Units & Maps

Seven pieces, five powers, two boards.

7 pieces 5 power colours 2 boards The maps →

Placeables and structures

Four pieces are drawn from an unlimited supply and dropped on an empty hex. The other three are built — each by one specific piece, which is spent raising it. Every structure is also a door: it deploys its owner's pieces straight onto the hexes beside it.

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Trade Representative Civilian

$5Builds a Trade HubDeploys from a Trade Hub

Deploys at home, or on any empty hex beside your Trade Hubs
Moves 3, through buildings but not past rival pieces
Builds a Trade Hub
In a rival's zone, spend it: your Income +2, theirs +1, their regard for you +1
At your own door, Domestic Investment for $3: Income +1 for ever, Popular Support +1
That income is banked, where no Bomber can reach it

Diplomat Civilian

$6Builds a EmbassyDeploys from a Embassy

Deploys at home, or on any empty hex beside your Embassies
Moves 3, through buildings but not past rival pieces
Builds an Embassy
In a rival's zone, spend it: their regard for you +2
At your own door, Propaganda for $4: your Popular Support +3

Tank Soldier

$7Builds a Military BaseDeploys from a Military Base

Deploys at home, or on any empty hex beside your Military Bases
Its activation is one of three: march 3; advance 1 and strike; or strike twice standing still
It decides as it goes — fire first and the march is 1 hex, walk 2 and the shot is gone
A strike kills a piece outright, but only damages an intact building
Its two strikes must find two different things, so it can never damage and destroy in one turn
Stopped by anything a rival owns
Builds a Military Base for a flat $15

Bomber Soldier

$11Deploys from a Military Base

Deploys at home, or on any empty hex beside your Military Bases
Moves 5, over everything
Strikes only what it is standing NEXT to
Destroys an enemy building outright in one hit, and takes its hex
May only attack buildings and Artillery
Moving spends its activation — it must close, stand in the open a turn, then fire

Embassy Structure

Built by a Diplomat

Built by a Diplomat
Costs 4 / 6 / 9 / 12 / 15 in a 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 7-hex nation
Pays 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 7 in Global Influence every turn
Three turns to repay itself anywhere — but the centre pays 7 and repays in two
One per player per minor power
Your Diplomats deploy onto any empty hex beside it

Trade Hub Structure

Built by a Trade Representative

Built by a Trade Representative
Costs its minor power's size, plus 1
Pays 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 in Income every turn in a 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 7-hex nation
It repays in under two turns anywhere, and the bigger the nation the better
Your Trade Representatives deploy onto any empty hex beside it

Military Base Structure

$18Built by a Tank

Built by a Tank
Costs a flat $18 wherever it stands, and pays nothing
Takes $3 off your Income every turn it stands — you rent position, you do not buy it
Strikes an enemy PIECE 2 or 3 hexes away, never a building, and its reach ignores what stands between
Kills outright, and cannot fire at anything beside it
ONE ACTIVATION A TURN, and deploying through it spends that: open the door, or fire, or sell — not two
The turn you raise it, that was its action
Your Tanks and Bombers deploy onto any empty hex beside it
Raising one costs 1 regard with every rival already holding an Embassy or Hub in that nation
Sell any building for half its price rounded up — and a Base alone gives those rivals' regard back

The maps

Both boards are hexagons of nations around a single centre. A table of three plays the three-power board by default; everyone else plays the four-power one, and a solo player may choose. Click a map to open it full size.

Four powers

127 hexes · 15 nations · four corners

Hexes in play: 127
Minor powers: 15
Radius: 6
Default for: One, two or four players

BlueOrangePurpleGreen

Blue upper-left, Orange upper-right, Purple lower-right, Green lower-left — four of the six corners, with east and west left empty.

1 player	You hold Blue; the computer takes the rest
2 players	Blue and Purple — opposite corners, so neither player has the computer on both flanks
3 players	Blue, Orange and Purple, with the computer on Green
4 players	All four corners

Three powers

91 hexes · 13 nations · three corners

Hexes in play: 91
Minor powers: 13
Radius: 5
Default for: Three players

BlueIrisGreen

Blue upper-left, Iris east, Green lower-left — alternate corners, 120° apart, so every seat meets the same arrangement turned.

1 player	You hold Blue; the computer takes the rest
2 players	Blue and Iris — any two of three interchangeable corners
3 players	All three corners

The games

Gambit: The Pyre Wars

Points of Conflict

By Other Means