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!
Redovi od akcije
Sretni smo što je objavljivanje ovog meseca klasika lepo apstrakata kategorije: Redovi od akcije iz Claude Soucie, uveo gaming javnosti Sid Sacksonknjigu „opsega boja za igre” 1969 je sada dostupna na brodu Igra Arena 50 godina kasnije!
Pusti sad to!
Volite li apstrakata?
Mi radimo!
To je lepa igra kategorija sa jednostavna i elegantna mehanika, lako objasniti, ali drži velike dubine koja je stvarno koristan za igrača koji je voljan da studira igre strategije.
Linije od akcije je jedna od ove igre koji je stvarno jednostavan set materijal koji skoro svi imaju ili brzo možete podesiti od nule (љahovska i 24 komada u 2 boje), i to širi se samo usmenim iz jednu utakmicu u drugi kao na y su samo tako jednostavno naučiti i drago mi je da se igra.
Na svoj red, igrači premesti komad njihove boje:
- ~ horizontalno, vertikalno ili dijagonalno
- ~ od tačno onoliko prostora koliko ima komada (prijateljska ili neprijateljska) na liniji izabran da premestite
- ~ sa mogućnošću skakanje preko prijateljski komade, ali ne preko protivničke figure
- ~ i po komadu, mogu da slete na protivnikova figura da ga uhvatite.
Oni od vas koji je igrao Alveole primjetićete sličnosti... naravno! Zaista je na reimplementation linijama od akcije na dasku za heksagonalni, Alveole. Druge igre su izvedeni iz njega, ali linije od akcija originalnu igru, i sada možete da reprodukujete to! Uživajte!