We are happy to publish this month a nice classic of the abstracts category: Lines of Action from Claude Soucie, introduced to the gaming public by Sid Sackson's book "A Gamut of Games" in 1969 is now available on Board Game Arena 50 years later!
Do you like abstracts? We do! It's a beautiful game category with simple and elegant mechanics, easy to explain but holding great depth that is really rewarding for the players willing to study the game strategies.
Lines of Action is one of these games that has a really simple set of material that almost everyone has or can quickly set up from scratch (a chessboard and 24 pieces in 2 colors), and that spreads just by word of mouth from one game night to another as they are just so simple to teach and so nice to play.
On their turn, players move a piece of their color:
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~ horizontally, vertically or diagonally
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~ from exactly as many spaces as there are pieces (friendly or enemy) on the line chosen to move
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~ with the possibility of jumping over friendly pieces, but not over enemy pieces
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~ and a piece can land on an enemy piece to capture it.
The goal of the game is not to capture all enemy pieces, but to manage to connect all of your pieces together horizontally, vertically or diagonally, while half start on one side of the board, and half on the other side.
Those of you who played Alveole will notice similarities... of course! Indeed Alveole is a reimplementation of Lines of Action on an hexagonal board. Other games have been derived from it, but Lines of Action is the original game, and now you can play it!
Enjoy!
Lines of Action 集結棋
我們很高興的在本月公布一個抽象類經典作品:克勞德·蘇西的集結棋,由Sid Sackson 1969 年的書《A Gamut of Games》向遊戲大眾介紹的 50 年後,終於登陸桌遊競技場!
現在就開始遊玩!
你喜歡抽象遊戲嗎?
我們喜歡!
這是個優美的遊戲類別,簡單而優雅的遊戲機制,規則易於解釋,但遊戲本身富含深度,值得玩家們研究各種遊戲策略。
Lines of Action集結棋所需的器具簡單到幾乎每個人都能輕鬆準備好(一個棋盤,以及兩色共二十四個棋子)。而這遊戲簡單上手及好玩的兩個優點,導致遊戲本身能在每個遊戲之夜裏,藉由玩家們的 口耳相傳迅速傳播開來。
當輪到玩家的回合時,玩家移動自己的棋子:
- ~ 棋子可以沿著橫、縱或斜線,直線移動
- ~ 其移動步數必須正好等於該線上所有棋子(不分敵我)的總數,
- ~ 途中可以跳過自己的棋子,但無法跳過對手的棋子,
- ~ 降落在對手棋子所在的位置吃掉該棋子。
玩過 Alveole 集結棋 的玩家應該會注意到相似之處... 沒錯! 事實上, Alveole集結棋 是Lines of Action集結棋 移植 到六角形棋盤上的一個新版本。 陸續有其他相似的遊戲從Lines of Action集結棋變化而生, 但Lines of Action集結棋仍是最原始的版本, 而你現在可以玩它了! 請盡情享受!