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!
行动方向
我们很高兴本月出版了一个抽象类游戏的经典作品:由Claude Soucie开发的行动方向, 它早在1969年就被Sid Sackson撰写的《A Gamut of Games》介绍给游戏界,在BGA登陆却用了整整50年!
现在就玩吧!
你喜欢抽象游戏吗?
不管你喜不喜欢,反正我们很喜欢!
这是一个机制简单优雅的游戏类别, 规则浅显,但深不可测, 喜欢研究游戏策略的玩家必定有所斩获。
行动方向就是其中之一,它的游戏配件极其简单,几乎每个人都可以凑出一套(一个棋盘和2种颜色的24颗棋子),并因其上手简单且乐趣无穷而在玩家间口口相传。
玩家在其回合按照以下规则移动一颗自己的棋子:
横向、纵向或对角线- 移动步数恰好等于该方向上的棋子数(不分敌我)
- ~ 可以跳过自己的棋子,但不能跳过对方的
- ~ 可以跳到对方棋子上而吃掉它
玩过Alveole 集结棋的人会注意到相似之处..。 这是当然的! 事实上, Alveole 是行动方向的六角形重制版。 行动方向是这类游戏的开山鼻祖, 而你现在可以玩了! 好好享受吧!