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Choose an action section different from your previous turn. You may take its top action, bottom action, both or neither; if both, resolve top before bottom. Pay each full cost before gaining benefits, and take each action at most once. Rusviet may repeat player-mat sections, but current official errata prohibit consecutive Factory-card turns.

Resources stay on the map: wood, food, metal and oil belong to whoever currently controls their territory and may be spent from any territories you control. Workers are not resources. Units, or your structure without enemy units present, provide control; occupying an enemy structure does not grant its abilities.

The basic Move action moves up to two different units one space each, or instead earns one coin. Tunnels are adjacent to one another; rivers and lakes normally block movement unless an ability allows it. All units may carry resources; only mechs carry workers, never characters. A character or mech stops upon entering a territory with enemy units.

For Produce, first pay every exposed red cost, then choose up to two controlled territories. Each worker there may produce one matching resource, or another worker on a village. Take new workers from the player mat left to right; newly revealed costs apply to future Produce actions, without extra payment this time.

Bottom actions use oil to upgrade, metal to deploy, wood to build and food to enlist. Upgrade moves a cube from an upper green box to a lower red box with brackets. Deploy on a territory with your worker, unlocking an ability for every mech and your character. Enlisting gives a one-time reward and an ongoing bonus when you or either immediate neighbor takes the corresponding bottom action.

After movement, combat occurs where opposing characters or mechs share a territory. Each side secretly selects up to seven power, limited by its current power, and normally adds up to one combat card per participating character or mech. Higher total wins; the attacker wins ties. Both spend dialed power and discard used cards. All losing units retreat home, leaving resources to the winner.

Only characters resolve encounters or first claim a Factory card. Encounters resolve after movement and combat, before the bottom action. A Factory card adds an action section but grants no corresponding player-mat recruit, structure or coin bonuses. Forcing enemy workers to retreat on your turn normally costs one popularity each; encountering workers alone is not combat.

The sixth star ends the game immediately, without equalizing turns. Add retained coins, structure bonuses and popularity-based earnings: at popularity 0–6 / 7–12 / 13–18, earn 3 / 4 / 5 per star, 2 / 3 / 4 per territory and 1 / 2 / 3 per pair of resources. The Factory counts as three territories; home bases do not count. Most coins wins, not necessarily the sixth-star player.