Hostage Exchange

Increase your courage by 1 and reduce your maximum speed by 1, to a minimum of 1. You cannot start a melee. During round 1, enemy units cannot start a melee with or attack you, and you gain Immune: Enemy Effects. Unequip this card if you do not have a claimed objective token.

Setup: Each player chooses 1 Corps unit that they have created. Then, starting with the blue player, each player places their opponents chosen unit on, or as near as possible to, the center of the battlefield and performs a speed 1 move with that unit. Then, each player places a claimed objective token in base contact with the unit leader of their chosen unit and equips the Hostage upgrade card to that unit. During Round 1, units cannot use the Detonate keyword.

All trooper units gain: → Claim.

At the end of the game, each player gains 1 victory token for each objective token that it has claimed by a unit they control. Then, each player gains 1 victory token for each objective token that is within their deployment zone and claimed by a unit they control.