Laser tanks have a long but focused reach and can be recharged at the home base. Other tanks explode with varying degrees of force and pattern. Some can be recharged back at your home base but most are destroyed when they use their single attack. The playing field is marked out with hexagons. Home bases are at opposite ends of opposite edges.
Players also place one large obstacle each within a restricted area of their side of the board.
There are teleport chambers along the edges of the board that allow a tank to move to a specific square along each of the other edges of the board. These teleport chambers can also be destroyed by the tanks. Just to make things interesting, each tank is covered by a 'stealth shield' that hides the type of tank from your opponent while allowing you to peer up the tail pipe and check out the tank type. So you never know just which sort of tank is creeping up on you. Five of the tanks on the opposing side are of known types.