# Takeover: capture enough, and the game is yours.

> The Hexodic win that counts every stone you have taken — even the ones your opponent Placed again.

Takeover is the Hexodic aggressor's win: at the end of your turn you have captured 6 or more enemy stones in the game. Every kind of capture counts, including Echo-Capture and Move capture.

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Takeover is one of Hexodic's three wins: a player wins by Takeover when, at the end of their own turn, they have captured 6 or more enemy stones over the whole game. Captured stones return to their owner's reserve and can be Placed again, but the capture count never goes down.

Reviewed 2026-09-15 against the Hexodic rules engine.

## What counts toward Takeover

- Encirclement captures from the end-of-turn [capture](/rules/capture) check.
- [Echo-Capture](/rules/echo-capture) captures, which can take a whole sealed group in one turn.
- Move captures onto a lower enemy cell.

The count is cumulative for the whole game, so a player can reach Takeover even when the opponent keeps re-Placing the same stones.

## Playing for Takeover

Takeover favours the attacker who controls height: encirclement needs the target on tier 1 or 2 and surrounded by heavier ground. A player close to Takeover with a charge left is especially dangerous, because an Echo-Capture can finish several captures at once. Capture count is also the tiebreak's third step if the game reaches the half-move cap.

## Related

- [Network](/rules/network) and [Strangle](/rules/strangle) — the other two wins.
- [Glossary: Takeover](/glossary#takeover)
- [Deterministic strategy games](/deterministic-strategy-game)
- [All rules](/rules)

[Get the Hexodic app](/download) and count your captures.

## Where to go next

- [Capture](https://hexodic.com/rules/capture) — Every way a stone can leave the board.
- [Strategy](https://hexodic.com/strategy) — The principles that follow from the rules, not from habit.
- [How it works](https://hexodic.com/how-it-works) — The whole turn, in plain language.

## Questions this page answers

- What is the Takeover win in Hexodic?
- How many captures do you need to win Hexodic?