Symbols

– Hero

– Character

– Activate

– Shot

– Magical Shot

– Throwing

– Prosperity

– Class Building

– Armour

– Stealth

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… – Durability

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… Multiple Uses

– First Word

– Last Word

– Minion

– Healer

Dice

1-2

3-4

5-6

Basic Attributes

– Strength

– Movement

– Health

Abilitys

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-Х from attacks

-Х from attacks, passive ability, modifier — the creature receives X damage less from the current attack.
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Agile

Agile, passive ability — the creature cannot be a target for Backstab when leaves contact by movement or placement with one or more opponent’s creatures not moving or placing into contact with opponent’s creatures.
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Armour

Armour (

)Х, triggered ability — When the creature is summoned to the Battlefield, it receives X Armour tokens.
Armour token: Whenever a creature with Armour tokens receives damage from non-magical attack or Backstab, that creature loses 1 Armour token per 1 damage instead of receiving Wounds. If one attack deals more damage than Armour tokens the creature has, this damage removes all Armour tokens and the rest damage deals Wounds. If any card or ability gives +X Armour to the creature, it means that creature receives X Armour tokens.
Armour – unit ignores one

on the opponent’s dice roll in melee.
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Aura

Aura Х: [text], ability — all creatures, unless indicated otherwise, at a distance within X receive an ability or effect described in [text]. The source of Aura doesn’t receive the abilities that own Aura provides.
Aura X: [text] – [text] is applied at a distance within X hexes from the source of the Aura.
(Terrain) Aura: [text] – the efect afects the unit located within the X radius from the hex.
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B

Battle mage

Battle mage, passive ability — the creature can declare

(Magical Shot) even if it already moved during its activation.
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Beast

Beast, passive ability — the creature cannot be targeted by Control or any abilities of buildings.
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Berserk

Berserk Х, ability — while the creature is wounded (has Wound tokens on its card) it receives +X

(Strength).
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Blocks Line of Sight

Blocks Line of Sight, terrain ability — players cannot draw a Line of Sight through this terrain template.
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Blocks the Line of Sight

Blocks the Line of Sight – If the terrain is blocking the Line of Sight, it means that a Line of Sight (LoS) cannot be drawn through it.
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Brave

Brave – the unit ignores one

on the opponent’s dice.
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Buckshot

Buckshot, triggered ability — if

(Shooting) has dealt at least 1 damage and if the target is within M distance, the target creature is moved backward from the shooter at S distance along the line drawn from the centre of the attacker’s base to the centre of the target’s one. If it leaves a contact, it does not receive a Backstab. If a target of this shot cannot be moved for the full distance, it receives an additional 1 point of damage.
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Cautious

Cautious Х, passive ability — the creature with this ability must assign at least X dice into defense in melee combat, but no more than the creature’s

(Strength).
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Charge

Charge: [text], triggered ability — the creature gains [text] till the end of the current turn, if it moved before attacking in melee, once per turn.
Charge X – when the unit attacks in melee after movement, it has X additional dice for this attack, once per activation. Charge cannot be performed if the unit is attacking the enemy next to which it started moving.
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Concentration

Concentration Х, activated ability — when the creature is summoned to the Battlefield, it receives X Concentration tokens. The creature with Concentration has: “

 (Activate): gain 1 Concentration token”. The creature cannot have more than X Concentration tokens. You can spend the Concentration tokens anytime during your turn.
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Contract

Contract: [text], triggered ability — at the start of the activation of any creature with Contract, the active player can pay 1

(Prosperity point) and a creature will receive all effects indicated in [text] until end of the active player’s turn.
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Contract X

Contract X

triggered ability – At the beginning of this creature’s activation, you can pay X

[prosperity] to immediately fulfill the text.
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Control

Control Х, activated ability, impact — the character can take control of an opponent’s character or minion. Choose a target for Control within XL to the character taking into account the Line of Sight; roll X dice — if there is the same number of

(Bullseye) rolled as the current target’s health, you gain control of the target until the end of turn. You can activate this character or minion this turn.
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Counterblow

Counterblow – when the unit is attacked, it can make a defense roll even if it hasn’t declared Defense.
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Defender

Defender, ability — if an opponent’s creature declares attack in melee combat while in contact with the creature, it must select the creature as the target. If there are several creatures with this ability in contact with the attacker, it can choose which one to strike.
Defender – if an enemy unit announces a melee attack on your unit which is next to the unit with this ability, you can redirect the attack to this unit
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Defense against shooting

Defense against shooting, terrain ability — if a creature is currently standing in contact with the terrain template with this ability and becomes the target of ranged attack, or that template is on the Line of Sight, the owning player can reroll any failed rolls to defend against

(Shot) or

(Throwing) one time per each successful ranged attack. In case of a

(Magical Shot), the creature receives a single defense die, as if it were a target of

(Shot), following standard ranged attack rules.
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Difficult target

Difficult target, ability — when performing a ranged attack against a target with this ability, the attacker must reroll all successful hits.
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Difficult terrain

Difficult (Difficult terrain), terrain ability — if a creature without Flight touches the template of this terrain during movement, its movement distance decreases to S. Creatures that already have a movement distance of S are not slowed down by difficult terrain. Running through such terrain is not possible. If a creature has already moved beyond S distance before touching the terrain template, it must immediately stop upon contact. If a creature starts its turn in Difficult terrain, its movement distance is S until the end of its activation.
Difficult Terrain — when a unit enters a Difficult Terrain hex from a different terrain type, it must end its activation immediately.
If a unit without the Flight ability uses the Run rule, it can enter the Difficult Terrain using Stamina.
Units with the Flight ability can freely cross hexes with Difficult Terrain, but if they end their movement in such a hex, they immediately terminate their activation.
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Disease

Disease, triggered ability, indicated by Disease token — the creature receives 1 Wound if declares attack; at the start of its activation, it can skip its activation to lose Disease.
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Dominance

Dominance – when the unit attacks, the

it rolled is always considered successful.
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Drill

Drill, triggered ability — when the character is summoned to the Battlefield, you can summon a minion of your faction into contact with each of your creatures with Drill
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Durability Х

Durability (

) Х, relic ability — when a relic with Durability is played, it receives X Armour tokens. Any non-magical attack at the hero deals damage first to relics with this effect. When the relic no longer has Armour tokens, it is destroyed and the hero loses all its effects.
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E

Enchantment

Enchantment (Spell type) passive ability – Place this card next to the object of enchantment. Enchantment remains in play until the enchanted object leaves the Battlefield.
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Executioner

Executioner: [text], triggered ability — if the creature enters the Battlefield or the previous victim is eliminated, the creature can choose a character to be its victim: When attacking its victim, the character gains [text] until the end of attack.
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Exhaustion

Exhaustion X: [text], triggered ability — at the start of the creature’s activation, you can deal it 1 Wound to gain [text].
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Expert of Attack

Expert of Attack X, triggered ability — if a creature assigns all available dice to attack in melee combat, it receives additional X attack dice.
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Expert of Defense

Expert of Defense X, triggered ability — if a creature assigns all available dice to defense in melee combat, it receives additional X defense dice.
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First word

First word (

): [text], triggered ability — when the card is played, [text] must be immediately applied.
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Flight

Flight (Flying), ability — the creature can ignore obstacles when moving across the Battlefield, including other creatures and terrains. Creatures with this ability still can’t end their movement in Impassable areas.
Flight – the unit can move ignoring obstacles. And run into Difficult Terrain without getting a Fatigue token. If a unit with Flight stops its movement at a certain terrain, it can use its properties. This unit cannot stop its movement on hexes of other units and impassable terrain.
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Forged

Forged, passive ability – Forged cannot be healed and cannot gain Poison or Disease. Creatures with Vampirism cannot be healed if deals wounds to Forged.
Forged– When the unit is under attack, it ignores all

on the opponent’s dice roll. The Vampirism and Marauder abilities do not affect this unit.
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Formation

Formation – if the defending unit is in contact with two or more allied units, it ignores one for every two allied units. The same is true for the attacking unit if the defending unit has a Defense Token, Counterblow, or any other opportunity to roll the defense dice
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Fortitude

Fortitude, ability — creatures with this ability always hit its target in melee when rolling

(Axe) or

(Shield) whether they are wounded or not.
Fortitude– the unit cannot be Weak
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Hammerblow

Hammerblow, ability — when attacking in melee combat, every successful hit deals 2 points of damage.
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Healer Х

Healer (

) Х, activated ability, impact — when activating, choose a target, roll X dice and remove as many Wound tokens as there are successful rolls. In contact with the target,

(Axe) and

(Shield) are considered successful rolls. If a target is away at a distance within XL, only rolled

(Bullseye) results are considered successful.
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Healing

Healing (Heal) Х, activated or triggered ability, impact — remove X Wound tokens from a target of healing. If there are less Wounds than the ability can heal, they all are removed and a creature is considered fully healed. Healing cannot be declared if the target of Healing doesn’t have Wounds or if there is any factor that restricts Healing.
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Horde

Horde – When attacking in melee combat with “Support”, gains a

for each supporting unit
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Howl

Howl X: [text], activated ability — all creatures within X receive an ability or effect described in [text] unless otherwise stated. Effects of Howl last until the end of turn, if [text] doesn’t imply a different option. The source of Howl cannot receive these benefits.
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Impassable

Impassable, terrain ability — creatures without Flight cannot cross this type of terrain when moving. The creatures cannot be placed on Impassable terrain template.
Impassable(terrain) – units cannot cross or end their movement on Impassable terrain
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Infantry

Infantry, passive ability – you can put up to 6 copies of the Сharacter card with the same name with the Infantry ability in your deck.
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Initiative

Initiative, ability — players assign their

(Strength) dice following common rules. The creature with Initiative strikes first. Its target can defend as normal, but it attacks second and will not attack if it is killed by this creature with Initiative. If both combatants have Initiative, melee combat occurs according to common rules.
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Inspiration

Inspiration, passive ability – If a creature with Masterpiece is activated within its

[Speed], it can roll only 1 dice, then choose any effect where there is a rolled value.
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Jump

Jump, passive ability — when moving, the creatures can ignore other creatures on the Battlefield. The Jump can take place only in a straight line at any distance no more than the creature’s

(Movement). The creature can’t finish its movement on other creatures.
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Last word

Last word (

), triggered ability — must be applied once the already played character or support card goes to the Graveyard.
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Lunge

Lunge, passive ability — the creature can declare melee combat within S distance away from its target if it’s possible to draw Line of Sight between the attacker and the target. If during this attack the target is not in contact with the attacker, the target should assign all of its

(Strength) dice to defense only.
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Magical Shot

Magical Shot – calculated in the same way as a regular Shooting, except that the enemy unit cannot defend against this attack. Therefore, during Magical Shot, the attacking player rolls the dice and all the damage is dealt immediately.
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Magical Shot Х

Magical Shot (

)Х, activated ability — a magical ranged attack within XL distance, that allows you to roll X dice. The dice of Magical Shot are considered successful if

(Bullseye) is rolled. The target of Magical Shot cannot defend itself, so each successful die instantly becomes a successful hit dealing 1 Wound each.
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Magical Strike

Magical Strike Х, magical melee attack — magic melee attack. The creature can declare it to a creature in contact, after the creature’s movement or not moving during its activation. When performing Magical Strike, you roll X dice. Dice are considered successful if

(Axe) or

(Shield) are rolled. If the attacker already has Wounds and doesn’t have Fortitude ability, only

(Shield) are considered successful. Each successful Magical Strike die deals 1 wound. The target of Magical Strike cannot defend itself.
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Marauder

Marauder– when the unit deals damage, it loses one Fatigue token, once per attack.
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Master of Attack

Master of Attack Х, ability — the creature can reroll up to X different dice that it assigned to attack in melee combat.
Master of Attack X– when the unit attacks in melee, it can reroll X dice of the player’s choice.
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Master of Defense

Master of Defense Х, ability — the creature can reroll up to X different dice that it assigned to defense in melee combat.
Master of Defense  X– when the unit defends against melee or ranged attacks, it can reroll X dice of the player’s choice.
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Master of Healing

Master of Healing Х, ability — the creature can reroll up to X different dice that it used for healing.
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Master of Magic

Master of Magic Х, passive ability — the creature can reroll up to X different dice that it used for a

(Magical Shot).
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Master of Ritual

Master of Ritual Х, passive ability — the creature can reroll up to X unsuccessful dice that it used for Ritual.
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Master of Shooting

Master of Shooting Х, passive ability — the creature can reroll up to X different dice that it used for a

(Shooting) or

(Throwing).
Master of Shooting X – when the unit performs a ranged attack, it can reroll X dice of the player’s choice.
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Masterpiece

Masterpiece, triggered ability – At the beginning of the activation, if there is another creature within

[Speed], a creature can roll 2 dice.

/

 – deal 1 damage to a creature within

[Speed].

/

 – gain 1

.

/

 – Heal a creature within

[Speed] by 1.
All other combinations are a failure.
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Monster

Monster, passive ability — cannot be healed; cannot be returned to hand; cannot be brought under control; cannot search ruins; cannot be affected by any effects of support cards.
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Multiple Attack

Multiple Attack – When the unit performs a Multiple Attack, it attacks against each enemy unit in contact in turn. It may get the Fatigue token and +1

until the end of the turn. The player chooses in which order to attack enemy units. During and after the Multiple Attack you cannot perform Advance. If the attacking unit panics, the Multiple Attack is interrupted. A Multiple Attack counts as one attack for all effects, such as Marauder and Vampirism.
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Multiple uses Х

Multiple uses (

) Х, relicability — Every time you use Multiple Uses ability, mark it. Once the number of marks equals the number of initial Multiple Uses of the relic, this relic is discarded and all of its bonuses are no longer applied.
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Necromancy

Necromancy – when the unit destroys an enemy unit, you can summon a Zombie Warriors conscript unit under your control to its hex.
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Parasite

Parasite Х, triggered ability — whenever the creature eliminates a character, roll X dice: If at least 1

(Bullseye) is rolled, summon a minion of your faction into contact with the eliminated character before removing it from the Battlefield.
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Pathfinder

Pathfinder, passive ability — the creature ignores Difficult terrain ability.
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Persecution

Persecution Х, triggered ability — when the creature eliminates an opponent’s creature, the creature can declare another attack in melee combat, X times per your turn. The creature can move within S into contact with another opponent’s creature before each of these additional attacks.
Persecution X – having performed the Advance, the unit can declare another melee attack. After the Advance, the unit can move additional X hexes. While using Persecution, the unit cannot return to the same hex from which it declared the first attack, and cannot move to a hex from which it cannot declare melee combat, cannot perform it while moving over the Difficult Terrain. The unit can perform Persecution once per turn.
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Poison

Poison, triggered ability, indicated by Poison token — at the start of the creature’s activation, roll a dice: on

(Bullseye) the creature receives 1 Wound. The creature with Poison has: “

 (Activate): lose Poison”.
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Predator

Predator, triggered ability — if the creature enters melee combat with a wounded opponent’s creature, the creature gains +1

(Strength) until the end of melee combat.
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Quick

Quick, passive ability — the creature can declare melee combat after using ability of Run.
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Quick shooter

Quick shooter, ability — a creature can declare

(Shooting) or

(Throwing) even if it moved in its turn, if Run was not used.
Quick Shooter– the unit can declare Range Attack after moving, but not after running.
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Rain of Arrows

Rain of Arrows, triggered ability — whenever the creature declares

(Shooting), the target character gains -1

(Strength) until the end of the opponent’s turn. The effect cannot be accumulated.
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Ranger

Ranger – the unit ignores the Difficult Terrain ability. If this unit attacks, the enemy unit on a certain terrain doesn’t receive bonuses from it.
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Reckless

Reckless Х, passive ability — in melee combat, this creature must assign at least X dice into attack, but no more than its

(Strength) value. If the creature is in melee combat again during the opponent’s turn, after the first attack it must assign all its dice to defense.
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Recruitment

Recruitment, activated ability — when a building is constructed in your city zone, you can summon a minion of your faction into contact with each of your creatures with Recruitment.
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Regeneration

Regeneration Х, triggered ability — at the start of its activation roll X dice. This creature is healed by 1 for each rolled

(Bullseye).
Regeneration – at the beginning of the unit’s activation, it restores 1 miniature or heals 1 wound.
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Regroup

Regroup – when the unit is attacked, it can replace one point of damage with Panic. Only if it can retreat.
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Requiem

Requiem, triggered ability — when the character dies, before the miniature is removed from the Battlefield, roll a die individually for each other creature within S from it: On

(Axe) or

(Shield) that creature receives 1 Wound.
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Resurgent

Resurgent, passive ability — Resurgent cannot be healed and cannot gain Poison or Disease. Creatures with Vampirism cannot be healed if they deal Wounds to Resurgent.
Resurgent –

deal damage instead of Panic to that unit. The Formation works as usual. The Vampirism and Marauder abilities do not
affect this unit.
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Ritual

Ritual X, activated ability — roll X dice, if at least one

(Bullseye) is rolled, summon one minion of your faction into contact with the creature.
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Rush

Rush, triggered ability — the creature can be activated right away after being summoned to the Battlefield, only in your turn.
Rush – if there are at least 1

rolled during the attack, it moves the target 1 hex towards the direction of the attack; if the target cannot move, it receives 1 wound instead. If the unit panics, instead of the above, its retreat distance is increased by 1.
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Shield against

Shield against [text], ability — the creature cannot be the targeted by [text].
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Shield Strike

Shield Strike, passive ability — Each

(Shield) on the creature’s attack die blocks 1 additional damage.
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Shooting

Shot/Shooting

) Х, activated ability — non-magical ranged attack within XL distance and with a Line of Sight that allows you to roll X dice. Dice of Shooting are considered successful if

(Bullseye) is rolled. The target of Shooting can defend itself by rolling the same number of dice as the number of successful dice the shooter rolled. Each successful hit deals 1 damage.
Shooting – The shot is performed at the distance of the shooting distance range indicated in the unit’s card. The shooting distance is indicated by two numbers. The base shooting range is indicated by the first number and can be performed without any penalties. After checking the LoS, the Range Attack is performed according to the general rules for melee attacks. Except that the attacking player determines the number of their dice for Range Attack using their unit’s Range Attack stat.
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Slow

Slow, ability — a creature with this ability cannot use Run.
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Sniper

Sniper, triggered ability — a creature with this ability can reroll any of its

(Shooting) dice when shooting at the distance of L and more. At the same time, each successful hit when

(Shooting) at this distance deals 2 points of damage.
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Stamina

Stamina, ability — the creature can assign its melee combat dice into attack no matter how many melee combats it was engaged in.
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Stealth

Stealth (

), activated ability — allows to receive a Stealth token. For this, the creature with Stealth ability should activate not being in contact with the opponent’s creatures and not being a target for ranged attacks at the previous turn of the opponent.
Stealth token: When a creature with Stealth is summoned to the Battlefield, it gains a Stealth token. The creature with a Stealth token is considered hidden and cannot be targeted by attacks or abilities of the opponent’s creatures, but still can be targeted by support cards. The creature cannot have more than one Stealth token.
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Steam Engine

Steam Engine: [text], triggered ability — is triggered when the creature declares an ability or effect indicated in [text], once per turn. The player must roll a die for Steam Engine and carry out [text] before doing the ability or effect itself. If the creature gains a bonus from Steam Engine, that bonus lasts until the end of turn.
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Sting

Sting: [text], passive ability — when the creature declares attack on a creature without Poison, the attacked creature gains Poison. When the creature declares attack on a creature with Poison, the creature with Sting gains [text] until the end of attack.
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Survivable

Survivable – when the unit is attacked, it cannot lose more than two models or receive more than two wounds in one attack.
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Terrifying

Terrifying– when the unit attacks in melee, it has 1 extra

result added to its roll.
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Throwing X

Throwing (

) Х, activated ability — non-magical ranged attack that can be declared on a target within L distance and within Line of Sight, allows you to roll X dice. Dice of Throwing are considered successful if

(Axe) or

(Shield) are rolled. The target of Throwing can defend itself by rolling the same number of dice as the number of successful dice the thrower rolled. Each successful hit deals 1 damage.
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Vampirism

Vampirism, triggered ability — when the creature deals Wounds in melee combat, it can be healed by 1.
Vampirism – when the unit deals damage, it restores 1 miniature or heals 1 wound, once per battle. The feature is triggered after damage is dealt, but before determining which squad died and which panicked.
Vampirism restores 1 miniature, even if there are no miniatures left in the squad after counting the losses. Damage received by the enemy unit in the panic process does not count as damage dealt.
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Veteran

Veteran, passive ability — when attacking a creature with Veteran in melee combat, the attacker must reroll all successful dice results.
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Vision

(Nothing blocks LoS for this creature.) Instead of activating the Malachron, you may play a spell card for free.
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Vulnerability

Vulnerability, passive ability — when receiving damage, the creature receives 1 extra damage.
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