Commando makes a Melee attack targeting Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More, rolling critical, strike, strike, strike, failure, failure.

Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More's Defense roll is block, block, defense expertise, defense expertise, defense expertise.

Consulting the Acrobatics defense Expertise Chart on her Form V Shien Reverse Grip Stance Card, Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More adds two block results to her roll, and changes the Mandalorian Super Commando's critical result to a strike. After determining successes, the attack has no successes remaining. With the attack resolved, Ahsoka may use the jump effect from her Expertise Chart.

When an effect adds results to a roll, add dice with those results to the roll. When an effect changes a result, change a die in the roll to show the new result. After the attack is resolved, any effect icons, such as Jump or Reposition, from Expertise Chart entries are resolved.

Effects

Effects are caused by abilities, attacks, special rules, or Mission Cards. When a special rule references "allied effects" or "enemy effects," it is referring to any result of the effects of an allied or enemy character, respectively. Mission effects, conditions, or special rules controlled by neither player are neither allied nor enemy effects.

Sometimes an effect happens after something is resolved. This means that the effect happens after that thing has been completed.

Unless an effect says otherwise, measure the Range of the effect from the object using the effect.

Example: During Asajj Ventress, Sith Assassin's activation, she advances and Engages Count Dooku, Separatist Leader and the MagnaGuard. The MagnaGuard's Innate ability, Intercede, states that characters Engaged with them cannot target allied Primary characters with attacks. The ability text on the MagnaGuard supersedes the core rule stating that Asajj Ventress, Sith Assassin can target Count Dooku, Separatist Leader with a Melee attack while they are Engaged.

Some effects say that a character or Unit can or does do something, or that an effect can or does happen. Other effects say that a character or Unit cannot do the same thing or that the same effect cannot happen. In any instance where these effects apply to the same character or Unit at the same time, the "cannot" overrides the "can".

Some effects tell a player to halve a stat or the number of dice rolled. Whenever a number is halved, always round the result up.

Example: Lord Maul makes an attack against Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More, dealing seven damage. Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More chooses to use her Reactive ability, What's the Matter, Too Fast For You?, in response. Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More suffers half that damage, rounding up, which is four. Lord Maul suffers the remainder of the damage.

Example: Kalani, Super Tactical Droid makes a Ranged attack targeting General Anakin Skywalker. After the attack has resolved, General Anakin Skywalker can choose to use the Deflect ability on his Unit Stat Card.

Special rules are any game rules that are not detailed in the core rules of the game.

Stacking Effects

Units and objects can gain and lose abilities, effects, and special rules throughout the game. Generally, abilities, effects, and special rules that remain in play only affect a Unit or object once – if a Unit or object with an effect would gain that effect again, they do not gain the effect.

However, some special rules and effects are accompanied by a number in brackets. These effects are stacking effects, meaning that the value of the effect is cumulative. When a stacking effect is gained, the number in brackets becomes that effect's current value. If a Unit would gain a new instance of a stacking effect, add the number in brackets on the new instance of the effect to the current value. If a Unit would lose a stacking effect, subtract the number in brackets on the new instance of the effect from the current value. If an effect's current value is reduced to zero, the effect is lost entirely. An effect's current value can never be less than zero.

Example: Gar Saxon, Merciless Commander has Sharpshooter [2] granted by his Innate ability, I've Got You in My Sights. If another ability were to grant Gar Saxon, Merciless Commander Sharpshooter [1], the effects would stack, giving him Sharpshooter [3].

Will of the Force

The Force is a powerful ally, and though only certain individuals trained in its use can tap into its full potential, the presence of the Force still has a powerful influence on characters and the world around them.

At the start of the game, players create their Will of the Force Pool. Each player adds Force tokens to their Force Pool equal to the combined total of all the Force stats on their strike team's Unit Stat Cards. These tokens are added to the pool with their Ready side face up.

During the game, players spend Force tokens from their Force Pools to activate their Unit's abilities and special rules by flipping Force tokens from their Ready side to their Spent side. This is called spending Force. When a rule or effect instructs a player to Refresh Force, the token is flipped from its Spent side to its Ready side. This is called Refreshing Force.

A Unit's ability or special rule cannot be used if it requires a player to spend more Force than they have Ready in their Force Pool. When an ability or special rule instructs a player to Refresh more Force than they have Spent in their Force Pool, the player Refreshes all Force in their pool, but does not gain additional Force in their Force Pool.

Measurement

Shatterpoint uses two different types of measurement devices: range tools and movement tools. When measuring distance between objects, players should only take the horizontal distance between two objects into account and discount the vertical distance between objects. Vertical distance is only measured to determine the Elevation of terrain. (See page 35 for more information on terrain.) When measuring distances in Shatterpoint, a player may only use one of each type of tool at a time and may not use any other device to measure distances. Players may measure distances at any time.

Range tools are used to measure distances for attacks, actions, abilities, and movement caused by Pushes, Pulls, and Places. There are five range tools – four for Ranges 2 through 5, and a Shove tool for resolving shove results in Combat Trees and Expertise Charts. Range 1 is determined by using the width of any range tool or either end of the Shove tool.

Movement tools are used to measure distances for advancing, dashing, jumping and climbing. There are two movement tools: Advance and Dash. There are 2 movement tools in Shatterpoint. The Advance Tool and Dash Tool are indicated by the appropriate icon in their center pivots.

The Shove Tool is used to resolve Shove results.

When measuring distance, place the appropriate tool with either end (ranged tools) or its notched end (movement tools) in contact with the object being measured from — the character making the attack or using the relevant action or ability, the token, or other object. When measuring from a character, always measure from the base, not the miniature. If this isn't possible (due to terrain, for example), hold the movement tool above the battlefield and position the character based on the movement tool's position.

Whenever an effect says an object or terrain feature must be within a certain distance of another object or terrain feature, the object is considered within that distance if any portion of it is within the specified distance of any portion of the other object or terrain feature. An object is always considered to be within Range of itself. A Unit is considered to be within a distance if any character in the Unit is within that distance.

Example: After making a move action, Bo-Katan Kryze uses her Mandalorians are Stronger Together ability. Measuring with the Range 2 tool, the Clan Kryze Mandalorian's base is touching the tool, so it is within Range 2.

Game Setup

Before the battle can commence, players must first build the squads that make up their strike teams, determine the mission, and – last, but not least – set up the battlefield.

Building Strike Teams

As conflict rages across the galaxy, warring factions deploy strike teams led by their greatest heroes to complete missions of great import. These heroes and the troops that serve in their squads clash against one another to earn victory for their side.

Each player brings a strike team when they play the game. A player's strike team is made up of a single Mission Set and a list of their chosen squads and the Units that make them up. Strike teams contain two squads. Each squad contains three Units. When building a strike team, players may not include any Unit that shares the same Unique Name with another Unit in their strike team and may never include two Units that have the same Unit name.

Building Squads

Squads are created before the game begins by choosing a combination of Units. Each squad consists of exactly one Primary Unit, one Secondary Unit, and one Supporting Unit. When players create their squads, they first pick a Primary Unit to lead the squad. The chosen Primary Unit determines the Era and available Squad Points for the squad. Choose one of the Primary Unit's available Eras. All Units chosen after the Primary Unit must be from the same chosen Era.

Example: Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More and Padawan Ahsoka Tano both share the same Unique Name, so they cannot both be included in the same strike team.

Then players choose one Secondary Unit and one Supporting Unit to add to the squad. Each Primary Unit has a Squad Point (SP) value on the back of their Unit Stat Card. This value dictates the number of Squad Points that a player may spend to add Secondary and Supporting Units to their squad. Secondary and Supporting Units each have a Point Cost (PC) value on the back of their Unit Stat Card. When building a squad, the combined Point Cost (PC) of the chosen Secondary and Supporting Units cannot exceed the Squad Points (SP) provided by the Primary Unit.

A squad must always contain one Primary Unit, one Secondary Unit, and one Supporting Unit.

When players build a squad, they follow these steps:

1. Pick a Primary Unit
2. Choose a Secondary Unit and a Supporting Unit that share the same Era as the Primary Unit. The combined Point Cost (PC) of the chosen Units cannot exceed the Squad Points (SP) value of a squad's Primary Unit.

Establishing the First Player and Choosing Sides

Before doing anything else, players determine who will start the game.

To do this, each player rolls five Attack Dice. The player with the most critical results is the First Player.

In case of a tie, the First Player is the player with the most strike results. If there is still a tie, the player with the most attack expertise results is the First Player. If there is still a tie, players reroll the dice and follow the above rules until the tie is broken.

The First Player then chooses a side of the battlefield to deploy on.

Setting up the Mission

The First Player determines which Mission Set is used for the game, choosing a Mission Set from any player's strike team. Place Objective tokens onto the battlefield with their Inactive side face up, referencing the Mission Card. Each Mission Set comes with three decks of Struggle Cards. Each deck is labeled by Phase: I, II, or III, and is used for sequential Struggles.

Shuffle each deck individually, then draw one card from each deck without revealing them. Place the drawn cards face down, in order, with Phase I on the top and Phase III on the bottom. This is the Mission Deck. These cards determine which Objective tokens become Active during each Struggle. Set the remaining Struggle Cards to the side – they are not used in this game.

Creating the Battlefield

Shatterpoint is played on a 36" x 36" surface referred to as the battlefield. The battlefield can be anything the players' imaginations and terrain collections allow, encompassing everything from the beautiful cities of Naboo to the lava scorched refineries of Mustafar and anything in-between.

The battlefield must contain a mix of terrain features of various sizes and shapes. Terrain features should be predominantly placed in the central area of the battlefield, but players should attempt to create visually interesting environments for the characters to explore, climb, jump on, and traverse throughout the game. Players are encouraged to fill the majority of the battlefield with terrain features of varying elevations.

The battlefield is created after the mission is chosen and Objective tokens are placed. If there are terrain features overlapping where an Objective token is placed, move the Objective token to the highest Elevation where it is completely overlapping the terrain part it is in contact with. If this is not possible, the terrain feature cannot be placed there.

Example: After setting up the mission, the players then place terrain features on the battlefield. When a gantry is placed to connect two buildings, it overlaps one of the Objective tokens. After the terrain part is placed, the Objective token is moved on top of the gantry.

Controlling Objectives

Struggles require characters to control objectives by contesting them. A character is contesting an Active objective if they are within Range 2 of the Objective token and their Unit is not Wounded (For more information on being Wounded, see page 34). Sometimes, an Active objective is marked with a Priority Objective token. Refer to the Mission Set's special rules to determine the effects of the Priority Objective token.

At the end of each Turn, the player with the most characters at the same Elevation as an Objective token and contesting that objective controls it. If there is a tie, control of the objective does not change. If there are no characters contesting the objective that are at the same Elevation as the Objective token, the player with the most characters contesting the objective that are at different Elevations than the Objective token controls it. If there is a tie, control of the objective does not change. When a player controls an objective, they place a Control token on it to show it is being controlled, replacing their opponent's Control token, if one is present. Inactive objectives cannot be contested or controlled.

Once a player has taken control of an objective, they retain control of it until it is taken from them by an opponent or the Struggle ends.

Example: General Anakin Skywalker is within Range 2 and at the same Elevation as the Active objective. The two Mandalorian Super Commandos are also within Range 2 of the objective, but at a different Elevation. General Anakin Skywalker takes control of the objective, even though the opposing player has more characters within Range 2, because he is at the same Elevation as the Objective token.

Example: CC-7567 Captain Rex is within Range 2 at a different Elevation than this Active objective. The two B1 Battle Droids are also within Range 2 of the Active objective, at a different Elevation. The B1 Battle Droids control the objective because they have more characters within Range 2 of the Objective token, and there are no characters within Range 2 and at the same Elevation as the Objective token.

Winning the game

The first player to claim two Struggle Cards wins the game. A player wins the Struggle when the Struggle token is in the same space on the Struggle Tracker as one of that player's Momentum tokens. Each time a player wins a Struggle they claim the current Struggle Card, placing it in front of themself.

A player wins the Struggle if the Struggle token would be placed in a space that is occupied by one of their Momentum tokens, or if that player would place a Momentum token in the same space as the Struggle token. Remember that a Momentum token can never be placed in the center space of the Struggle Tracker!

The Struggle

The Struggle in Shatterpoint is represented on the dashboard as a give-and-take tug of war to represent the ebb and flow of battle. To set up the Struggle Tracker, players place the Struggle token on the center space marked with a zero. Then each player places 1 Momentum token in the space marked with an eight that is closest to their battlefield edge. Starting on the second Turn of the first Struggle, at the end of each player's Turn, they move the Struggle token a number of spaces toward their Momentum tokens equal to the number of Active objectives they control. Sometimes, an Active objective is marked with a Priority Objective token. Refer to the mission's special rules to determine the effects of the Priority Objective token. When the Struggle token would occupy the same space as a player's Momentum token, that player has won the Struggle! That player claims the current Struggle Card, placing it in front of themself.

At the end of a turn in which a player won the Struggle, remove all Momentum tokens from the Struggle Tracker, set all Objective tokens to their Inactive side and remove all Control tokens. Reset the Struggle Tracker by placing the Struggle token on the zero space and placing 1 of each player's Momentum tokens on the eighth space on the Struggle Tracker that is closest to their battlefield edge. Then, the First Player draws the next Struggle Card from the Mission Deck and places it next to the battlefield so that the bottom of the maps on the card corresponds to the First Player's battlefield edge. Some Struggle Cards have two maps on them – when this happens, the player who lost the previous Struggle chooses which of the two maps is used in the newly drawn Struggle. The highlighted Objective tokens become Active and any special rules that apply to the newly-drawn Struggle Card go into effect.

At the end of a Turn in which a player wins a Struggle, the Struggle Tracker is reset and new objectives become Active based on the newly-drawn Struggle Card. When looking at a Struggle Card, the bottom of the map is always the First Player's battlefield edge.

Momentum Tokens

In Shatterpoint, strike teams fight in opposition to one another, pursuing their own goals while thwarting their enemy's plans. Momentum tokens are a representation of a strike team's overall success, and the window of opportunity to complete a mission closes as the opposing player's Momentum tokens move closer to the center of the Struggle Tracker.

When a player gains a Momentum token, they add it to their side of the Struggle Tracker in the next open space farthest from the center. There are several ways for a player to gain Momentum tokens:

• When a Unit becomes Wounded, the opposing player gains a Momentum token.
• After a player moves the Struggle token at the end of their Turn, if the Struggle token remains on their opponent's half of the Struggle Tracker, the active player gains a Momentum token.
• Excluding the first Turn, after a player moves the Struggle token at the end of their Turn, if the Struggle token is in the center space of the Struggle Tracker each player gains a Momentum token.

Momentum tokens cannot be placed in the center space of the Struggle Tracker. If a player has filled the Struggle Tracker completely and would place another Momentum token in the space occupied by the Struggle token, neither player wins, and play continues until the Struggle token would move to a space occupied by one player's Momentum token.

Game Mechanics

This section details the rules of the game.

Parts of a Game

A game is played across alternating Turns, progressing until one player has achieved victory by winning two Struggles.

Setting Up the Game

Before the first Turn begins, players create their Order Deck by shuffling their Unit Order Cards together with their Shatterpoint Card and placing them face down next to the battlefield.

Players create their Will of the Force Pool by adding Force tokens equal to the combined total of their Units' Force stats to their Force Pool.

The Struggle token begins on the zero space at the center of the Struggle Tracker. Both players begin with 1 of their Momentum tokens on the space that is closest to their side of the battlefield, marked with an eight.

Deployment

Once the battlefield, Mission Deck, Order Decks and Force Pools have been created, the players take turns deploying their squads, starting with the First Player. To deploy a squad, a player puts one character from the Primary Unit in one of their squads within Range 2 of their battlefield edge. They then put all remaining characters from Primary, Secondary, and Supporting Units in that squad within Range 1 of the deployed Primary Character.

Once all squads have been deployed, beginning with the First Player, each player chooses an Active Stance for all of their Units with double-sided Stance Cards.

The First Player reveals the top card of the Mission Deck and turns the corresponding Objective tokens to their Active side. Any special rules that apply to this Struggle Card are now affecting the game.

Setup is now complete, and the first Turn begins.

Playing the Game

Gameplay in Shatterpoint is made up of a series of alternating Turns. Players take turns activating their Units, starting with the First Player. During a player's Turn, they are the active player and follow these steps in order:

1. Resolve effects that happen at the start of the Turn. A. Resolve player effects starting with the active player. B. Resolve non-player effects in the order chosen by the active player.
2. The active player reveals the top card of their Order Deck or chooses their Unit Order Card in reserve. A. If there are no cards in the player's Order Deck, but the player has an Order Card in reserve they must choose the reserved Order Card. B. If a player reveals a Unit Order Card that corresponds to a Defeated Unit, remove the Defeated Unit's Unit Order Card from the game and reveal a new Order Card.
3. The active player activates the Unit that corresponds to the revealed or chosen Unit Order Card.
4. Resolve effects that happen at the start of the activation. A. Resolve player effects starting with the active player. B. Resolve non-player effects in the order chosen by the active player.
5. The Unit resolves its activation, making up to two actions and using any of its abilities and special rules.
6. Resolve effects that happen at the end of the activation. A. Resolve player effects starting with the active player. B. Resolve non-player effects in the order chosen by the active player.
7. The Unit's activation ends.
8. Resolve effects that happen at the end of the Turn. A. Resolve player effects starting with the active player. B. Resolve non-player effects in the order chosen by the active player.
9. The active player moves the Struggle token one space toward their Momentum tokens for each Active objective they control this Turn. If it is the first Turn of the game, skip this step.
10. If the Unit that just activated has a number of Injury tokens equal to its Durability, they are Defeated.
11. The active player's Turn is now over; their opponent becomes the active player and begins their Turn as described in step 1. A. If the player who just finished their Turn does not have any cards remaining in their Order Deck or in reserve, they Refresh their Order Deck.

Reserving an Order Card

Once per Turn, after revealing a Unit Order Card, a player may spend 1 Force to put the revealed Unit Order Card into reserve. When a Unit Order Card is placed into reserve, it is placed face up next to the Order Deck. The corresponding Unit does not activate. Instead, the player immediately reveals the next card in their Order Deck and activates that Unit. Each player may have only one Unit Order Card in reserve at a time.

If a player has a card in reserve, they may choose to activate the corresponding Unit instead of revealing the top card of their Order Deck.

Shatterpoint Cards can never be placed in reserve. Instead, after revealing a Shatterpoint Card from their Order Deck, a player may spend 1 Force to reveal the next card in the Order Deck, then shuffle the Shatterpoint Card into the Order Deck. The newly revealed Unit must activate and cannot be placed in reserve.

If a player has a Unit Order Card in reserve at the start of their Turn, they may choose to activate the corresponding Unit instead of revealing the top card of their Order Deck.

Remember: Reserved cards must be chosen before Refreshing the Order Deck.

Shatterpoint Cards

Shatterpoint Cards are special Order Cards that are not Unit Order Cards. When a Shatterpoint Card is revealed, the active player may choose any one of their Units to activate for the Turn.

Refreshing the Order Deck

Order Cards are revealed throughout the game. The Order Deck is Refreshed if one of the following conditions is met:

• If, at the end of a player's Turn, they have no Order Cards left in their Order Deck or reserve, they Refresh their Order Deck.
• If a player must reveal an Order Card but there are no Order Cards in their Order Deck or reserve, Refresh the Order Deck.

To Refresh an Order Deck, follow these steps:

1. Shuffle the Order Discard Pile. Do not shuffle any Order Cards that have been removed from the game (such as those from Defeated Units) into the Refreshed Order Deck.
2. Refresh all of the player's Force tokens in their Force Pool.
3. Continue with the effect that caused the Order Deck to Refresh, if any.

When a player Refreshes their Order Deck they also Refresh their Force Pool. Their opponents do not Refresh their Force Pool until they Refresh their own Order Deck.

Activating Units

Each Unit has a corresponding Unit Order Card which is used to determine when it activates during the game. These cards are shuffled together with a player's Shatterpoint Card to form the Order Deck. Each Turn, a player reveals one of their Order Cards and activates the corresponding Unit.

Units may make up to two actions from the following list during their activation:

• Move – Each character in the Unit may advance, dash, or climb. The rules for movement are found on page 24.
• Focus – During the next attack made by each character in the Unit, this activation, add 1 die to the attack roll.
• Combat – Each character in the Unit may make an attack. The rules for attacking are found on page 29.
• Ability – The Unit may use an ability that requires the use of an action.
• Recover – Each character in the Unit may heal. The rules for Healing are found on page 32.
• Take Cover – Each character in the Unit may be Pushed Range 1 and the Unit gains a Hunker token. The rules for Cover and Hunker tokens are found on page 37. The rules for Pushes are found on page 24.

Units may only make each action once per activation. Once a Unit has made all of its actions and used any other special rules, abilities, or effects its controlling player wishes to use, the Unit's activation ends and the players finish the Turn.

Some special rules or abilities grant actions. If an action is granted by an effect, it does not count as one of the Unit's two actions.

When an Order Card is revealed or chosen from reserve, the corresponding Unit activates and may make up to two actions. Put the Order Card in the Order Discard Pile and resolve the activation following these steps:

1. Activate the corresponding Unit for the revealed Unit Order Card, Unit Order Card chosen from reserve, or the Unit chosen for the Shatterpoint Card.
2. Resolve effects that happen at the start of the activation. A. If the Unit is Wounded: I. Flip the Wounded token to the Injured side. II. Remove all Damage tokens. III. Remove one condition. B. Remove all Hunker tokens. C. Resolve all Tactic abilities. D. Resolve all player effects starting with the active player. E. Resolve all non-player effects in the order of the active player's choice.
3. The Unit makes its actions and uses any abilities or special rules.
4. Resolve effects that happen at the end of the activation. A. Resolve all player effects starting with the active player. B. Resolve all non-player effects in the order of the active player's choice.

Example: A Unit of Clan Kryze Mandalorians makes a move action. The first character advances behind a wall to draw LOS to Asajj Ventress, Sith Assassin. The player decides not to move the second character. Both characters are considered to have made a move action, even though the second character did not move.

Multiple Character Units

Some Units are made up of more than one character. When a Multiple Character Unit makes an action all characters that are part of the Unit may make the same action, in an order determined by their controlling player. Each character must fully resolve the action before the next character in the Unit resolves the same action. An action is resolved once all characters in a Unit have made that action.

When a Multiple Character Unit makes an action, all characters in that Unit are considered to have made that action, even if the player chooses not to resolve it with every character in the Unit.

Movement

There are many ways for objects to move in Shatterpoint:

Advance – When a character advances, it moves using the Advance tool. The character must end this movement at the same Elevation or lower than it began this move. If a character is Engaged (See page 29) by a character in a Unit that is not Wounded and would advance, it dashes instead.

Climb – When a character climbs, it moves using the Dash tool. During this movement, the Dash tool may overlap Impassable terrain parts at any Elevation, and the character may end its movement at any Elevation. If a character is Engaged (See page 29) by a character in a Unit that is not Wounded, it may not climb.

Dash – When a character dashes, it moves using the Dash tool. The character must end this movement on the same Elevation or lower than it began this move.

Jump – When a character jumps, it moves using the Dash tool. During this movement, the Dash tool may overlap Impassable terrain parts at any Elevation, and the character may end its movement at any Elevation.

Push or Pull – When an object is Pushed or Pulled, it is moved using the indicated range tool instead of a movement tool. Move the object the full length of the range tool with its base centered on the tool.

• If an object would contact another object or terrain feature at the same or higher Elevation than the Pushed or Pulled object, the movement ends immediately.
• If an object would contact another terrain part at a higher Elevation than the Pushed or Pulled object, the movement ends immediately.
• If an object that is on top of a terrain part is Pushed or Pulled and would end that movement partially overlapping the battlefield or another terrain part at a lower Elevation, it stops along the movement tool at the last position that was not partially overlapping that terrain part.
• If an object that is on top of a terrain part is Pushed or Pulled and would end that movement partially overlapping an object that is at a lower Elevation, it stops along the movement tool at the last position that was not partially overlapping that object.
• When an object is being Pushed or Pulled, it does not stop this movement if it contacts a part of a terrain feature it is on top of that is the same Elevation as the moving object.
• When an object is Placed, it is moved using the indicated range tool instead of a movement tool.
• Unless the effect says otherwise, measure the Range of Place effects from the object that is being Placed.
• A Placed object may be Placed anywhere within the indicated Range.
• If an object cannot physically fit or balance on top of a terrain part or feature, the object cannot be Placed there.

Example: General Anakin Skywalker is advancing to take cover behind a gantry. To do this, the controlling player places the Advance tool in contact with his base. The player may then move the character anywhere that allows him to remain in contact with the tool and so that he ends his movement at the same Elevation or lower than where the move began.

Example: Kalani, Super Tactical Droid is climbing to reach higher ground and contest the Active objective. To do this, the controlling player places the Dash tool in contact with his base. The player may then move the character anywhere that allows him to stay in contact with the tool. A climb movement can end at any Elevation.

Example: This Unit of 501st Clone Troopers uses the Defensive Maneuver ability, which allows characters in the Unit to dash. To do this, the controlling player places the Dash tool in contact with a character's base. The player may then move the character anywhere that allows it to remain in contact with the tool and so that it ends its movement at the same Elevation or lower than where the move began.

If a character's miniature can't physically fit underneath, balance on top of, or fit inside a terrain feature, the character cannot end a movement there. A character cannot end a movement partially overlapping a terrain part or the battlefield at a different Elevation than they are.

When an object begins a move, determine its Elevation at the start of the move. It is considered to be at that Elevation until the end of that movement.

Overlapping

"Overlapping" is when two objects or terrain features take up all or some of the same space. If an effect would cause two or more characters' bases to overlap at the same Elevation, the moving character can't end a movement there. Terrain features may overlap each other.

Characters at different Elevations are never considered to be overlapping.

Example: Asajj Ventress, Sith Assassin uses Force Push on CC-7567 Captain Rex. The player places the Range 3 tool so that it is touching CC-7567 Captain Rex's base, and moves the character along the tool away from Asajj Ventress, Sith Assassin.

Example: Gar Saxon, Merciless Commander is advancing to attack General Anakin Skywalker. After measuring his move, his base is hanging over the edge of the gantry. Because his base is not completely overlapping the terrain feature, Gar Saxon, Merciless Commander cannot end his movement in that position.

An object can never move off the battlefield. If a Push would cause an object to move off the battlefield, the object stops that movement at the last place it could while following the movement rules.

When a character advances, climbs, dashes, or jumps, they use either the Advance tool or the Dash tool, according to the type of movement being used. Push, Pull, and Place movements use the range tools.

Advance

When a character advances, the controlling player uses the Advance tool. Put the Advance tool's notched end in contact with the character's base. The player may pivot the movement tool however they wish, using the pivot point. The movement tool may overlap any Passable terrain parts and any Impassable terrain parts of the same or lower Elevation than the advancing character. The tool may not overlap Impassable terrain parts of a higher Elevation than the advancing character. The tool may overlap any character's base. Once the movement tool is in the desired position, the player puts the character in contact with any portion of the movement tool. A character may not end this movement at a higher Elevation than it started, but it may end this movement at a lower Elevation.

A character that is Engaged with a character in a Unit that is not Wounded cannot advance – it dashes instead.

Climb

When a character climbs, the controlling player uses the Dash tool. Put the Dash tool's notched end in contact with the character's base. The player may pivot the movement tool however they wish, using the pivot point. The movement tool may overlap any Passable terrain parts and any Impassable terrain of any Elevation. The tool may overlap any character's base. Once the movement tool is in the desired position, the player puts the character in contact with any portion of the movement tool. A character may end this movement at any Elevation.

A character that is Engaged with a character in a Unit that is not Wounded cannot climb.

Dash

When a character dashes, the controlling player uses the Dash tool. Put the Dash tool's notched end in contact with the character's base. The player may pivot the movement tool however they wish, using the pivot point. The movement tool may overlap any Passable terrain parts and any Impassable terrain parts of the same or lower Elevation than the dashing character. The tool may not overlap Impassable terrain parts of a higher Elevation than the dashing character. The tool may overlap any character's base. Once the movement tool is in the desired position, the player puts the character in contact with any portion of the movement tool. A character may not end this movement at a higher Elevation than it started, but it may end this movement at a lower Elevation.

Jump

When a character jumps, the controlling player uses the Dash tool. Put the Dash tool's notched end in contact with the character's base. The player may pivot the movement tool however they wish using the pivot point. The movement tool may overlap any Passable terrain parts and any Impassable terrain of any Elevation. The tool may overlap any character's base. Once the movement tool is in the desired position, the player puts the character in contact with any portion of the movement tool. A character may end this movement at any Elevation.

Push & Pull

Some abilities or special rules Push or Pull objects. Pushes and Pulls are unique forms of movement – they use range tools instead of movement tools. The player resolving a Push positions the indicated range tool with one end touching the Pushed object. Move the Pushed object along the full length of the range tool, centered on the tool. When being Pushed, an object must move Away from the origin of the Push. When being Pulled, follow the same rules as for a Push, except that a Pulled object must move Toward the origin of the Pull.

Example: General Anakin Skywalker shoves Count Dooku, Separatist Leader during an attack, Pushing him Range 1. When the character is moved, the base overhangs this gantry. Count Dooku, Separatist Leader is placed so that his entire base is overlapping the gantry.

As a Pushed or Pulled object moves along the range tool, it stops if it contacts a terrain part that is at the same or higher Elevation than the Pushed or Pulled object, another object that is at the same or higher Elevation than the Pushed or Pulled object, or if it would contact or overlap another character's base. Ignore terrain parts the Pushed or Pulled object started the movement on top of when determining when a Pushed or Pulled object stops.

Example: Barriss Offee, Jedi Padawan uses Force Push on a MagnaGuard. As the MagnaGuard is moved along the range tool, its base contacts a wall that has a higher Elevation than the character. The Push immediately stops and the character stops where its base contacted the wall.

Toward or Away

When an effect results in an object moving Toward or Away from another object, draw a straight line from the far side of the object to the far side of the object that it's being moved Toward or Away from and passing through the center of both objects.

Pivot a movement tool completely to form a 90-degree angle. Place the angled movement tool in contact with the moving object so that its pivot point is centered on the line passing through the center of the moving object and the center of the other object and so that both sides of the tool touch the moving object's base.

If the object is moving Toward something, the pivot point is centered on the line on the opposite side of the object it is moving Toward. If the object is moving Away from something, the pivot point is centered on the line between the moving object and the object it is moving Away from.

The moving object can't cross a straight line drawn along either arm of the angled movement tool to the edge of the table.

Example: In the top example, Asajj Ventress, Sith Assassin is Pushing Lord Maul Away from herself with Force Push. Lord Maul may be moved in any direction that does not cross either arm of the movement tool. In the bottom example, Jango Fett, Bounty Hunter is Pulling Jedi Master Luminara Unduli Toward himself with Capture Wire. Jedi Master Luminara Unduli may be moved in any direction that does not cross either arm of the movement tool.

Place

Some effects can cause an object to be Placed within a certain Range. Unless the effect says otherwise, measure the indicated Range from the object being Placed. The object may be Placed anywhere within the indicated Range. When a rule says that an object is Placed within a given Range of a different object, measure the distance the object is Placed from the specified object. If a required Elevation is not mentioned, the object can change Elevation, higher or lower.

Making an Attack

Attacks in Shatterpoint are represented using opposing dice rolls. When a character makes an attack, it targets an enemy character. The character that is attacking is referred to as the attacker or the attacking character and the targeted character is referred to as the defender or the defending character. Players create dice pools for attack and defense, roll dice, modify the results, and then compare the results. If the attacker has more successes than the defender, they move along their Combat Tree from left to right a number of Options equal to the number of successes remaining in their roll, applying the effects in order.

If a player does not wish to apply an Option from their Combat Tree, they may choose to stop advancing the tree even if successes from their attack remain. Stopping in this manner forfeits the remainder of their successes. Once a player has chosen to apply an Option from their Combat Tree, they must apply all the listed effects in that Option.

If a Unit has a dash ( - ) in their Melee or Ranged Attack stat, characters in that Unit cannot make that type of attack.

Attack Range

There are two types of attacks in Shatterpoint: Melee and Ranged. Characters may only make Melee attacks against characters they are Engaged with (See page 29). Characters may only make Ranged attacks against characters within the Range displayed in its Ranged Attack stat.

Ranged Attacks

In order to make a Ranged attack, there must be an enemy character within the character's Ranged Attack stat's listed Range and in Line of Sight (for more information about Line of Sight see page 37).

When a character makes a Ranged attack, it uses its Ranged Attack stat and the defender uses its Ranged Defense stat when creating dice pools. A character cannot make Ranged attacks while it is Engaged with one or more enemy characters from Units that are not Wounded.

Not all characters have Ranged weapons.

Melee Attacks

In order to make a Melee attack, a character must be Engaged with its target. When a character makes a Melee attack, it uses its Melee Attack stat and the defender uses its Melee Defense stat when creating dice pools.

Engagement

A character is Engaged with enemy characters that are within Range 2 of it, at the same Elevation, and within Line of Sight.

If a character that is Engaged with an enemy character from a Unit that is not Wounded would advance, it dashes instead. A character that is Engaged with an enemy character from a Unit that is not Wounded cannot climb. A character that is Engaged with an enemy character from a Unit that is not Wounded cannot make Ranged attacks.

Example: In the top example, General Anakin Skywalker and Lord Maul are at the same Elevation and within Range 2 of one another. They are Engaged. In the bottom example, General Anakin Skywalker and Lord Maul are at different Elevations and within Range 2 of one another. They are not Engaged.

Dice

Shatterpoint uses specialized eight-sided dice called Attack Dice and six-sided dice called Defense Dice to resolve combat. Each die face is listed below.

Attack Dice are used in attack rolls and have the following results:

• Critical (1 Face) – Critical results are successes when attacking and represent the attacker surprising their opponent, finding the perfect weak spot, or the ability of their weapons to overpower the opposition. Critical results cannot be removed by block results.
• Strike (3 Faces) – Strike results are successes when attacking and represent the effectiveness of the character's attack.
• Attack Expertise (2 Faces) – When attack expertise results are rolled, total the results and consult the Unit's Expertise Chart. Apply all the effects from the attack expertise results to the attack roll. The rules for applying effects from Expertise Charts are found on page 14.
• Failure (2 Faces) – Failure results show the character stumbling, tripping, or otherwise missing during its attack.

Defense Dice are used in defense rolls and have the following results:

• Block (2 Faces) – Each block result cancels one strike result in the attack roll, but may not cancel critical results.
• Defense Expertise (2 Faces) – When defense expertise results are rolled, total the results and consult the Unit's Expertise Chart. Apply all the effects from the defense expertise results to the defense roll. The rules for applying effects from Expertise Charts are found on Page 14.
• Failure (2 Faces) – Failure results show the character stumbling, tripping, or otherwise failing during its defense.

Attack and Defense Stats

Each Unit's Stance Card shows that Unit's Melee and Ranged stats. These stats are each composed of two numbers, one with a grey triangle (Attack) and one with a blue square (Defense). The Melee and Ranged Attack stats are the base number of Attack Dice added to the dice pool when making that type of attack. The Melee and Ranged Defense stats are the base number of Defense Dice added to the defense pool when defending against that type of attack.

Combat Tree

Each Unit has a Combat Tree, located on its Stance Card. Each Combat Tree has a series of columns and rows that contain Options. Each Option is connected to one or more other Options by lines called paths.

When making an attack, if the attacking character has successes remaining in their attack roll after all rolls have been modified, the attacker chooses one Option for each remaining success, starting from any of the orange Options at the far left of the Unit's Combat Tree. A player may choose any Option connected via a path that is above, below, or to the right of the current Option, applying all the effects of the current Option before choosing another. A player may never choose the same Option twice. A player may never choose an Option to the left of the current Option.

When applying the effects of an Option to the defending character, players must do so in the order they appear in the tree, but may apply the effects of each individual Option in any order they choose, before moving on to the next Option.

Damage from Options are added to the Damage Pool before the attacking player chooses their next Option and are later applied to the defending character's Unit.

When a Combat Tree has multiple paths, the player must choose which path to move along. A player may only choose an Option if it is connected by a path to the last Option chosen.

Some Combat Trees may have paths that bypass a column – if this path is chosen, skip the columns it bypasses and continue as normal from the new Option.

If there are no paths leading from the chosen Option, the resolution of the Combat Tree has concluded. If a character still has successes remaining in their attack roll when they have reached the end of their Combat Tree, all the remaining successes are lost.

Options in Combat Trees can list two types of effects, Directed effects and Personal effects. During an attack, the attacker's Directed effects are applied to the defending character and its Personal effects are applied to the attacking character.

Icons appear in many places - rules text, Combat Trees, and even Expertise Charts. When Directed or Personal effect icons appear in rules text, the text explains how to apply the effect. When Directed effect icons appear in a Unit's Combat Trees or Expertise Charts, they always affect the enemy character or Unit as described in the effect. When Personal effect icons appear in a Unit's Combat Trees or Expertise Charts, they always affect the character or Unit that has the icon as described in the effect.

Directed Effect Icons

• Damage – The affected Unit suffers 1 damage. When this icon appears in a Combat Tree Option or Attack Expertise Chart, 1 Damage token is added to the attack's Damage Pool before the attacking player chooses their next Option.
• Shove – The affected character may be Pushed away from the shoving character Range 1, then the shoving character may immediately Pull itself toward the affected character Range 1.
• Strained – The affected Unit gains the Strained condition.
• Disarmed – The affected Unit gains the Disarmed condition.
• Exposed – The affected Unit gains the Exposed condition.
• Pinned – The affected Unit gains the Pinned condition.

The rules for conditions are found on page 35.

Personal Effect Icons

• Advance – The affected character may advance. (page 24)
• Climb – The affected character may climb. (page 24)
• Dash – The affected character may dash. (page 24)
• Jump – The affected character may jump. (page 24)
• Reposition – The affected character may advance, even if it is Engaged with a character from a Unit that is not Wounded.
• Heal – The affected character may remove one condition or one damage from its Unit or another allied Unit within Range 2.
• Active Ability – If it is this Unit's activation, the affected Unit may use one of its Active abilities without paying its Force cost. Remember that Units may only use each of their Active abilities a maximum of once per Turn. When Active effects appear in a chosen Combat Tree Option, they are resolved after all Directed effects have been resolved and the Damage pool has been applied to the defending character.

The Damage Pool

When a chosen Combat Tree Option or Attack Expertise Chart Entry has damage icons in it, the defending character's Unit does not suffer that damage right away. Instead, 1 Damage token is placed next to the character's Unit Stat Card for each listed damage icon, forming the Damage Pool. After the attack is fully resolved, all damage in the Damage Pool is applied to the defending character's Unit. Special rules may modify or affect the Damage Pool before damage is applied to the defending character's Unit. Damage from attack Expertise Charts is added to the Damage Pool before the attacking player chooses their first Option. Damage from Combat Tree Options is added to the Damage Pool before the attacking player chooses their next Option.

Making an Attack

1. Declare an attack type: Ranged or Melee.
2. Check for eligible targets: In Range (for Ranged attacks) or Engaged (for Melee attacks) and in LOS.
3. Choose an eligible target (In Range or Engaged). A. The character that is making the attack is the attacker. The target of the attack is the defender. B. Resolve effects that trigger when a character is targeted, starting with the attacker.
4. Form initial dice pools. A. Attacker adds Attack Dice equal to its Attack stat. I. Resolve all effects that add dice to the attack roll. II. Resolve all effects that remove dice from the attack roll. B. Defender adds Defense Dice equal to its Defense stat. I. Resolve all effects that add dice to the defense roll. II. Resolve all effects that remove dice from the defense roll.
5. Roll initial dice. A. The dice roll is the current attack or defense pool.
6. Modify dice rolls. A. Modify the attack roll. I. The attacker adds or removes dice results, changes dice results, and rerolls dice in the attack roll. II. The defender adds or removes dice results, changes dice results, and rerolls dice in the attack roll. B. Modify the defense roll. I. The attacker adds or removes dice results, changes dice results, and rerolls dice in the defense roll. II. The defender adds or removes dice results, changes dice results, and rerolls dice in the defense roll.
7. Determine results. A. Remove 1 strike result from the attack roll for each block result in the defense roll. B. If any criticals or strikes remain in the attack roll, continue to step 8. If there are no remaining criticals or strikes, skip step 8 and continue to step 9.
8. The attacker has a number of successes equal to the number of remaining critical and strike results in the attack roll. Starting from one of the orange Options at the far left of the attacking character's Combat Tree, the attacker chooses a number of Options equal to the number of successes they have, applying all effects of the chosen Option before choosing the next one. See page 31 for information on using Combat Trees.
9. Apply all damage from the Damage Pool to the defending character.
10. Resolve all effects that happen after the attack is resolved. A. Attacker resolves any remaining effects from their Attack Expertise Chart. B. Defender resolves any remaining effects from their Defense Expertise Chart. C. Attacker resolves all of their abilities and special rules in the order of their choice. D. Defender resolves all of their abilities and special rules in the order of their choice. E. Resolve all non-player abilities and special rules in the order chosen by the attacking player.

Attack Example

Andrew decides to use Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More to attack Lord Maul using her lightsabers. First, Andrew checks to make sure Lord Maul is in Range of the attack. Since Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More is making a Melee attack and Lord Maul is at the same elevation and within the length of the Range 2 tool from Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More, Lord Maul can be targeted by the attack. There is nothing between the characters, so Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More has Line of Sight to Lord Maul.

Next, Andrew checks the Melee Attack stat on Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More's Active Stance, Jar'Kai. Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More has a Melee Attack stat of 7, so Andrew takes 7 Attack Dice and places them into his attack pool. In addition, Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More made a focus action during her activation, which gives Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More 1 more die on her next attack during her activation. Andrew puts 1 more die in his pool, bringing his final dice pool to 8.

Summer then checks the Melee Defense stat on Lord Maul's Active Stance, Dark Rage. Since Lord Maul's Melee Defense stat is 5, Summer takes 5 Defense Dice and puts them in her defense pool.

With both dice pools set, the players roll their dice. Andrew rolls three strikes, one critical, two attack expertise, and two failures.

Summer rolls her dice and gets one block, three defense expertise, and one failure.

Now, the players modify the results, starting with the attack roll. Andrew checks Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More's Expertise Chart for her lightsabers. Because he rolled two attack expertise results, Andrew adds two strike results to his roll. Summer checks Lord Maul's defense Expertise Chart, and notes that none of the entries modify the attack roll. Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More's final results are five strikes, a critical, and two failures.

Next, the players modify the results in the defense roll. Andrew checks Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More's Attack Expertise Chart, and notes that none of the entries modify the defense roll. Summer then checks Lord Maul's Defense Expertise Chart and adds a block result to her roll. Lord Maul's defense Expertise Chart also has entries for two Personal effects, Heal and Jump, which will be resolved later. Summer's final results are two blocks and one failure.

With all the dice pools modified, Andrew and Summer move on to determine the results of the attack. Lord Maul's two block results cancel two of Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More's strike results, leaving one critical and three strike results. The attack is successful.

Andrew consults Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More's Combat Tree to resolve the attack. Since he has a total of four successes remaining, he can choose four Options from the Combat Tree to resolve, following the paths on the Combat Tree. The first Option adds two damage to the Damage Pool. The second Option adds another damage to the Damage Pool and gives Lord Maul the Disarmed condition. Summer places 1 Disarmed token on Lord Maul's card. The third Option adds three more damage to the Damage Pool, increasing it to six. At the branch in Ahsoka Tano, Jedi No More's tree, Andrew decides to move along the upper path, choosing the Option that adds one damage to the Damage Pool and gives Lord Maul the Strained condition. Summer places a Strained token on Lord Maul's card and adds another damage to the Damage Pool for a total of seven.

After Andrew has finished choosing Options, the Damage Pool is applied to Lord Maul. Summer moves all the Damage tokens from the Damage Pool to Lord Maul's Unit Stat Card. Lord Maul has a Stamina of 11, and had not suffered any damage prior to this attack, so he is not Wounded.

After damage has been applied, Summer uses the Personal effects that were listed in Lord Maul's defense Expertise Chart Entries. Summer uses the Heal effect to remove the Strained condition from Lord Maul, then uses the Jump effect to move Lord Maul closer to the Active objective.

With the attack resolved, both players check to see if they want to use any Reactive abilities in response, starting with the attacker. Neither does, and they continue the game.

Damaging Units

There are many ways to damage characters and Units – abilities, attacks, and even missions may deal damage. When a character or Unit suffers damage, add Damage tokens to its Stat Card equal to the damage suffered.

Becoming Wounded

When a Unit has a number of Damage tokens equal to or greater than its Stamina, that Unit immediately becomes Wounded and gains a Wounded token. When a unit becomes Wounded, the opposing player adds 1 Momentum token to the Struggle Tracker in the next available space on their side of the Struggle Tracker moving toward the center. Wounded Units do not contest objectives. Wounded Units cannot suffer damage or have damage removed from them. If a Unit becomes Wounded during its activation, its activation immediately ends.

A Unit that has any number of Wounded tokens must spend 1 Force for each of their Wounded tokens as an additional cost to use an Active or Reactive ability.

Becoming Injured

At the beginning of a Wounded Unit's activation, it flips its Wounded token to the Injured side, removes all damage, and removes one condition.

A Unit that has any number of Injured tokens must spend 1 Force for each of their Injured tokens as an additional cost to use an Active or Reactive ability.

Remember that Units must spend 1 Force for each of their Wounded and Injured tokens as an additional cost to use an Active or Reactive ability.

Example: At the beginning of Bo-Katan Kryze's activation, she has eight damage, the Pinned and Exposed conditions, and a Wounded token. The player flips the Wounded token to the Injured side, removes all damage, and one condition. The player decides to remove the Pinned condition, but the Exposed condition remains on Bo-Katan Kryze.

Becoming Defeated

After a Unit's activation, if the Unit has Injured tokens equal to or exceeding its Durability, it is Defeated. All characters in a Defeated Unit are removed from the battlefield.

If the Defeated Unit's Order Card is outside of the Order Deck (such as in the Order Discard Pile, in reserve, or currently revealed), remove it from the game. Otherwise, when the Unit's Order Card is revealed from the Order Deck, remove it from the game and reveal the next card instead.

If a player reveals an Order Card that corresponds to a Defeated Unit, remove that card from the game and reveal a new Order Card.

Conditions

Some Combat Tree Options, Expertise Chart Entries, and abilities inflict conditions. When a rule instructs a character to gain a condition, the corresponding Condition token is placed on that character's Unit Stat Card. Conditions on a Unit Stat Card affect all characters in the Unit. If a Unit would gain a condition it already has, it suffers one damage instead. Below is a list of all the conditions and their effects on Units:

• Strained – When a character in this Unit advances, climbs, dashes, jumps, or when this Unit makes an action, makes an attack, or uses an Active or Reactive ability, after the effect is resolved, this Unit suffers 3 damage. Then, this Unit loses the Strained condition.
• Disarmed – While attacking, characters in this Unit cannot use attack expertise results. The next time a character in this Unit makes an attack roll, remove any Attack Dice with attack expertise results from the roll before modifying the dice rolls. After determining results, the Unit loses the Disarmed condition.
• Exposed – While defending, characters in this Unit cannot use defense expertise results. The next time a character in this Unit makes a defense roll, remove any Defense Dice with defense expertise results from the roll before modifying the dice rolls. After determining results, the Unit loses the Exposed condition.
• Pinned – The next time a character in this Unit would advance, dash, climb, or jump, it does not move. Then, this Unit loses the Pinned condition.

When a Unit or character gains a condition, place the relevant token on its Unit Stat Card. All characters in a Unit are affected by tokens on its corresponding Unit Stat Card.

Terrain

The battlefield that Shatterpoint is played on is made up of terrain features and terrain parts. Below, you will find the rules on how to address common terrain features and terrain parts, as well as some guidelines for how to assess terrain features.

Parts of terrain features are defined by three qualities: Elevation, Clear or Blocked, and Passable or Impassable. A single terrain feature may contain multiple parts that have different qualities than one another. Terrain features are as complex as the players' imaginations and may require some specific assessments as to which parts of a terrain feature have which qualities.

A terrain part is considered to be at a different Elevation from another object if the difference between the top of the terrain part and the object checking Elevation is larger than Range 2, measured vertically. To measure this, place the Range 2 tool flush with the same surface that the object checking Elevation is standing on, and compare the height of the terrain part to the tool.

A terrain part is considered to be at a different Elevation from another terrain part if the difference between the tops of the terrain parts is larger than Range 2, measured vertically. To measure this, place the Range 2 tool flush with the top surface of the first terrain part and compare the top of the second terrain part to the tool.

Example: Parts of terrain can have different combinations of qualities. In this example, the gantry is Clear and Passable, while the ladder is Clear and Impassable. The buildings are Blocked and Impassable. The array tower has multiple Elevations.

Elevation Relativity

Objects are at the same Elevation if the vertical distance between them is less than Range 2. Objects that have more than Range 2 in vertical distance between them are at different Elevations. When measuring this distance, measure from the location of the object at the height of the overlapped terrain part it is on top of or from the battlefield itself if the object is not overlapping a terrain part – the height of the object is not taken into account.

Example: Bo-Katan Kryze wants to advance toward the Mandalorian Super Commandos on this gantry. To check the Elevation of the gantry, the player places the Range 2 tool on the battlefield next to the character's base vertically and checks the height of the gantry. Because the top gantry is more than Range 2 higher than Bo-Katan Kryze's starting position, the gantry is at a higher Elevation and Bo-Katan Kryze cannot use an advance to move onto the gantry.

When determining Elevation, there is no difference between terrain parts with a difference in vertical distances of Range 2 or more. This means that characters can climb or jump any vertical distance when making these types of moves.

Parts of terrain features are either Clear or Blocked. Clear parts do not block Line of Sight. A gantry with a Passable area underneath would be a Clear part – characters can draw LOS and attack underneath the gantry without issue. A Blocked part – like a solid building or wall – would block characters from drawing Line of Sight and impede their ability to attack.

The last quality of terrain features is Passable or Impassable. Passable parts, such as the Gantry described above, do not stop characters from moving underneath or through the part. Impassable parts, like a solid building or a wall, prevent characters from moving through the part. They must go around, under, or over it!

Remember that each terrain feature may be made up of multiple terrain parts at different Elevations – A two story building with a balcony halfway up is an excellent example.

Ingress Points

Ingress Points can be represented in many ways – ladders and elevators are some common examples. An Ingress Point is a way for characters to quickly traverse vertical distance.

Ingress Points are connected to one another – usually as pairs, but there can be more than two Ingress Points connected to each other. Players should always discuss Ingress Points prior to the game to avoid confusion on which points are connected.

When a character would end an advance, climb, dash or jump within Range 1 and at the same elevation as an Ingress Point, they may choose to use it. If they do, put the character within Range 1 and at the same elevation as any other connected Ingress Point. A character that uses an Ingress Point must be put at a different elevation. After the character is put in the new location, the movement ends.

The top and bottom of a ladder are connected Ingress Points.

Line of Sight

A character has Line of Sight (LOS) to an object if a straight, unobstructed line can be drawn from any part of that character's base to the object. The line can pass unobstructed through characters, any Clear terrain parts, any Blocked terrain parts that the character is overlapping, and any Blocked terrain parts with the same or lower Elevation than that character. The line cannot pass through Blocked terrain features with a higher Elevation than the character. If the object is on top of a terrain part, the line can pass unobstructed through all terrain parts with the same or lower Elevation as the object.

When drawing Line of Sight, characters may always ignore Clear terrain parts regardless of the part's Elevation.

Hunker Tokens & Cover

A character benefitting from Cover adds a number of Defense Dice equal to their Cover value to their defense roll when defending against a Ranged attack.

For a character to gain Cover from a terrain feature, they must meet all of the following requirements:

• The character's Unit must have one or more Hunker tokens.
• The defending character must be within Range 1 of one or more terrain parts at the same or higher Elevation than the attacking character.
• A straight line can be drawn from any portion of the attacking character's base to any portion of the defending character's base through any number of those terrain parts.
• The attacking Character is using a Ranged attack.

If a character meets all the above requirements, they have Cover [1].

Units can also gain Cover from Hunker tokens. Each Hunker token a Unit has grants characters in that Unit Cover [1]. A Unit loses all its Hunker tokens at the start of its activation or when a character in that Unit becomes Engaged. A Unit that is Engaged cannot gain or have Hunker tokens.

Appendix A: Timing

If players attempt to use a Reactive ability at the same time, the active player declares and resolves their effects first.

If, at any point multiple effects occur simultaneously and the rules do not give instructions to their order, and no player is attacking, always start with the active player and continue in Turn order. After all player effects are resolved, resolve all non-player effects in the order chosen by the active player.

If a player is attacking, the attacking player resolves all effects, then the defending player, then any non-player effects in the order chosen by the attacking player.

If a player has multiple effects occurring simultaneously, they always choose the order of their own effects.

Here you will find a detailed, step-by-step breakdown of how to make an attack:

Making an Attack

(See the Making an Attack section above for the full step-by-step breakdown of the attack sequence, steps 1 through 10, which this Appendix repeats in full.)

Activating a Unit

(See the activation step-by-step breakdown in Game Mechanics – Playing the Game above, steps 1 through 4, which this Appendix repeats in full.)

Taking a Turn

(See the Turn step-by-step breakdown in Game Mechanics – Playing the Game above, steps 1 through 11, which this Appendix repeats in full.)

Appendix B: Keywords

Here you will find a list of all Keyword abilities and their rules.

• Immunity [X] – This Unit can't suffer the listed condition. If a Unit has a condition and gains Immunity to it, the Unit removes the condition.
• Impact [X] – When this character makes a focus action it adds X additional dice to its next Melee attack in addition to the 1 attack die added by the focus action.
• Protection – When this character is defending, before applying the Damage Pool, remove 1 damage from the Damage Pool.
• Scale – When this character would advance or dash it may climb instead.
• Sharpshooter [X] – When this character makes a focus action it adds X additional dice to its next Ranged attack in addition to the 1 attack die added by the focus action.
• Steadfast – When this character is defending, it is not moved by the first Shove effect from the attacking character's chosen Combat Tree Options.

Quick Reference

Turn Sequence

• Resolve effects that happen at the start of the Turn.
• Reveal an Order Card or choose the Unit Order Card in reserve.
• Activate Unit.
• The Unit's activation ends.
• Resolve effects that happen at the end of the Turn.
• Move the Struggle token. If it is the first Turn of the game, skip this step.
• Check if the Unit that just activated is Defeated.
• The active player's Turn is now over. If the player who just finished their Turn does not have any cards remaining in their Unit Order Deck or in reserve, they Refresh their Order Deck.

Attack Sequence

1. Declare an attack type – Ranged or Melee.
2. Check for eligible targets.
3. Form initial dice pools.
4. Roll initial dice.
5. Modify dice rolls.
6. Determine results.
7. Apply all damage.
8. Resolve all attack effects.

Icons

• Pinned, Exposed, Strained, Disarmed – condition icons.
• Heal, Character, Range, Advance, Dash, Jump, Climb, Hunker – token and stat icons.
• Active Ability, Reactive Ability, Innate Ability, Tactics Ability, Identity Ability – ability type icons.
• Melee, Ranged, Shove, Damage, Reposition, Force – effect and stat icons.

Dice Faces

• Attack Dice: Strike, Critical, Attack Expertise, Failure.
• Defense Dice: Block, Defense Expertise, Failure.