There is an unprecedented military build-up as a new front emerges in the Balkan States, with both the NATO and Russian superpowers vying for control. Forces are mobilizing in the region at an alarming rate with the UN summit deadline looming. There are skirmishes every day in different territories as both sides struggle for control. You have been tasked...
Place the termite mounds on the empty gameboard. The first playing piece also brings the meerkat into the game, and from its position it always looks horizontally and vertically in all four directions - but never over one of the termite mounds! You cannot place pieces on the spaces it can see! However, a termite mound blocks its line of view and you can...
Surmount is an attempt to improve on an already very good game, Mark Steere's Oust. Whereas in Oust much of the board is made illegal to play on, especially as the game progresses, every empty cell is a legal placement in Surmount. Anyone familiar with Oust will wonder how you can allow unchecked growth in a game where larger groups capture smaller ones....
From the rulebook: In Surprise Attack!, each player is the commander of a military force—one has his army encamped in the middle of the battlefield at the time when the other hurls his forces into action from the surrounding forest, launching the surprise attack. The defender suffers early losses, then regroups and attempts to move two of his valuable...
Surround! is played on any kind of grid; six example grids are provided including standard square, hexagonal, and triangular grids. On a turn a player colors in one grid space. The object is to completely surround any connected group of spaces of the opposing color (including just a single space) with your own spaces and/or the edge of the grid. Spaces do...
Survival Chess: Tartan Grid is a complete, stand-alone abstract strategy game built upon the timeless mechanics of chess. It strips away the concepts of checkmate and royal pieces, reducing the conflict to its purest, most brutal form: a war of total annihilation under a single, unforgiving law — capture is mandatory. The iconic "Tartan Grid" starting...
RulesAn abstract game played on a hexagonal board of 61 spaces. 9 . . . . . 8 . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . 4 . . . . . . . . i 3 . . . . . . . h 2 . . . . . . g 1 . . . . . f a b c d e Reminiscent of Go, but the rules are essentially: Gameplay alternates between the two players, who each have their own color. A player's...
The game is played on grid in the shape of an X or a cross. The object is to get your leader to the goal on the opposite side of the board. The players choose the red or yellow pieces. Each player starts with a set of ten pieces: one Leader (a larger disc), four Companions and five Aids. There are also six additional Companions of each color and eight...
A misterious collector wants to get all the incredible creatures on the planet. She has selected us to complete her collection, taking us to an island of unknown whereabouts where the strangest beings on the planet live. Became an explorer in a truly beautiful and unique tabletop game experience. SUWANGO is a highly thematic game where players must fulfill...
Svenskt brädspel (Swedish Tables), more commonly known as just Brädspel or Bräde, is a Backgammon relative native to Sweden. It's the last surviving member of the 17th-century Verkehren/Revertier family of games, that mainly differ from Backgammon in forbidding the closing of the first eleven points - making it possible to win by "locking out" one's...