Kemet

Use the original 2–5-player setup and the board area for that count. Agree on an 8-point short game or 10-point long game. Each player begins with 5 prayer points, one Divine Intervention card, ten deployed units and three pyramid levels distributed as 1/1/1 or 2/1/0.

Each cycle begins with Night: gain 2 prayer points, draw a Divine Intervention card and resolve night powers. Except for the initial random order, the player with fewest victory points chooses the complete turn order; a tie favors the player earlier in the previous order.

During Day, take turns placing one of your five action tokens on an empty space of your action pyramid and immediately resolving it. Across the day, place at least one token in each of its first three rows; special power tokens have their own rules.

Prayer gives 2 prayer points, with a maximum stock of 11. Upgrading a pyramid costs the sum of the new levels reached in that action. A level-4 pyramid grants a temporary victory point while controlled.

Buy a power of a color supported by a pyramid you control, at no higher level than that pyramid, paying its level in prayer points before discounts. Effects apply immediately unless their timing says otherwise. You may not own identical powers, even across colors.

Recruit units into your own city for one prayer point each; a troop normally holds at most five units. A movement action moves one troop, normally one space, with permitted splitting or pickups. Moving from a controlled pyramid to an obelisk costs 2 prayer points and does not use the movement allowance.

Entering an occupied enemy space starts battle and ends movement, unless an applicable effect changes this. An enemy city wall normally requires the troop to begin its movement next to the district before entering it.

Each combatant chooses one battle card to play and another to discard, and may add eligible Divine Intervention cards. Compare units plus combat bonuses and card strength; ties favor the defender. Apply casualties on both sides from opposing damage minus protection, independently of who wins.

Only an attacking winner with at least one surviving unit earns a permanent battle victory point. Losing troops may retreat to an eligible adjacent empty space chosen by the winner or recall; either side may recall its whole troop for one prayer point per unit instead of leaving it on the board.

Temple control grants temporary points. At Day’s end resolve temple rewards and the Sanctuary’s two-unit sacrifice for a permanent point; controlling at least two temples also grants a permanent point. Check the agreed victory threshold at Day’s end: highest points wins, then battle points, then earlier position in that day’s order.