Tulendor

Strongholds

Short version. Tap 🎓 How To — walkthrough in the ☰ menu to be shown each of these on your own board.

Tap a unit to take command of it — its action bar appears. Tap the stack again to cycle through it.
Cyan is where it can walk. Red is what it can strike.
Tap a far hex to set a 🎯 travel order — it marches there on its own, day after day.
Tap an enemy to attack it, near or far. It stops where you pointed; it never chases.
⚡ On Duty (☰ Views → Units) lists everything under orders. Tap a row to fly straight to it.

Cultivate the hexes around your Strongholds. That is where every resource comes from.
Protect your Builders — you have very few, and they are what claim ground.
Build buildings with your resources. Each hall opens creatures, lore or defence.
Trade at once, or set a standing order and the market works for you every day.
Resources are harvested once a day, at dawn. How long a day runs depends on the rank you chose — 75 seconds at Squire, up to 170 at King.
Settlers found new Strongholds on open land, four or more hexes from any other.
Land changes hands two ways only: a Builder works it, or the Stronghold holding it falls.
Keep your land in one piece — a whole realm earns more than the same ground in scattered islands.

Your Avatar travels disguised as an ordinary wanderer.
Find the other Avatars — they may be disguised too. Walk up to a "traveller" you cannot recruit and the mask comes off.
A Scout beside one unmasks it. Travelling with a 🎻 Bard, 🧺 Pedlar or ⛪ Pilgrim hides you from Scouts.
🔮 Scry from a Mage Spire or Dread Tower to narrow down where a rival Avatar walks.
🎭 True form drops the disguise: every attack of the kin you have tamed — but every court then knows you.

Fire melts Frost, Shadow devours Life, Earth smothers Fire and Storm.
😎 Sway a foe mid-battle and it joins you instead of dying. A badly wounded one listens hardest.
🔗 Link units to travel and fight as one formation — three of each makes the next.
🛡 Fortify to dig in and heal. Raise a Palisade on worked land to make it hard to take.
Barbarian raiders and wild beasts hunt undefended fields and lone units.

Stand your Avatar on an Ancient Ruin to descend into it.
Beasts are awake and wandering the room. Come inside one's nose and it turns and hunts you step for step — ❗ is a beast that has your scent.
Finish without a kill for the 👻 Unseen bonus. Fall down there and the Age is lost with you.

Capture an Avatar and take over their realm — every hex and stronghold passes to you.
Or take over all of their strongholds. Either way wins the game.
You lose if your Avatar is captured, or your last Stronghold falls. There is no time limit.

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