PRIZMIK™

Rules and Instructions

Overview

• PRIZMIK is a two-player abstract strategy game played on an 8×8 board.
• Each player controls nested fleets made of Bases, Ships, and Fighters.
• On your turn you do exactly one action: Deploy, Move, or Capture.
• The goal is to capture all opposing bases (or make further base captures impossible).

Pieces

• Base — immobile anchor. Can deploy ships (with fighters inside).
• Ship — mobile unit. Can capture bases only.
• Fighter — fast unit. Can capture ships and fighters (not bases).

Nests (Stacks)

• Full Fleet: Base + Ship + Fighter (one stack on one square).
• Ship Stack: Ship + Fighter (one stack on one square).
• Non-nests: Ship only, Fighter only.
• Important: movement never breaks a nest. A stack moves as one piece occupying one square.
• A base can never hold a ship without a fighter. (So a base deploy always produces a Ship+Fighter stack.)

Board & Coordinates

• Board uses standard chess coordinates: a1 through h8.
• Red starts on rank 1 and advances toward rank 8.
• Blue starts on rank 8 and advances toward rank 1.

Setup

• Each player begins with three Full Fleets on their back rank.
• Each player also has three reserve fleets used for promotion.

Turn

• Players alternate turns. Red goes first.
• Each turn you must do exactly one: Deploy, Move, or Capture.
• Unproductive moves are allowed. Passing is not.

Deployment

1) Deploy from a Full Fleet (Base+Ship+Fighter)

• A Full Fleet may deploy a Ship+Fighter stack to an empty square:
  • Left
  • Right
  • Forward (toward the opponent)
• The Base stays behind on its square.
• The deployed Ship+Fighter remains nested and occupies one square.

2) Deploy from a Ship+Fighter stack

• A Ship+Fighter stack may deploy a Fighter to an empty square:
  • Left, Right, Forward, or Back (orthogonal, one square)
• The fighter can only be deployed if it is actually nested in that ship.
• After deploying, the origin square becomes a Ship-only piece.

Movement

• Bases do not move.
• Full Fleets do not move.
• Ships and Ship+Fighter stacks may move to an empty square:
  • 1 square in any direction, or
  • 2 squares orthogonally (N/S/E/W) if the middle square is empty.
• Fighters may move 1 square in any direction to an empty square.

Capture

1) Ship captures Base

• Ships (including Ship+Fighter stacks) can capture Bases only.
• A ship captures a base from an adjacent square:
  • Left
  • Right
  • Forward
• The base is removed and the ship (or ship stack) moves into the base’s square intact.
• Ship+Fighter cannot capture fighters.

2) Fighter captures Ship / Fighter

• Fighters cannot capture bases.
• Fighters capture ships (ship-only or ship+fighter) only from orthogonally adjacent squares (N/S/E/W).
• Fighters capture fighters only from diagonally adjacent squares.
• On a capture, the captured piece (or stack) is removed and the capturing fighter moves into its square.

Promotion (Reserve Fleet)

• If a fighter-only reaches the far rank (Red: 8, Blue: 1):
• And the corresponding home square (same file on your back rank: Red rank 1, Blue rank 8) is empty,
• And you have at least one reserve fleet remaining, then:
• The fighter disappears from the far-rank square.
• A new Full Fleet (Base+Ship+Fighter) is created on the home square.
• Your reserve fleets decrease by 1.
• Promotion can trigger from a fighter arriving via move, deploy, or capture.

Win

• You win if you capture all enemy bases currently on the board.
• You also win if it becomes impossible for your opponent to capture any remaining bases.