Setting up an Adventure

Choose a villain Villain The main enemy in Unmatched Adventures, controlled by the game. Reduce its health to zero to win.. Place Placed A fighter set directly into a space by an effect. Placing is not a maneuver, so it ignores normal movement rules. the board with its side face up, put the threat marker Threat track The track on the villain's board showing its progress toward its objective. on the first space Space A single position on the battlefield. Fighters occupy one space and move between connected spaces along printed lines. of the threat track, shuffle the villain’s action deck Action deck A hero's unique deck of action cards, played to maneuver, scheme and fight., set its starting health Health A fighter's life total, tracked on a health dial. At zero health the fighter is defeated. to 10 per player, and place its miniature on the starting space.

Choose minions Minion A secondary enemy in Unmatched Adventures that fights alongside the villain, controlled by the game. equal to the number of players. For each: shuffle its action deck, set its health dial to 10, and place its token in an empty space adjacent Adjacent Two spaces connected by a single line. Melee attacks require the attacker and target to be adjacent. to the villain.

Set up heroes Hero Your primary fighter, with a character card, special ability and unique deck. If your hero is defeated, you lose.. Each player chooses a hero, places them on any empty starting space, and sets up according to the Unmatched core rules.

Take player markers. Each player takes the player order marker (1–4) matching the space their hero started on.

Build the initiative Initiative If two effects would ever appear to resolve at the same time, the defender's effect resolves first (core rules, Resolve Combat). deck. Shuffle together the initiative cards Initiative deck The shuffled deck that sets the turn order of players and enemies each round in Adventures. for the villain, minions and players in use, and place the deck near the board.