Small World Underground

Place the underground board in the center of the table. Shuffle the people/special power combinationsand lay them out in a line, visible to all. Each player chooses a combination and takes the corresponding tokens. The relicsand special placesare placed on the designated regions of the board, ready to be conquered and activated during the game.

In turn, each player organizes their troops to conquer adjacent territories. To succeed in a conquest, they must commit enough tokens to overpower the forces in place, including neutral defenders. Once established, a people can continue to expand, strengthen their positions, or confront other players. As time goes on, peoples become too numerous to remain effective: a player can decide to make them declineand choose a new combination, at the cost of giving up immediate expansion.

The challenge is to make the most of special powers combined with the board configuration and opposing actions, while skillfully managing the exhaustion of one's forces.

The game takes place over a set number of rounds. At the end of the last round, each player totals their victory points earned based on the territories controlled. The player with the highest number of pointswins the game. A relative defeat occurs when your people fail to hold or conquer enough territories to compete with opposing scores.