Before chess, there were the ancient Tafl games of the Nordic & Celtic people. Rooted in the same idea of military strategy, but with a less complicated rule set. Due to the less than stellar documentation of these games, there's a number of ways to setup the board, and approach your strategy, but the basics are always the same. Two teams, a king and his...
ダグエイトチェス (DaG Eight Chess) is a two player abstract game from Japan, a mix of Chess and Stratego on a smaller 5*5 chequer board. Players have a small Chess army that move across the board, but as face-down tokens. The pieces are one each of King, Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishop, and three Pawns. These pieces all move and attack as in normal Chess. But if a...
Dama is a classic two-player strategy board game that tests player’s tactical skills and foresight. Players take turns moving their pawns diagonally forward, aiming to capture their opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. The ultimate goal is strategically maneuvering your pieces to the opponent’s side of the board, crowning them and enhancing their...
Dark Spires is a small box 2-player abstract strategy game. A ring of 8 realm cards form the playing area. Players will summon their spire dice onto these cards and move them around the ring in an attempt to block and banish their opponent's spires while resurrecting their own. If your opponent is unable to either move or summon on their turn, you win!...
The players roll the dice to move their "caps" around the board. If a player lands on another cap or a stack of caps, that player captures the stack by placing his cap on top of the stack. A player then seeks to return that stack of caps to home-base to keep them secured and free his own caps from the stack. The violet spaces are safe spaces where caps...
Adults always play on the blue track, children on the winding brown track. Each player receives a figure that he places on the starting position at the beginning of the game. Each player receives 3 ducats as entry fee, the remaining ducats go into the bank. The winner of a game is whoever brings home 10 ducats first. The blue track (adults) At the...
Dustlings is a fast-paced, crazy game with lots of take that and capture the flag elements. Each of players are led by a selected faction of creatures living in the Forgotten Corner under your bed. Grublins and Crawlies have a clear goal - to lick the rolled hard Candy as quickly as possible into their world and which slips away whenever you try to catch...
Échec aux Chevaliers is the tranposition into a board game of the fights that took place in the Middle Ages between the Knights and the men-at-arms. We play with two players, even if it is possible to play with four. The object of the game is to successfully capture the opponent's citadel and stay there for an entire turn without being captured. Échec aux...
One player (Perry Clifton) pursues up to 4 burglars. Each piece moves on it'ts own track. Movement is determined by a die. Each space on the game board represents 1 minute. The burglars have a 10 minute headstart. If Perry Clifton overtakes a burglar, the burglar is caught and eliminated from the game. If a burglar reaches space 88 he has escaped. Perry...
Do you have what it takes to capture THE HILL? Think fast as the electronic commander orders your troops forward. Your army will be called at random, so be ready! Then move your soldiers quickly -- one at a time -- and only when they're called. But beware! There are other armies alongside that also want THE HILL! You struggle upward! The pace quickens as...
Explosion is played on a 6x6 grid with pieces having different colors on each side. Each turn a player adds one piece to the board, either to an empty space or a space with their color showing. Each space has a capacity, which is the number of orthogonally adjacent spaces; if the space played in is now at capacity, it explodes, meaning the pieces are...
' Faerie Chess' is a new take on Chess, featuring both the classic Chess units and 14 new unit types with new abilities/movements. The game offers a 2 in 1 experience, in that it contains all of the components for a classic Chess game, and the new components for Faerie Chess. The new units added to the game include: Soldier, Chamberlain, Peasant, Tower...