OBJECTIVE

EVL is a territory capture game played on an unusual board of heptagons (7-sided) and pentagons (5-sided), using a stacking and unstacking mechanism.

The first player to capture 10 (or 12) pentagons wins the game.

THE BOARD

The board is made up of four (4) rows of heptagons surrounding 18 pentagons.

GAME PLAY

The board begins empty. Each player chooses a color. Black goes first.

On their turn, a player must either:

^ place one piece from your hand onto the board

^^ on any empty space

^^ on an occupied space containing a piece or stack that you control

^^^^ legal stacks are a maximum of four pieces high

^^^^ the color on the top of a stack controls the stack

^ unstack a stack of pieces that you control

Pentagons can only be captured by the active player on an unstack, not by placing.

STACKS

A stack consists of 2-4 pieces, stacked on top of one another. Stacks are created by placing one piece on top of one or more pieces that are already on the board. You cannot create a stack taller than four (4) pieces in height. The player who occupies the top of the stack controls the stack.

UNSTACKING

To unstack, pick up the entire stack (a single piece is not a stack). You may move the stack up to a number of spaces equal to its height. With the exception of the space the stack occupied at the start of the turn; whenever a stack exits a space, it leaves behind exactly one piece from the bottom of the stack.

The stack height limit can be temporarily violated during an unstacking, but at the end of the turn no stack may be taller than four (4). In effect, this makes a stack of four an impassable wall, since there is no way to unstack over it without increasing its height.

Unstacking occurs via connected heptagons. You cannot jump over pentagons while unstacking.

Unstacking does not need to be straight along a row (but you may not reverse direction and double back on the same path).

CAPTURING PENTAGONS

The goal of EVL is to capture the most pentagons. Pentagons are captured by “surrounding” them with your pieces on any two *non-adjacent* heptagons.

You can only capture pentagons with an unstack, *not by placing a piece*.

Note: You do not lose a pentagon if you move a piece away and no longer surround it. Your marker stays until your opponent takes it from you. However, you cannot hold a pentagon just because you still have pieces surrounding it. An opponent can take it if they surround it with an unstack on their turn.

WINNING

The first player to capture (and keep) 10 pentagons wins the game! You can play to 12 for variety.

RARE SITUATIONS
If you run out of tokens, you must unstack on your turn.

If a player can neither place a piece or unstack, the game ends immediately. The player with the most pentagons captured wins.

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2020-05-08T22:55:21Z

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Official Website and Full Rules Here: [http://www.nxsgame.com/tutorial.html]

NXS is pronounced "nexus"

'''Brief rules:'''

Each piece represents a sailing ship.

[[File:4-2.jpg|250px]]

'''Turn'''

Each turn you will:

Select ANY piece and '''Move''' OR '''Capture'''.

Select ANY piece and '''Rotate'''.

'''Moving'''

Pieces can move in the direction of their arrows

They can move as far as their number of dots

A piece cannot move through another piece

Pieces can move in a straight line in the direction of their arrows. They can move as many spaces as they have dots. Note that pieces must maintain their original facing as they move. You cannot rotate a piece as it moves.

'''Capturing'''

Pieces capture by making a diagonal jump in the direction of their marked corners

NXS pieces have some of their corners marked with bold lines. These lines represent an attack direction. The captured piece is removed from the board and replaced with the capturing piece. The capturing piece maintains its orientation (do not rotate pieces when capturing).

[[File:42_cap.jpg|200px]]

[[File:capture1.jpg|480px]]

In the game interface, when you click on your piece the hexes will be highlighted in yellow to indicate legal moves and red to indicate legal captures. Click the piece again to deselect it.

[[File:5-4_old.jpg|480px]]

You cannot jump over an enemy piece when capturing. The pieces highlighted in pink are safe from the piece marked ''a'' because it cannot jump over the piece marked ''b''.

[[File:cap_block2.jpg|480px]]

The Merchant Ship piece cannot capture (has no marked corners), but it cannot be captured.

[[File:3-0%20piece.png|100px]]

'''Rotating'''

On the second part of your turn, you '''must''' rotate one of your pieces by one facing, right or left.

'''Territory'''

Territory is captured by occupying an enemy hex,

By having an unbroken line between your piece in enemy territory and your board edge,

Or by having an unbroken line between two pieces in enemy territory.

Captured spaces are only counted once

The object of NXS is to capture enemy territory. Territory can be captured in one of three ways. The first is just by occupying the enemy board with one of your pieces. Secondly, you can make an unbroken line between your piece, and your own border (like between ''b'' and the black board edge). Lastly, you can have an unbroken line between two of your pieces in enemy territory (like between ''a'' and ''b'' below). Because there is a white piece (''c'') between ''a'' and the black border, no territory is captured.

[[File:territory4.jpg|480px]]

'''Winning'''

Game play continues until one player captures enough enemy territory to win (by default 10 spaces).

'''FAQ'''

Why do I have to rotate a piece?

Rotating a piece is a definitive end to your turn. When you are playing someone in person, allowing someone to pass on the rotation phase causes long game pauses while you are waiting for your opponent to rotate and they forgot to say that they want to pass (it happened a lot during testing). Making the rotation mandatory bypasses this, and also makes the board positions more dynamic.

File:Capture1.jpg

2020-05-08T22:51:16Z

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2020-01-24T22:09:52Z

W3r3wolv3s:

Official Website and Full Rules Here: [http://www.nxsgame.com/tutorial.html]

NXS is pronounced "nexus"

'''Brief rules:'''

Each piece represents a sailing ship.

[[File:4-2.jpg|250px]]

'''Moving'''

Pieces can move in the direction of their arrows

They can move as far as their number of dots

A piece cannot move through another piece

Pieces can move in a straight line in the direction of their arrows. They can move as many spaces as they have dots. Note that pieces must maintain their original facing as they move. You cannot rotate a piece as it moves.

'''Capturing'''

Pieces capture by making a diagonal jump in the direction of their marked corners

NXS pieces have some of their corners marked with bold lines. These lines represent an attack direction. The captured piece is removed from the board and replaced with the capturing piece. The capturing piece maintains its orientation (do not rotate pieces when capturing).

[[File:42_cap.jpg|200px]]

In the game interface, when you click on your piece the hexes where you can move and capture will be highlighted in yellow and red to indicate legal moves.

[[File:5-4_old.jpg|480px]]

You cannot jump over an enemy piece when capturing. The pieces highlighted in pink are safe from the piece marked ''a'' because it cannot jump over the piece marked ''b''.

[[File:cap_block2.jpg|480px]]

The Merchant Ship piece cannot capture (has no marked corners), but it cannot be captured.

[[File:3-0%20piece.png|100px]]

'''Rotating'''

On the second part of your turn, you '''must''' rotate one of your pieces by one facing, right or left.

'''Territory'''

Territory is captured by occupying an enemy hex,

By having an unbroken line between your piece in enemy territory and your board edge,

Or by having an unbroken line between two pieces in enemy territory.

Captured spaces are only counted once

The object of NXS is to capture enemy territory. Territory can be captured in one of three ways. The first is just by occupying the enemy board with one of your pieces. Secondly, you can make an unbroken line between your piece, and your own border (like between ''b'' and the black board edge). Lastly, you can have an unbroken line between two of your pieces in enemy territory (like between ''a'' and ''b'' below). Because there is a white piece (''c'') between ''a'' and the black border, no territory is captured.

[[File:territory4.jpg|480px]]

'''Winning'''

Game play continues until one player captures enough enemy territory to win (by default 10 spaces).

'''FAQ'''

Why do I have to rotate a piece?

Rotating a piece is a definitive end to your turn. When you are playing someone in person, allowing someone to pass on the rotation phase causes long game pauses while you are waiting for your opponent to rotate and they forgot to say that they want to pass (it happened a lot during testing). Making the rotation mandatory bypasses this, and also makes the board positions more dynamic.

Gamehelpnxs

2020-01-24T16:31:55Z

W3r3wolv3s:

Official Website and Full Rules Here: [http://www.nxsgame.com/tutorial.html]

NXS is pronounced "nexus"

'''Brief rules:'''

Each piece represents a sailing ship.

[[File:4-2.jpg|250px]]

'''Moving'''

Pieces can move in the direction of their arrows

They can move as far as their number of dots

A piece cannot move through another piece

Pieces can move in a straight line in the direction of their arrows. They can move as many spaces as they have dots. Note that pieces must maintain their original facing as they move. You cannot rotate a piece as it moves.

'''Capturing'''

Pieces capture by making a diagonal jump in the direction of their marked corners

NXS pieces have some of their corners marked with bold lines. These lines represent an attack direction. The captured piece is removed from the board and replaced with the capturing piece. The capturing piece maintains its orientation (do not rotate pieces when capturing).

[[File:42_cap.jpg|200px]]

You cannot jump over an enemy piece when capturing. The pieces highlighted in pink are safe from the piece marked ''a'' because it cannot jump over the piece marked ''b''.

[[File:cap_block2.jpg|480px]]

The Merchant Ship piece cannot capture (has no marked corners), but cannot be captured. The pieces highlighted in pink are safe from capture from the piece marked ''a'' because it cannot jump over the enemy piece ''b''.

[[File:3-0%20piece.png|100px]]

In the game interface, when you click on your piece the hexes where you can move and capture will be highlighted in yellow and red to indicate legal moves.

[[File:5-4_old.jpg|480px]]

'''Rotating'''

On the second part of your turn, you '''must''' rotate one of your pieces by one facing, right or left.

'''Territory'''

Territory is captured by occupying an enemy hex,

By having an unbroken line between your piece in enemy territory and your board edge,

Or by having an unbroken line between two pieces in enemy territory.

Captured spaces are only counted once

The object of NXS is to capture enemy territory. Territory can be captured in one of three ways. The first is just by occupying the enemy board with one of your pieces. Secondly, you can make an unbroken line between your piece, and your own border (like between ''b'' and the black board edge). Lastly, you can have an unbroken line between two of your pieces in enemy territory (like between ''a'' and ''b'' below). Because there is a white piece (''c'') between ''a'' and the black border, no territory is captured.

[[File:territory4.jpg|480px]]

'''Winning'''

Game play continues until one player captures enough enemy territory to win (by default 10 spaces).

'''FAQ'''

Why do I have to rotate a piece?

Rotating a piece is a definitive end to your turn. When you are playing someone in person, allowing someone to pass on the rotation phase causes long game pauses while you are waiting for your opponent to rotate and they forgot to say that they want to pass (it happened a lot during testing). Making the rotation mandatory bypasses this, and also makes the board positions more dynamic.

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