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Toy Battle

2-2 players 15-15 min 7.8 Board Game Geek Rating

Players command toy armies across diverse battlefields, drawing troops or deploying them strategically each turn. Troops must be placed along continuous paths from your headquarters, capturing enemy bases with higher-valued units. Victory comes by conquering the opponent's headquarters or collecting the most medals by surrounding territories with your forces.

Published 2025

Toy Battle

Get Ready

Setup the game with these step-by-step instructions before diving into your turn.

1
Choose a Terrain
Select one of the 8 available Terrains (Castle Field is recommended for first games)
2
Position the board
Place the Terrain between both players so each has one of the medal objective symbols in front of them, determining their Troop color
3
Place Medal markers
Put a Medal marker on each designated space on the board and return remaining markers to the box
4
Take your rack
Place a rack in front of you
5
Create your reserve
Shuffle all Troops in your color facedown to make your reserve pile
6
Remove Troops from game
Remove 4 Troops from your reserve and return them to the box without looking at them
7
Determine first player
Randomly choose the starting player
8
Draw starting Troops
The first player takes 3 Troops from their reserve onto their rack; their opponent takes 4 Troops
9
Prepare discard area
Leave an empty space next to the board for the discard pile

On Your Turn

What you can do during your turn.

1
Choose one action
On your turn, perform one of the two available actions: Draw 2 Troops or Place 1 Troop on the Terrain
2
Draw 2 Troops
Take 2 Troops from your reserve and place them on your rack
3
Place 1 Troop
Choose 1 Troop from your rack and place it on a valid slot following placement rules
4
Valid placement slots
You may place on an empty base, a base with any of your Troops, a base with an enemy Troop of strictly lower strength, or your opponent's H.Q.
5
Stacking Troops
When placing on an occupied base, stack your Troop on top; only the visible top Troop occupies the base
6
Maintain H.Q. connection
You must place your Troop on a slot connected to your H.Q. by a continuous path through bases you occupy
7
Apply effects
After placing, apply your Troop's effect (if any), then the special base effect (if applicable)
8
Control a region
When you occupy all bases surrounding a region, immediately take all Medals from that region's center

Winning

How to claim victory.

1
Capture enemy H.Q.
If you place one of your Troops on the enemy H.Q., you immediately win the game
2
Achieve Medals objective
If you gain the number of Medals shown on the Terrain's Medals objective, you immediately win the game
3
Game ends by depletion
If a player cannot draw or place a Troop, the game ends and players compare Medals

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