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A unit consists of 1 or more figures. When a unit attacks, each of its figures will fire; units with more figures will therefore deal more damage. Conversely, units with more figures are exponentially harder to kill; when being attacked each figure is a separate target and a figure is only killed when it takes an amount of damage equal to its hitpoints in a single damage step. A unit can continue to perform orders until it loses all its figures.

There are seven types of units: Militia, Rifleman, Gunner, Sapper, Tank, Settler, and Zeppelin.

Move

All units can be given a move order. Move orders are separated into move steps, with each step taking the unit from one space to an adjacent space. The amount of steps a unit can take during a single action phase is limited by its movement speed. If the unit does not completes its move order, it will continue its path on subsequent turns.

If a ground unit moves onto a snowed tile or starts its turn on a snowed tile, its movement speed is reduced by 1 for that turn. This slow effect does not stack with itself. If a non-mechanical ground unit moves onto a Trenches tile, it must stop moving unless it is bypassing a unit already on that tile.

Active Attack

A unit that can attack will automatically perform an active attack when attempting to move into a space that is occupied by an enemy ground unit. Each figure of the attacking unit will fire in a single targeted damage step with the enemy unit as the target. If the targeted ground unit survives and can attack, it will perform a reactive attack.

Reactive Attack

If a unit that can attack survives an active or focussed attack, it will retaliate. Each figure of the retaliating unit will fire in a single targeted damage step with the unit that performed the active attack as the target.

Bypass Move

If a ground unit wants to move to a space that is occupied by another friendly ground unit, it can bypass that unit on the condition that it will not stop moving before it reaches an unoccupied space. As long as its movement speed is high enough, a unit can bypass multiple friendly units.

Bypass Attack

If a unit has enough movement speed to bypass a unit and reach the next space, but this space is occupied by an enemy unit, it can perform a bypass attack; in this case it bypasses the friendly unit, performs an active attack (which might trigger a reactive attack), and then moves back to the space it came from. Units can only bypass a single unit when performing a bypass attack.

If the bypass attack is followed by a reactive attack, the bypassed unit will provide a single figure for that reactive attacks's targeted damage step, unless the bypasssed unit is entrenched.

Attack of Opportunity

If there are any hostile ground units in adjacent spaces as a ground unit starts to move, the moving unit is subject to an attack of opportunity. Only enemy units that have an attack are considered hostile in this case. Before the move is completed, a single targeted damage step is started with each of the adjacent enemy ground units as attackers and the moving unit as the target. If the moving unit is dead at the end of this damage step, it fails to move.

Units that are bypassing another unit are not subject to attacks of opportunity.

Focus

All units that can attack have the Focus ability. If a unit has been given a Focus order targeting a space and that space contains an enemy ground unit, it will start a focussed attack on that unit. If the targeted space is empty, the unit will not move.

Focussed Attack

When a unit starts a focussed attack, it will be joined by all ground units owned by the same player in spaces adjacent to the target space. All those units will fire in a single targeted damage step, with the focussed unit as its sole target.

If the focussed unit survives and can attack, it will perform a reactive attack on the unit that started the focussed attack.

Lockdown

The Gunner unit has the Lockdown ability. If a unit has been given a Lockdown order targeting a space and that space contains an enemy ground unit, it will perform an active attack on that unit. Either way, the Gunner unit will remain in lockdown mode on that space for the remainder of the action phase.

Lockdown mode

When a moving unit enters a space targeted by a unit in lockdown mode, all hostile units in lockdown mode targeting that space fire upon it in a single targeted damage step, with the moving unit as its sole target.

If the moving unit survives, it ends its turn immediately without retaliating.

Capture

Certain units can capture enemy tiles, which is very useful in non-destructive strategies. A unit with a single figure can immediately capture any tile regardless of the number of buildings that tile has. All player-owned tiles can be captured, including Soil and Crops tiles.

Stop

All units can be given a Stop order. A unit that is given the Stop order will not act on its own during its turn, but will still take part in reactive attacks, focussed attacks and attacks of opportunity as normal.

Stop orders may be useful if you wish to cancel a previously given move order.