[2] As the places on the tiles are too small to place the actual cards on, the locations of armies, objects, and towns are represented on the map as numbered and colored army, location, and town markers, respectively.
Map tiles use hexagon shapes with pictures to show the environment.
They include creatures, spells, artifacts, towns, locations, and heroes.
Many reviews held the clumsiness of analyzing positions using markers as their only criticism of the game.
Players then take turns selecting face-down map tiles and connecting them to the previous ones as they please.