Nine Tails

Nine Tails is a two-player strategy game that fits in a mint tin!

The fragile truce between the two neighboring cat nations has broken! War has been declared… and only the side most skilled at utilizing their feline subjects will emerge victorious!

The rules are simple.
The game is fast.
The cats are… gloriously silly.

Sling your subjects into enemy territory with a Catapult, take out an opponent with a Catsassin, or push back your foes with a Cattering Ram!

Each card depicts a different cat on its front and back. There are nine different cat types, with four cats of each type.

The four symbols at the top of each card indicate which four cats are on the reverse side of that card type. For example, of the four Catapult cards, two have a Kitten Ram on the back, one has a Cataclysm, and another has a Catucator: Each cat type has a unique action that affects adjacent cards. Depending on the position of the acting cat, cards in one or both territories can be affected.

A player must claim a cat to use its action – indicated by their colored cube on top of the card. Only the visible cat on the front of the card is claimed, not the cat on the underside.

Game Setup

* Shuffle the 18 cat cards
* Deal out six cards. Players take turns taking a card and looking at its back
* Deal out 12 cards. Players take turns taking a card without looking at its back
* Players create their "territory" by arranging their nine cards in a 3x3 grid, with the top three cards facing each other

Gameplay

Nine Tails is a turn-based game. On their turn, a player must perform one of the following actions, if available.

Claim: Flip any unclaimed card in your territory and place your colored cube on it. Immediately perform the action of the now visible cat on that card.

Utilize: Use the action of one of your claimed cats, regardless of its current territory.

Move: Within your own territory, move one of your claimed cards with its cube, or an unclaimed card, to an adjacent empty space in your territory.