Operation Manual

SETUP
1. Place the battle board in the middle of the playing area,
between both players, but with the Earth edge closest to
the Mankind player.
2. Place the invasion plot marker on space “10” of the Invasion
Plan track on the battle board.
3. Place a marker on the corresponding space of each strategy
on the battle board.
4. Place one token (Mankind side face up) on the Ops centre
space on the battle board.
5. Shue the deck with Heroes of the Resistance cards and
place it face down next to the battle board. The Mankind
player then places the topmost Heroes of the Resistance
card face up in any of the three areas below his side of the
battle board.
6. Both players take their appropriate deck, shue the cards
and place them face down in their playing area. Each player
draws ve cards from his deck for their starting hand.
GAME SEQUENCE
The game is played in turns. Each turn one player takes his turn.
Play alternates back and forth with each player completing all
phases of their turn before passing to the other player.
The Invader always starts the rst turn.
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OBJECTIVE
Invaders is a two-player, asymmetric (attack-defence) card game,
where one player (Mankind) tries to defend against the other
player’s (Invader) attacks.
If at any time one of the following victory conditions is met the
game immediately ends.
Mankind wins if:
• The Invader has an empty draw deck when required to draw
or drain cards.
• The marker on the invasion plan track reaches zero.
• Five tokens are placed upon the Biological Weapon Package
– Codenamed ‘Alluring Succubus’ card.
The Invader wins if:
• Mankind has an empty draw deck when required to
draw / drain cards.
• The power of invasion zone Eurasia is reduced to zero.
• The power of both invasion zones, Pacic rim and Africa,
are reduced to zero
• All 11 Heroes of the Resistance cards are destroyed
or sacriced.
• Five tokens are placed upon the Black-goo-sprayer Support
Warmachine card.
Each turn consists of three phases played in the following order:
• A. Draw phase (mandatory)
• B. Main phase
• C. Attack phase (mandatory – Invader only)