On your turn you can move a Ready unit: from your base to a battlefield, or from a battlefield back to your base.
Moving exhausts the unit. It can't move again until it readies at the start of your next turn. Moving costs no runes.
Several Ready units going to the same place can move together, as one move.
Going home is a move too: from a battlefield back to your base. A unit can't go straight from one battlefield to the other.
Moving into a battlefield you don't control contests it. If nobody else is there, there's a short pause where each of you may respond with a card, you first (Chapter 4 explains how). If nobody does anything, it's yours.
If the opponent has units there, you fight. Chapter 4 is all about fights.
Kinkou Initiate: a 3-Might unit, ready to walk in. (Its text only works as it is played.)
Vanguard Sergeant: 4 Might.
Quick check
You move two Ready units from your base to a battlefield. What state are they in afterwards?
A battlefield someone has moved into without controlling it.
From the Core Rules (2026-10-09): 144–145 — Standard Move · 188 — Control · 415–416 — Exhaust and Ready
Try it on the table
3 drills
1Into the Open
You're on 7 and B is already scored. A is empty and nobody controls it. Drag your Ready Kinkou Initiate from your base to A and Confirm: moving exhausts it, and A becomes yours.
Need a hint?
Drag Kinkou Initiate onto Battlefield A and Confirm.
You're on 7 and B is already scored; A is empty. Take A with both Kinkou Initiate and Vanguard Sergeant there. A is settled right after a move arrives, before you can move again, so a unit that isn't in that move is left behind. Select both, then drag.
Need a hint?
Click both units so they're selected, drag them onto A together, and Confirm.
You're on 7 and B is already scored; A is empty. Your Vanguard Sergeant is Ready at B, but from a battlefield a unit can only go home. Get it to A this turn. You have First Mate ("When you play me, ready another unit") and three runes.
Need a hint?
Move the Sergeant home first. Then play First Mate and ready the Sergeant, and drag it to A.
