SYMBOL rules by NESTORGAMES | Symbol

George Leach

United Kingdom
Salford
Greater Manchester

When activating a stack, can each piece move independently, or must the whole stack, or a subset, move away to split the stack up?
Does a red piece repel pieces at every space within a move?
Can earth units capture twice during a turn?
How about other units, can they continue their movement after capturing? I ask this as the air units state they must end their turn on an opposing unit to capture it.

I think most of these are answered "no" but it wasn't 100% clear from reading the rules.

Posted Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:13 pm
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Ben Stanley

(Blue Steel)

United States
Pleasant Grove
Utah

All excellent questions, and your instinct is correct that the answer to every one of them is "No."

Other things that you cannot do that I sometimes get asked about:

You CANNOT move a piece, picking up another piece somewhere during the movement, and continuing on during the same turn.

You CANNOT move a stack, dropping part of it off along the way, and then continuing on during the same turn.

In other words, on your turn you use a single piece or multiple pieces if they are in the same stack at the start of the turn. You do not have to use an entire stack. You may use a subset for your turn, but you only get the movement of one piece in the stack (or part of the stack) you actually use, and the special powers of whatever is in the stack (or part of the stack) that you actually use. If you are moving a stack that contains a red unit, the whole stack you use can push opponents at the end of its complete movement. If the stack contains a black unit, you can cause it to detonate at the end of its complete movement.

It gets confusing when a leader is in the very stack you use, because the leader can add pieces to the board in places other than where the leader is (green, blue, white, and red pieces on the stack with or in any spaces surrounding the leader, and black units at any space on or surrounding any of your green, blue, white, red, and yellow pieces). When you move a stack with the leader, you can still add piece(s) to the board, but you CANNOT also move those newly added pieces unless they were added to the very stack you are already committed to using for that turn, namely the stack that includes the leader.

Edited Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:07 pm
Posted Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:43 pm
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George Leach

(Jugular)

United Kingdom
Salford
Greater Manchester

So you can move a stack and activate the special abilities within that stack. From memory I assumed that the Leader ability, the black detonation and the red repulsion were all special abilities. Is that correct? If I had an air, death, fire and leader in a stack can it move two diagonally, repulse everything, recruit a new unit adjacent to it and then detonate (effectively suiciding the game, but still...) killing everything in the stack and adjacent?

Posted Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:01 pm
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Ben Stanley

(Blue Steel)

United States
Pleasant Grove
Utah

Correct, correct, correct, and correct.

Remember that red repulses only enemies and only at the conclusion of a movement, and generally you don't want to blow up your own leader, but that's exactly right, and as others have noted about the game, it does lend itself to some of the most spectacular resignations in any board game.

Posted Mon Aug 16, 2010 7:43 pm
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Nathan Morse

(zefquaavius)

United States
Powell
Ohio

Phew! New rules just in time for my copy to enter the USA.

Posted Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:15 am
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Larry Wheeler

(lwheeler)

United States
Chicago
Illinois

"On a player’s turn he
or she can move one piece, such as a green unit, onto
another, such as a blue unit on the coast adjacent to the shore."

The rules don't state how you can get stacks taller than two pieces. I assume you can move one piece onto a stack of two or more pieces. Can you move a stack onto a piece or a stack?

Posted Wed Jun 8, 2011 7:33 pm
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Nathan Morse

(zefquaavius)

United States
Powell
Ohio

Yes and yes, unless I'm quite confused.

Posted Wed Jun 8, 2011 7:47 pm
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