Unmatched Adventures: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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• Setup
  • • Choose a villain and:
      • Place the board with the chosen villain's side up.
      • Place the threat marker on the 1st space.
      • Shuffle the villain's action deck.
      • Place the villain's mini on the "5" starting space.
      • Set the villain's health to the value listed in its special setup (below).
      • Create a supply of tokens/cards per the special setup.
      • Follow any additional steps in the special setup
    • Choose a number of minions equal to the number of players, either randomly or decide which to use. Setup the minions:
      • Shuffle the minion's action deck.
      • Place the minion's token in any empty space adjacent to the villain.
      • Set the minion's health to 10.
      • Follow any special setup for the minion.
    • Each player chooses a hero and:
      • Sets their starting health to as noted on their character card.
        • Note that sidekicks with no health dial have 1 health.
      • Shuffles their action card deck, places it face down, and then draws 5 cards as their starting hand.
      • Place their mini on any empty starting (numbered) space.
      • If they have sidekicks, place them in separate spaces in the same zone as their character.
        • If their character is in a space in multiple zones, their sidekick(s) can be in any of the matching zones.
        • If there are no available spaces in a matching zone, the sidekick can be placed anywhere.
      • Take the player order marker matching the starting space of their hero (1-4).
      • Gather the initiative cards matching the villain, minions, and player order tokens being used.
        • There may be special initiative cards listed in the villain/minion special setup.
      • Shuffle the completed initiative deck.
    • If playing with Allies & Henchman, see the setup instructions for that.
  • Special Setup: Shredder
    • • Starting health:
        • 1P: 14
        • 2P: 21
        • 3P: 28
        • 4P: 35
      • Supply: 24 foot soldier tokens
      • Initiative cards:
        • 1 Shredder turn card
        • 1 To the Streets! card
      • Extra setup steps:
        • Shuffle the 5 borough tiles together with the "under threat" side face up and stack them in the 1st space of the fallen boroughs track.
        • Place foot soldiers equal to the number of players in the borough on the map that matches the tile at the top of the stack. Each token is placed, purple side up, in a different circle in borough.
  • Special Setup: Krang
    • • Starting health:
        • 1P: 14
        • 2P: 21
        • 3P: 28
        • 4P: 35
      • Supply:
        • 1 die of ultimate destruction
        • 8 technodrome trap cards
        • 4 dimension X markers
      • Initiative cards:
        • 1 Krang turn card
        • 1 technodrome traps card
      • Extra setup steps:
        • Stack the dimension X markers in ascending order on top of the "Krang Wins" message.
        • Place the 3 doomsday machine tokens on the marked spaces with the active side up.
  • Special Setup: Minions
    • • Baxter Stockman: Create a supply of 8 mouser tokens.
      • Rat King: Create a supply of 8 rat tokens.
      • Slash: Remove all 5 fury cards from Slash's action card deck and stack them face up nearby.
• Gameplay

  • The game is played over a series of rounds with players/villains/minions taking turns according to when their initiative cards comes up. The game continues until either the players defeat the villain or the players lose. The players can lose by the villain achieving its objective or by all players being eliminated.

    General Rules

    • Heros and sidekicks controlled by the players are called "player fighters" and opposing fighters are called "enemy fighters".
    • The main enemy is called the "villain" and all other enemy fighters are called "minions".
    • Players are only eliminated when all of their fighters are defeated.
      • When a player is eliminated, removed their initiative card from the initiative row, or later when it's flipped.
      • Eliminated players are not affected by enemy attacks.
    • If a fighter reaches 0 health, they are defeated.
      • A defeated fighter cannot recover health.
    • A fighter can never go above their starting health
    • You can have more than 7 cards in your hand during your turn, but you must discard down to 7 cards at the end of your turn.

    The Initiative Deck

    At the start of each turn, reveal the top card of the initiative deck and resolve its effects.

    • Some initiative cards resolve when revealed and some have effects that resolve at the end of the round.
    • Resolve any RIGHT NOW effects immediately. This is usually a player or enemy taking a turn.
    • After all the "right now" effects have been resolved, draw the next card from the initiative deck and place it the right of previously drawn cards (creating the "initiative row").

    The Threat Track

    • At the end of each round, the villain advances the threat marker as shown on its initiative card.
    • Advance the threat marker 1 space if an enemy cannot reach and attack a target.
    • When the threat marker reaches the end of the track, ignore any additional spaces it would move and immediately resolve the objective's effect.
      • If the game doesn't end, return it to the 1st space on the track.
  • Player Turns

    • On your turn, you must take 2 actions. The possible actions are:

      • Maneuver
        1. Draw the top card of your deck and add it to your hand. You must do this!
           • If you cannot draw a card, each of your fighters immediately takes 2 damage for each card you cannot draw.
        2. Move your fighters (optional).
           • Your character card lists your move value.
           • You may move each of your characters, 1 at a time, up to your move value.
             • Before moving, you may choose to boost your movement by discarding 1 card from your hand to add that cards boost value to your move value.
               • Cards that would no longer be otherwise playable can be used for boosting.
             • Movement must be through adjacent spaces.
             • You can move through friendly fighters.
             • You must end the movement on an empty space.
             • You cannot move your fighters through spaces with opposing fighters.
             • The order in which you move your fighters is up to you.
             • You do not have to move all of your fighters.
           • If an effect allows you to move opponent fighters, all the same movement rules must be followed (from the opponent's perspective).
      • Scheme (⚡)
        • Choose a scheme card (⚡) and declare which (undefeated) fighter is resolving it and play it face up.
        • Resolve the card's effects and place it in your discard pile.
      • Attack (this covers the general rules of play, with callouts for Unmatched Adventures (UMA))
        1. Declare your target
           • Any fighter may use a melee attack on an adjacent space, regardless of the zones.
           • Ranged fighters may attack any fighter in the same zone as the attacker (don't have to be adjacent).
        2. Choose and reveal
           1. Choose an attack (or versatile) card from your hand play it face down in front of you.
              • Your attacking fighter must be able to use this card (their name or "any" on it).
           2. The defender may choose a defense (or versatile) card from their hand and play it face down. For UMA, you always draw the top card of the enemy deck and use its defense.
              • Your defender must be able to use this card.
           3. Reveal both cards at the same time and resolve them in the following order.
              • Immediately: Resolve any of these effects 1st. They will often cancel other effects.
              • During combat: Resolve these next. These will often change attack/defense values.
              • Apply combat damage: The attacker deals damage equal to the value of their played attack card after subtracting the defense value (if any) on the defender's card.
                • Note: A defender never deals damage to the attacker, even if the def. value is higher.
              • Additional effects: Some effects happen "after attacking" and occur as the last step after the attack is fully resolved.
              • After combat: Resolve any of these card effects. These will often move fighters or draw cards.
              • Cleanup: Place all played action cards in their discard piles.
              • Other rules:
                • If 2 effects would ever resolve at the same time, the defender's effect resolves 1st.
                • If a fighter is defeated during the combat, any effects on their card still resolve.
                • Card effects are mandatory unless they include the word "may".
                • If something refers to a card's "printed value", that is only the value on the card with no modifiers.
                • If an effect "ignores" a card's value, the value is always 0 when calculating combat damage, regardless of any modifiers.
                • Resolve as much of any effect as you can if it cannot be fully resolved.
                • If an effect is canceled, do not resolve it.
        3. Winning the combat.
           • The attacker won the combat it they dealt at least 1 combat damage (other effects do not count).
           • The defender wins if they took 0 combat damage.
  • Enemy Turns

    • Enemies will attempt to make 1 attack (not 2 turns, like players) on a player fighter.

      General Rules

      • Effects that specifically refer to "heroes" or "sidekicks" do not affect villains or minions.
      • All enemy action cards are versatile and can be used for attack or defense. Note that they have separate attack and defense values.
      • Most of the enemy card effects are also versatile and are resolved when played as attack or defense.
        • If the attack and defense values are split into 2 different boxes, the effect only resolves when the corresponding value is used.
      • Enemies do not have a hand of cards.
        • If any effect would reveal (or look at) an enemy's hand, instead look at the top card of the enemy deck.
        • If an enemy is forced to discard cards, put that many cards from their deck into their discard.
      • Enemy ability tokens:
        • Generally, each space is limited to 1 ability token of each type. If a duplicate would be placed, nothing happens.
        • If there are multiple valid placement spaces, players choose.
        • If there are no tokens left in the supply to place, nothing happens.
        • Ability tokens are not fighters. They cannot be attacked and effects that refer to "fighters" or "minions" do not apply to these.
        • The tokens can only be removed according to their specific rules.
      • Deception cards:
        • Each enemy has a deception card in its deck.
        • Whenever this card is placed in its discard pile, shuffle the discard pile back into the deck.
        • This effect always resolves, even when placed in the discard pile due to another effect. It cannot be canceled or prevented.
        • If this is discarded in the middle of combat, immediately shuffle the enemy deck, but do not shuffle the card the enemy is using in combat.

      Taking an Enemy Turn

      An enemy will determine a target, move to reach the target (if necessary), then makes 1 attack on its target.

      1. Determining a target
         1. If the fighter is adjacent to 1 player fighter, it attacks them. If it is adjacent to more than 1 player fighter, the players choose who the enemy attacks.
         2. If the enemy can move adjacent to a player fighter in its movement range, it moves to them. Again, players decide who the enemy moves to if there is a tie.
         3. If the enemy cannot move to be adjacent to a player fighter, it does not move or attack. Instead, advance the threat marker by 1 space.
      2. Moving
         • The move value for the enemy is its initiative card.
         • Enemies may move through other enemy fighters.
         • Enemies always take the shortest route to a destination.
           • If there are multiple shortest routes, the players choose which route.
         • If an effect places an enemy in a specific space or has them swap spaces, this does not depend on the move value.
           • When moving like this, the enemy does not move through any spaces other than their destination.
           • If there are multiple spaces to move to or enemies to swap with, players choose.
           • If all spaces the enemy could move to are occupied, the enemy stays in their current space.
      3. Enemy combat
         • When an enemy resolves combat (as an attacker or defender), they always draw the top card of their deck after the player selects and plays a face down card as normal (optional for defense).
         • Resolve the attack value and all effects in a similar manner to attacks in player turns.
           • Note that some effects are "boxed" and only apply to either attack or defense.
         • After the cards are resolved, add the card to the enemy's discard pile.
         • When an enemy is reduced to 0 health, it is defeated. Remove all of its components from the game.
           • Remove the initiative card either immediately (if face up) or later when it is revealed.
  • Using Other Unmatched Fighters
    • • Choosing an opponent: Enemies are treated as being played by an opponent. However, enemies cannot be "chosen". Ignore any effect that says "choose an opponent".
      • Enemy decisions: Enemies cannot make decisions.
        • If there is a "may" associated with something, the enemy will not do it.
        • If there is an "up to X times", the enemy will do it 0 times.
        • If an effect moves an enemy to more than 1 possible space, the players choose where to place them.
        • If an effect would have the enemy choose between 2 or more options, the enemy refuses.
      • Printed value: The printed value of a card in an enemy deck is its attack value.
      • Small fighters: Enemies do not attack small fighters. They ignore small fighters in target determination.
      • Drawing cards: If the enemy is to draw cards, shuffle that many cards from the top of the discard pile back into its deck.
        • Enemies cannot become exhausted.
      • Returning to hand: If an effect returns a card to the enemy's hand, put that card back on top of their deck.
  • End of Round
    • • After the last card from the initiative deck has been resolved and all fighters have taken their turns, resolve all "end of round" effects on the initiative cards from left to right.
      • Shuffle the initiative cards, place them face down, and start the next round.
  • End of Game
    • • Players immediately win if they defeat the villain by reducing his health to 0.
      • Players immediately lose if the villain achieves its objective 4 times.
      • Players immediately lose if all players are eliminated.
• Special Rules: Shredder
  • • At the end of each round, Shredder's initiative card advances the threat marker 1 space + 1 space for each borough where there is at least 1 foot soldier.
    • Each time the threat marker reaches the end of the track, the top borough on the stack becomes "fallen".
      • If any 4 boroughs fall, Shredder wins.
    • When a borough falls:
      1. Shift the borough stack 1 space to the right and flip the top tile into the vacated space.
      2. Flip all foot soldiers to the "entrenched" (red) side in that borough.
      3. Deploy "patrolling" (purple side) foot soldiers equal to the number of players in the borough that is now under threat (top of the stack).

    Foot soldiers

    • They only occupy the circles matching their symbol.
    • There can only be 1 per space.
    • "Entrenched" foot soldiers (in fallen boroughs) will cause 1 damage to any player fighter moving through them, even if they are moved due to an effect.
    • When deploying foot soldiers, place that many in empty spaces of the indicated borough.
      • If the borough is fallen, place them with the "entrenched" (red) side up, otherwise "patrolling" (purple) side up.
      • If the effect doesn't specify where to place them, the players choose.
      • If all spaces are in use when foot soldiers would be deployed, instead deploy them in the borough with the next highest starting space number.
    • When a player uses a maneuver action, they may choose 1 of their fighters to remove foot soldiers. Each time the fighter moves over a "patrolling" (purple) foot soldier, remove that foot soldier.
      • Foot soldiers cannot be removed due to other movement effects. It must be due to a maneuver action.
• Special Rules: Krang
  • • At the end of each round, Krang's initiative card advances the threat marker 1 space + 1 space for each doomsday machine on its active side.
    • Each time the threat marker reaches the end of the track, place the top dimension X marker on the next numbered space.
      • All areas underneath the markers are in dimension X, while areas to the right are in our world.
      • Players and enemy fighters may move in and out of dimension X.
      • Some of Krang's effects are stronger in dimension X.
      • If dimension X expands 4 times, the players lose.
    • Each of Krang's doomsday machines starts on the active side (check mark).
    • To "deactivate" a doomsday machine, you must end a maneuver action with 1 of your fighters adjacent to it and discard 1 card from your hand.
      • You can only deactivate 1 machine per maneuver action.
      • You must have a fighter adjacent to the machine after all movement is finished (it doesn't have to be a fighter you moved).
      • You cannot deactivate a machine when using other movement effects.
      • The yellow wires show which spaces the machine is adjacent to.
    • When the technodrome traps initiative card is revealed, reveal the top card of the traps deck and roll the "die of ultimate destruction". Resolve the corresponding effect on the card.
      • A roll of "X" means there is no effect.
      • After resolving the trap, place it in a discard pile for the traps deck. If the deck runs out, shuffle the discard to form a new deck.
      • Before resolving the die effect, any player can discard a card from their hand to reroll it. This can be done any number of times.
    • The threat level is the highest numbered space with a dimension X marker.
• Special Rules: Minions
  • • Bebop & Rocksteady
      • They are considered to be a single fighter.
      • They will move toward the villain when apart.
    • Baxter Stockman
      • He has 1 big attack that scales with the size of the target's discard pile.
      • When a player fighter enters a space with a mouser token, the player must discard the top card of their deck.
        • This happens when moving through the space.
        • This can happen when moving by some effect.
    • Wingnut
      • He moves himself and other fighters often.
    • Leatherhead
      • He will advance the threat track and he's hard to take down.
    • Slash
      • At the end of each round, his initiative card adds 1 fury card from his supply to his discard pile.
        • Other action cards will gain bonuses based on the number of fury cards in the discard pile.
      • When Slash plays the deception card, any fury cards in the discard are also shuffled into his deck.
        • When a fury card would be played, immediately discard it and play the next card from his deck.
    • Rat King
      • While a player fighter is in a space with a rat token, their defense value is reduced by 2 (to a minimum of 0).
• Allies & Henchmen

  • These are new characters that only appear in the initiative deck.

    Setup

    • Separately shuffle the ally and henchman decks and place them near the board.
    • Flip the top card of the ally deck face up.
    • When creating the initiative deck, add 2 random face-down henchman cards + the "friends in odd places" initiative card.

    Recruitment and Effects

    • When resolving the end of round effects on the "friends in odd places" initiative card, do the following:
      • Check if there is a player fighter in the numbered starting space matching the face up ally card. If so, add that ally to the initiative deck (for the next round).
      • If no one is in the space, discard the ally and add a face down henchman to the initiative deck.
      • Flip the next ally on top of the deck face up.
    • Be sure to include any new ally/henchmen cards when shuffling the initiative deck for the next round.
    • When an ally/henchman is revealed in the initiative row, resolve it's "right now" effect.
    • When resolving the "end of round" effect on an ally/henchman, check if there is a card of the opposite type to the right of it. If so, permanently remove both cards from the initiative deck.
      • Do not resolve the end of round effect on the 2nd card.
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