Heiki Strike Alternative: Essentials:
- No. of players: 2
- Playing time: 30-45 minutes
- Age: 12+
Heiki Strike Alternative: - Rules of Play says:
In Heiki Strike Alternative, the two players each build their own deck from the cards in the box, then deploy their princesses and anthropomorphized weapons to sea and air spaces in a fight to occupy the battlefields. To do this, a player must meet the "occupation conditions" for a battlefield, after which they take the battlefield card. Whoever claims three battlefield cards first wins.
Players will grow stronger over the course of the game through the playing of cards. If a player empties their deck, they shuffle the discarded cards in their reserve to create a new deck, rebuild their base, and now get more resources each turn — but if they run through their deck a third time, they lose.