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Starting Combat

Dragons are fiercely territorial creatures. While your main goal is to deliver dragon riders, if you encounter another dragon along the way, you'll enter combat with them. Engaging in combat allows you to deal damage and disrupt your opponents, as well as earn Blood Points, which can be exchanged for extra resources and even Victory Points.

Zones of Control

Combat automatically begins when the active player moves onto a space next to an opponent, unless that player is Roosted. The six spaces surrounding your current location are called your Zone of Control. Whenenver you stop on a space in an opponent's zone of control, or if an opponent stops in yours, you must engage in combat with them before activating any effects of the space you stopped on - including dropping off a Dragon Rider!

Engaging in combat does not count as an action. You can engage in combat with the same opponent only once per turn. Leaving and re-entering their zone of control on the same turn will not trigger another combat. If you remain in an opponent's zone of control after combat, they can attack you again on their next turn though!

Zones of control cannot cross the thick red borders around certain spaces, such as Villages. A dragon that is outside one of these spaces cannot trigger combat with one that is inside the space.

Roosted players cannot initiate combat. Engaging in combat with a roosted player does not blood points to either player. You can still deal Damage to them though, so it's possible to move a roosted player if they're blocking your path.

Combat cannot be triggered between two inactive players. If an inactive player is moved next to another inactive player by any effect, combat isn't triggered unless one of those players chooses to attack on their turn.

Voluntary Combat

On certain spaces that can be occupied by more than one dragon at once, combat doesn't trigger automatically, but the active player can optionally choose to engage in combat:

• with another dragon on the same Dragon Rider Pickup Space
• with another dragon in the Caves
• with another dragon in the same Village. Remember that you can't trade with the village this turn if you engage in combat there!
• with a dragon in their Zone of Control that they haven't fought this turn (i.e. because that player was moved their outside of their turn by another player's effect)

Dragons inside the Portal cannot engage in combat.

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