HEL: The Last Saga - Hnefatafl Viking Chess

Deutsche Auflagen/Editionen:

• HEL: The Last Saga - Hnefatafl Viking Chess
  • Mythic Games

Fremdsprachige Auflagen/Editionen:

• HEL: The Last Saga - Hnefatafl Viking Chess
  • Mythic Games
• HEL: The Last Saga - Hnefatafl Viking Chess
  • Mythic Games
• HEL: The Last Saga - Hnefatafl Viking Chess
  • Mythic Games
• HEL: The Last Saga - Hnefatafl Viking Chess
  • Mythic Games

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Beschreibung:
Eigenständiges (traditionelles) Wikinger-Schach Spiel. Die Spielfiguren können aber auch als Miniaturen im Spiel "Hel: The Last Saga" eingesetzt werden (Daher ist diese Spiel auch als eigenständiger Eintrag verfasst. Hier geht's zum klassischen Spieleintrag von Hnefatafl).


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Hnefatafl is a traditional Viking game dating back to the Middle Ages, and the name literally means ‘The King's Table’. It is a very popular strategy game among the Scandinavian peoples and is often mentioned in the Nordic sagas. In one of these sagas, a player even kills his opponent because of a disagreement during the game! The game was subsequently introduced by the Vikings to the various countries they plundered or conquered.

Hnefatafl comes in a beautiful box containing 20 small statuettes of Viking soldiers, 1 larger statuette representing the King, and 24 statuettes of hostile enemies. All of these pieces will look like aged antique-style bone (soldiers) or wood (hostiles). The neoprene game board with stitched edges integrates a Viking iconography specific to HEL: The Last Saga. It is accompanied by another cloth game board that is more easily transportable. Finally, the box contains a small printed cloth bag in which you can put the tokens and the cloth game board and thus carry your Hnefatafl game in a practical and space-saving way.

Viking chess is a 2-player game that takes around 15 minutes to play. It is simple, elegant, and subtle at the same time. It is a game that can get you hooked, in the vein of Abalone, Quarto, Go and other great classics. It is a game of attack and defence, in which the attacker tries to capture the King, and the defender tries to protect the King by taking him to one of the four corner squares, known as fortresses, which are inaccessible to the attackers, just like the fortress in the central square where the King begins. The pawns move orthogonally from one or more squares to a free space, in the same way as the rook in chess.

Both attackers and defenders can capture an enemy piece (and thus remove it from the board) by positioning two of their pieces on either side of it to create a pincer. You can also be caught in a pincer by being between a pawn and a fortress.

It is more difficult to capture the King, since it must be surrounded on all four sides, not just two.

If the King is captured, the hostiles have won.

If the King is taken to one of the four corner fortresses, the Vikings have won.
[Quelle: Mythic Games

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