Navia Dratp is unusual among collectible miniatures games in that it is a game of complete information, meaning that each player knows everything there is to know about the game state at any given time. The gameplay does not incorporate random elements of any kind, and all game pieces are visible to both players at all times.
Rules
What follows is a general overview of the mechanics of the game. Navia Dratp is a board game, played on a 7 by 7 grid. Each player begins the game with seven Black Gulled Stones, and two Red Gulled Stones, which can be roughly equated with the pawns of chess or shogi. In addition, each player chooses a Navia and seven Maseitai from his or her collection of pieces. Navias are prepainted miniatures of anime-style females. They serve roughly the same function as a chess or shogi king in that the capture of an opponent's Navia wins the game. Maseitai comprise the bulk of the collectible figures, and are generally more powerful than Gulled or Navias. Each Maseitai and Navia figure has a plastic disc called the compass that indicates the piece's movement abilities. By paying Gyullas crystals, which are earned by moving Gulled stones or by capturing your opponent's Maseitai, players can dratpNavia or Maseitai pieces, which allows the player to flip over the piece's compass, granting it different movement capabilities or other abilities. In the Navia's case, dratping it wins the game. This flipping over of pieces to grant them additional powers is similar to promotion in the game of shogi or checkers. Players take turns moving and/or dratping pieces. Captures are made by moving onto a space occupied by an opponent's piece, as in chess and shogi. The Navia and Gulled begin the game already on the playfield, while Maseitai start in a special area called the Keep and are brought into play through "summoning" which simply means that a player spends his or her turn by placing a Maseitai from his keep onto one of eight summon squares. The dratped form of some Maseitai have special invoke abilities that offer alternatives to the basic actions of moving, dratping and summoning. A player may not take their own "Maseitai". The game can be won in one of five ways:
Capturing an opponent's Navia
Dratping your own Navia
Performing a "Navia Goal" by emptying your Keep of Maseitai and moving your Navia over the back line of the opponent's side of the board
If a player's Navia is repeatedly put into check such that the same board position repeats itself three times, the player whose Navia was being put in check wins
A player may concede the game
Product line
Navia Dratp was manufactured by Bandai, and was sold as Starter Sets and Booster packs. The Starter Sets contain a board and equipment for one person to play, including a predetermined Navia, a set of Gulled Stones and Gyullas crystals, seven predetermined Maseitai, and cards describing each Maseitai and the Navia. Boosters contain three randomly selectedMaseitai or Navia. Bandai has stopped manufacturing the game, with the website now defunct and the game considered out-of-print. Each Starter Set contained:
