Chirality

The Board

A Penrose rosette of Thick (gold) and Thin (mint) rhombi. Five Gates sit on the outer fringe: each is a four-tile formation of two outward-jutting Thin tiles flanking two Thick tiles. The central Throne is a five-Thick Star at the rosette's center, outlined gold.

Setup

Pick a setup mode in the HUD:

• 8/8 (default, 2P): each player claims two Gates, auto-filling 4 pieces each. 8 reserves.
• 4/12: each claims one Gate. 12 reserves.
• 1-piece: each places one piece on any Gate tile. 15 reserves.
• Inner Garrison: each garrisons one Inner Ring Star with 5 pieces. 11 reserves.

Movement

A piece's options come from the tile it stands on:

• Piece on a Thick tile → moves to any edge-adjacent empty Thin tile.
• Piece on a Thin tile → moves to any edge- or vertex-adjacent empty Thick tile.

Or Muster a reserve onto an empty tile of a Gate you currently occupy. A Garrison on an Inner Ring Star unlocks Remote-Muster to any Gate on the same half of the board (Thick tiles only).

Capture

After every action, captures resolve automatically:

• A Thin piece is captured by 1 enemy Thick neighbor across an edge.
• A Thick piece is captured by 2+ enemy Thin neighbors across an edge or vertex.
• A piece on a Throne tile is exposed: just 1 enemy attacker captures it.
• Garrison occupants are uncapturable. Garrison Moats auto-capture enemies inside them at end of turn.
• Initiative: the active player resolves their captures first. A piece that moves into an attacked tile dies if its move didn't remove all the attackers; if the move killed them all, the piece survives.

Winning

Occupy all five Throne tiles (a hard win, since Throne pieces are exposed and easily attacked), or eliminate every opposing army. Last surviving player wins.

HUD Options

The HUD lets you pick board variant (default + 25 generated Penrose-legal variants, or Random), player count (2–5), setup mode, Blitz (2 actions per turn), and assign each seat as Human or AI.