Original strategy game

Sartaba Dominion

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Start Dominion

Move your pawns, reveal hidden flags, isolate enemy pawns, and control the hex map.

ⓘ How to start

Game mode

Single Screen/PC - configure your AI opponent.

Green

Purple

AI difficulty

Play

Green to move

Green 0 - Purple 0Win by eliminating all enemy pawns or capturing the Nexus.

Dominion

Sartaba Dominion - Game menu

How to start

Choose Vs AI for a local game or Vs. Friend to create or join an online game.
For local play, choose who controls Green and Purple, then press Start game.
Each side starts with five pawns around its Nexus Fortress. Green moves first.
Move one pawn per turn. Build connected territory from your Nexus and keep your pawns supplied.
Reach hidden Flags, link a pawn to stabilize them, and turn captured Flags into forward supply anchors.
Win by eliminating every enemy pawn or by capturing the enemy Nexus.

How to play

Click one of your pawns to show its legal moves, then click a highlighted hex. Legal moves may include moving, attacking a pawn, linking to a hidden Flag, or attacking the enemy Nexus.

Owned tiles form supply lines. If a pawn is cut away from your Nexus or captured Flags, its supply bar starts to fall.
Flags are not stepped on. A pawn stands next to a hidden Flag and spends a turn linking to it.
A linked pawn holds the stabilization task. Moving that pawn breaks the link and resets progress.
Attacks depend on local support. A lone pawn cannot push a defended pawn by itself.
Use the move history to review supply cuts, Flag captures, Nexus pressure, and eliminations.

Pawn - Your only movable unit. Occupies tiles, attacks with support, and creates territory.
Controlled Tile - Preserves supply and ownership but does not attack.
Flag Stronghold - A captured Flag becomes a forward supply anchor.
Nexus Fortress - Your core anchor. Capturing the enemy Nexus wins the game.
Supply Path - Dotted line showing connection back to a Flag or Nexus.
Unsupplied - Darker territory and warning bars indicate cut-off groups.

Rules

Starting Position

Each player starts with one fixed Nexus Fortress and five pawns.
The Nexus is a structure, not a pawn. It cannot move, attack, or add attack support.
Only one pawn may occupy a tile.

Movement

On your turn, move one Pawn to an adjacent hex.
You may enter neutral tiles, your controlled tiles, or enemy controlled tiles.
A pawn may move only one adjacent hex. It cannot jump over tiles or move two hexes at once.
You cannot move onto a friendly occupied tile.

Attacks And Elimination

A pawn may attack an enemy occupied tile only when the defender is locally outnumbered.
The moving pawn counts as the attacker, but it needs friendly occupied support around the target.
A connected defender generally needs two attacking pawns to be pushed.
An isolated pawn needs only one attacker to be defeated, but a connected pawn needs two attacking pawns.
A pushed pawn retreats only into the three legal directions away from the attack.
A retreat tile must be adjacent, empty, and either friendly territory or neutral territory.
If no legal retreat exists, the pawn is eliminated.

Influence And Connectivity

Controlled and occupied tiles maintain supply lines back to a friendly Nexus or captured Flag.
A tile is occupied only while a pawn stands on it.
When a pawn leaves a tile, that tile remains controlled by that pawn's player.
Controlled tiles preserve ownership and connectivity, but they do not attack.
Captured Flags and Nexus Fortresses are supply anchors, but they are not pawns and never add attack strength.
A controlled tile changes hands only when an opponent pawn occupies it.
A neutral tile becomes controlled only when it is fully surrounded by one player's occupied or controlled tiles.
A surrounded group of empty controlled tiles changes hands when every border tile around it belongs to the opponent.
A pawn is automatically eliminated if every surrounding tile is occupied by opponent pawns.
Connectivity is traced only through owned territory to a friendly Nexus or captured Flag.

Flags And Supply

Two hidden objectives are placed when the game starts. Both are real Flags.
A pawn adjacent to a hidden Flag can spend a turn linking to it. The pawn does not enter the Flag tile.
The pawn linked to a Flag process cannot be pushed normally, but can still die if supply collapses.
A player with strict local pawn superiority around an objective starts stabilizing it.
Flag stabilization requires four successful rounds of local superiority.
If adjacent pawn pressure is equal, the objective becomes contested and progress resets.
Captured Flags become supply anchors for forward groups.
Captured Flags can be recaptured only when the opponent has more adjacent pawns than the owner.
Flag recapture takes four successful rounds of local pawn superiority. If pressure is broken or tied, progress resets.

Supply And Victory

Pawns are supplied when connected through owned territory to a friendly Nexus or captured Flag.
Unsupplied pawns lose supply over three rounds. Reconnecting restores full supply.
A pawn is eliminated when supply reaches empty or when attacked with no legal retreat.
The game ends only by elimination victory or Nexus capture victory.

Nexus Fortress

Each player has one fixed Nexus Fortress deep inside the starting side.
The Nexus is a structure, not a pawn: it cannot move, attack, or add attack support.
The Nexus anchors territory and acts as an alternative victory objective.
An enemy with more adjacent pawns than the defender can choose to attack the Nexus.
Being adjacent to the Nexus is not enough; the attacking player must spend a turn attacking the Nexus.
Nexus capture requires five successful rounds of local pawn superiority.
If Nexus pressure becomes tied or the defender has more local pawns, capture progress resets and the Nexus returns to defended state.
Capturing the enemy Nexus wins the game immediately.

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About Sartaba Dominion

Sartaba Dominion is an original Sartaba Mind Games strategy game built around supply lines, encirclement, forward strongholds, and Nexus siege warfare on a compact hex board.
The game is designed to feel like a minimalist neon tactical board game: quick to read, tense to play, and deep enough for careful positioning.
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