Scouts of Æternia is a game of tactical skirmishing for 1–4 players. Explore one of the wilder parts of Æternia as scouts tasked with mapping the ground for your main force to move in and take control of a region lost to lawless robbers. Follow tips from your reconnaissance contacts to gather military intelligence in targeted locations while preventing enemy scouts from doing the same. Scouts, represented by dice, move across a square grid made up of 9 map tiles. Combat can be sought out or avoided - when a Scout runs out of wounds, he is removed. Win by being the first to gather the necessary intelligence or by knocking your opponents' Scouts out of the game. This is the first game set in the indigo woods and red soil of the fantasy world of Æternia. - description by designer