TraceDrag across adjacent lettered tiles (any of the 8 directions) to spell a real word. Commit it to claim every tile you cross within your reach.
ConnectWords stay supplied only while they overlap — share a tile — back to your keep. A word that shares no tile with your network is stranded.
SeverTrace through an enemy tile to cut it. Cutting a load-bearing crossing strands everything downstream — it collapses into reclaimable rubble (letters intact — every loss leaves a trace).
StrikeOr spend the word as ammunition: the spear fires from the trace's tip — a stronger word reaches further and hits harder.
WinBreach the enemy hearth and the keep falls. Striking is the only path to victory — territory is the means, never the end.
