Heroball Handbook
Heroball is the quickstart version of Godball for 2-4 players. If you wish to see a component list and the full rules, see the Godball Handbook for more information.
Objective
The object of Heroball is to run or throw the ball into your goal area. If you run the ball in, you get 2 points. If the ball enters your scoring area for any other reason, you get 1 point. The highest score at the end of 12 rounds wins.
Board Setup
Each player chooses a hero and a god (Not Hermes. Ever since ‘the incident’, Hermes has been excluded from Heroball).
Each player takes:
Your hero token (with your hero’s picture).
A hero mat
Your hero cards, and hero and god placards.
The 3-hex goal tile and scoring tracker with your god’s icon.
5 tracking tokens
Place your hero and god placard on your hero mat in the appropriate spots. Place the action cards from your hero deck face up (hero name showing) in the appropriate slots of your hero mat. The cards should cover the action listed on the hero mat. Place 1 tracking token on your AP track in space labeled ‘4’.
To set up the board, place the center post tile onto the center hex of the board, as marked. Place the godball token on the center post tile, the round marker on Round 1, tracking tokens in each player’s color on the 0 box of the score track.
Place the 6 Pillar of Heaven tiles onto the spaces marked for them on the board.
Place your heroes in the outer starting spots as evenly spaced as possible. (i.e. 2 heroes take opposite sides, 3 heroes form a triangle, 4 heroes fill all but two opposite corners).
Determine the order of play: Decide who goes first (or start with the youngest player). Players take turns, and play proceeds clockwise around the table.
Seed Terrain
As the final part of setup, each player takes two terrain tokens of their favored terrain type. Starting with the first player, each player in turn order places one of their terrain tokens on the board. Seed terrain can be placed anywhere except under heroes, or on another tile. Repeat with the second token.
On Your Turn
1st: Refresh Phase Your hero gains 1 AP on your AP track. In addition, ALL heroes remove any tracking tokens from action slots or cards on their mat.
2nd: Action Phase Activate your hero’s actions by deducting the cost of each desired action on your AP tracker and following the instructions on the card or slot. You may take as many actions as you like, in whatever order you like, as long as they are available to you and you have enough AP for them.
3rd: Clean Up Phase If you spent 0 AP during your turn, rest and gain 1 AP on your AP track. Then make sure there is nothing left to resolve.
Play then passes clockwise and the three phases repeat with the next player.
After all heroes have taken their turn, move the round tracker up one round before continuing play. At the conclusion of the 12th round, the game is over, and the highest score wins. If there is a tie, victory is shared!
The Hero
Your hero is represented by a hero token and a hero mat.
The Hero Token The hero is represented on the board by a hero token. A hero token that is in a hex is said to occupy that hex. Only 1 hero may occupy a hex at a time.
The Hero Mat In front of you is your hero’s mat, consisting of your mat, hero placard and god placard. The most important parts of the mat are:
* Action Slots All of the actions available to your hero are detailed around the outside of your mat. (See Actions, next section.)
* Action Cards Your hero has cards for actions that only your hero has. These cards are placed over the corresponding slots on the mat, and the actions on them supercede the base action on the mat.
* AP Track Action points (AP) are the fuel for your hero. All actions have an associated AP cost, representing the exertion required to perform your heroic deeds. AP are easy to spend and slow to return, so manage them carefully.
* Favored Terrain Your favored terrain is a boon granted by your god. Actions involving terrain will generally be easier or cheaper when it involves your favored terrain.
Actions
Actions are how your hero does things. Actions cost AP to activate. If you cannot afford the cost, you may not take that action.
When you activate a hero action, first deduct the cost from your current AP total on your AP track. Then do what it says on the card or slot, following the instructions for what conditions allow you to activate the action and how to resolve it. If a card says place a tracking token on it, place the token after resolving the action. This indicates the action is spent and cannot be taken again until the token is removed.
Reactions are the only actions that can be activated on another player’s turn.
Movement Actions
Step, Run, Sprint Each of these actions allows your hero to move 1 hex in any direction. A hero may not move into a hex that is occupied or a hex that contains a pillar of heaven. These actions may only be used once per round on your own turn only.
You must take a step action before you can run, and you must run before you can sprint. There may be an additional hex cost associated with taking these actions.
Hex Cost The hex cost is the cost to move into a particular hex. Usually this cost is 0. But if the destination hex contains terrain, the hero must pay +1 AP in addition to the cost of the movement action.
If the terrain is that hero’s favored terrain, the cost is instead -1 AP for that hex. This means that a hero may step or run into a hex with their favored terrain for 0 AP, and sprint into favored terrain for 1 AP.
Moving Towards and Moving Away Towards and away are terms that have very specific meanings. When moving towards a target hex, each hex of movement must reduce the total distance to reach the target hex by 1. When moving away, each hex of movement must increase the total distance between the 2 hexes by 1.
Attack Actions
Push The push action allows you to move an adjacent opponent 1 hex away from you.
You cannot push an opponent into an occupied hex. If there is no valid destination hex, you cannot push.
Force Fumble The force fumble action causes an adjacent opponent to fumble an object they hold. If successful, you will place the object in any unoccupied hex adjacent to that hero.
Objects
Objects are items your hero can manipulate. The primary object is the Godball itself.
Holding Objects If a hero holds an object, place it on the hero’s token. A hero may only hold 1 object at a time. Held objects move with the hero.
A hero may share a hex with objects without holding them, and multiple objects may share a hex.
On your own turn, if your hero shares a hex with an object, you may choose to hold it at any time at no cost.
On another player’s turn, if an object enters your hero’s hex, you may choose to hold that object immediately.
If you are already holding an object and you choose to hold a different object, you must first drop the one you are holding. (see Object Actions).
Object Actions
Throw If you are holding an object you may throw it up to 2 hexes away from you.
Drop You may drop a held object into your own hex or an adjacent hex.
Reactions
Defend This cancels an attack action made against you. The attacker loses the spent AP, but they may choose to attack you again with the same action, paying the action cost again.
Intercept If an object is thrown, dropped, or fumbled, heroes adjacent to the target hex may choose to intercept. You cannot intercept an object if you were the one to drop, throw, or fumble it.
If you intercept, you immediately hold the object, dropping any previously held object.
If multiple heroes wish to intercept the ball, then priority goes to:
* 1st: Any hero in the target hex.
* 2nd: The hero closest to the thrower/dropper/fumbler.
* 3rd: The next hero in turn order after the active hero.
Only the hero who intercepts the object pays the AP cost.
Scoring
If you enter your one of your goal hexes while holding the Godball, you get 2 points. If the Godball enters one of your goal hexes for any other reason, you get 1 point.
Record points on the scoring track. Return the Godball to the center spot. The active player's turn immediately enters the clean-up phase, and play continues.Statistics: Posted by Mike — Tue Aug 13, 2019 8:38 am
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