SPECIAL RULES
Medics may absorb Wounds inflicted by an Explosive
Traps
You cannot disarm a Trap with an Instant Action tile.
Sandstorm does not disarm Traps.
Quicksands may be moved onto a Trap marker and
activate it.
Traps may not be played on Water spaces.
Withdrawal
When playing against Dancer, Withdrawal played on
an Object deals 1 Wound to this Object, but does not
Withdraw its tile.
When a tile is Withdrawn from the board, all markers
placed on it are discarded (Wounds, Net, Paralysis,
Venom, Satiety, Incubator, Zombie, etc.).
If the Withdrawal has been played after the last turn
of your Opponent, they do not get an additional turn.
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Components:
35 Partisans tiles, 2 Partisans markers,
8 Trap markers, 8 Wound markers,
1 replacement tile, rulebook.
Authors: Artur Pawłowski, Marcin Zapart
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Explosives
in the usual way.
If the Explosive does not explode at the beginning of
the Battle (i.e. because they are Netted), they cannot
explode later (i.e. because they are no longer Net-
ted) nor attack. If the Explosive is not connected to
any enemy unit, it does not explode at all. If it is con-
nected to an enemy HQ, it explodes, but does not deal
any Wounds to the enemy HQ. In games against the
Dancer, Paid Explosives deal 1 Wound to a connect-
ed Object. The Defense Drone may be Netted, Taken
Controlled of, Pushed Back, etc. as usual. Reflection
reflects the Explosives.
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BACKGROUND STORY
They say that the Doctor is the last hope of humanity.
And that no one knows Moloch as well as he does.
When he’s not fighting a battle of wits against Moloch,
he devotes all his energy to controlling the Partisans
network, creating new weapons and tactics. The Doc-
tor’s bunker is hidden deep underground—the coordi-
nates are unknown. Even if a stranger should wander
into the nearby area, they’re met by guards, cannons,
mines, traps, and dozens of different safeguards to de-
fend the bunker.
DECK DESCRIPTION
The main advantage of the Partisans is their high level
of board control by arming Traps on unoccupied hexes
of the board. Traps are armed in several independent
ways. The deployment of specific types of Traps on the
board is unknown to the opponent until they are acti-
vated. In addition, the Army has high endurance and
attack power as well as a TACTIC token, which gives
them the choice of adjusting actions to the current sit-
uation on the board.
TACTICAL ADVICE
Players should take advantage of the Partisans’ HQ’s
ability to rotate and make optimal use of its ability
to arm Traps. Partisans should arm as many Traps
as possible early in the game, thus taking control of
as many hexes as possible. In the later game, arm-
ing Traps is more difficult. The success of this Army
depends on the proper deployment of Traps and the
optimal use of their effects.
TACTICAL ADVICE FOR
THE OPPONENT
The board will fill up quickly with Traps. It’s often
worth risking a weaker tile and placing it on a Trap to
gain a key hex. Note that most Traps do not have ef-
fects that interact with Foundation tiles. If you occupy
hexes on the Trap Launcher line, your opponent will be
unable to arm Traps.
NEW RULES
Traps
Trap markers may only be placed on empty hexes.
Traps may not be placed on Foundation tiles or hexes
that already contain other Trap markers.
Any tile, either one’s own or an enemy’s, including
Foundation tiles, may be placed on the Trap marker
normally (or moved with a Move, Push, etc.), which
either disarms or activates the Trap, depending on the
type of tile. This is the only way to remove the Trap
marker from the board.
Trap markers cannot be moved, Pushed Back, Netted,
Taken Over, Wounded, etc. Instant tokens (Sniper,
Grenade, Bomb, Small Bomb, etc.) do not affect them.
Trap markers do not block line of sight. For the pur-
poses of Battles that begin because of a fully occupied
board, a hex with only a Trap marker is not considered
an occupied hex.
The Partisans player may view the Trap markers dis-
played on the board at any time during their turn, but
under no circumstances may they swap them for oth-
ers in their supply or already on the board.
You may arm more than one Trap on your turn as long
as there are empty hexes on the board and a tile has
been played that allows you to place them.
Trap markers
Arming: place a face down Trap marker on an empty
hex on the board.
Disarm: occurs when any Partisan tile is either played
or moved to a hex with a Trap marker. The marker is
not uncovered, and returns to the supply of available
Traps. The disarmed Trap may be played again later
according to the standard rules.
Activation: occurs when any opponent’s tile (including
the HQ), is placed on a hex with the Trap marker. First,
the marker is revealed, then the effect indicated on it is
resolved. Unless otherwise indicated, once the effect is
resolved, the Trap is discarded from the game.
IMPORTANT: If an opponent plays a tile on a hex with
a Trap marker, they must specify the direction of the
played tile before revealing the Trap. Abilities such as
Reconnaissance or Boarding are not considered until
after the effect of the Trap has been resolved.
 HQ 1 PROVOCATEUR
Melee attacks.
Special feature – Trap
Launcher: Once per turn, a
face down Trap marker may
be placed on any empty hex
located in a straight line
from the Trap Launcher.
SLEEPER AGENT 2
Melee attack.
Arming the Trap: When
played, the Partisans player
may place a Trap marker
on an adjacent empty hex
in the direction indicated by
this token.
Connected friendly units
gain +1 Strength in Melee
attack.
ASSISTANT DOCTOR 2
Rotation.
Melee attacks.
Arming the Trap: When
played, the Partisans player
may place a Trap marker
on adjacent empty hexes in
the directions indicated by
this token.
DEFENSE DRONE 1
Arming the Trap: When
played, the Partisans player
may place a Trap marker
on adjacent empty hexes in
the directions indicated by
this token.
Explosives: At the begin-
ning of a Battle (before
any Initiative phases), the
adjacent enemy tile, indicat-
ed by the Explosion icon,
is destroyed along with the
Defense Drone. It does not
cause Wounds to HQs.
CYBORG CHARLIE 4
Melee attacks.
Toughness.
2 3
3 CHAUFFEUR
Melee attacks.
Armor.
GUSTAV 2.0 2 BUNKER MANAGER 1
Armor.
Each enemy unit in the line
of sight gets 1 Wound.
Bonuses that increase
firepower CANNOT improve
this attack. Armor protects
normally against this
attack.
MAD SID 1 the Partisans player
Ranged attack.
Armor.
SCOUT VETERAN 1
A connected friendly unit
gains +2 Initiative.
SCOUT 2 board.
Connected friendly units
gain +1 Initiative.
MEDIC 1
A connected friendly unit
must ignore all Wounds
from 1 attack; the Medic is
then discarded.
X their last tile.
X - number of tiles
1
Each connected friendly
unit may Rotate once per
round.
Toughness.
Implant. By activating this
Implant, the Partisans
player may Rotate the HQ
once per turn.
Toughness.
WITHDRAWAL 1 be moved to a hex with a Foundation tile or another
When this token is played,
Withdraws (moves to the
top of the original owner’s
draw pile) any enemy unit
(except the HQ). When
the opponent draws new
tokens on their turn, this
token is the first to be
drawn.
TACTICS 4 the unit and removed from the game.
This tile allows you to
resolve either of these 2
actions:
• Push Back an enemy unit.
• Place a Trap marker on
any empty hex on the
MOVE 3 - Paralysis x1 – the unit activating this Trap is Par-
Move a friendly unit to an
adjacent, unoccupied hex
and/or Rotate it freely in
any direction.
BATTLE 5 Implants are a new type of unit, allowing a player
Start a Battle. After Battle,
the player’s turn ends. This
tile cannot be used to start
a Battle if any player drew
Traps:
- Mine x1 – the unit activating this Trap is immedi-
ately destroyed and removed from the board. The
Medic may take the damage inflicted by this Trap
normally. Does not work on HQs.
- Smokescreen x1 – the Partisans player may freely
rotate the enemy unit that activated this Trap.
- Drill x1 – the Partisans player may move the unit
that activated this Trap to any other empty hex on
the board without rotating it. If there is no such
hex, then this Trap has no effect. The unit may not
Trap. Does not work on Foundation tiles.
- Medpack x2 – this Trap does not affect the tile
that activates it. Instead, the Partisans player places
this marker on a Partisans unit on an adjacent hex
and gains an additional Toughness. The marker is
removed after that unit receives a Wound. If there is
no adjacent Partisans unit, nothing happens.
- Net x1 – the unit activating this Trap is Netted until
the end of the Battle. Place this Trap marker on this
unit. After the Battle, the marker is removed from
- Rabies x1 – the attacks of the unit that activated
this Trap receive the Friendly Fire feature. Place this
Trap marker on this unit. Until the end of the Battle,
this unit deals Wounds to both enemy and allied
units. If this unit has a Web, this Web is considered
a Spider’s Web—it Nets enemy units as well as its
own. After the Battle, the marker is removed from
the unit and removed from the game.
alyzed until the end of the Battle. The Paralyzed unit
may move and perform any action—except attacks.
Place this Trap marker on the unit. After the Battle,
the marker is removed from the unit and removed
from the game.
Implants:
to perform the action depicted on the Implant
tile during their turn. Once per turn, a player may
activate one of the Implants of their own Army on
the board.