Odin's blessings! King's Table has just received an update adding new details and flavor to an already exciting and challenging game!

• The games intro sequence now plays at the start of the game.
• A new Quickstart Guide has been added to the games documentation.
• A new scan of the original manual has been added to the games documentation, which includes text in English, French, German, and Italian.

[ 2021-09-03 16:23:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

A version of an old Norse board game called King's Table. The game has black and white teams, like chess, but each team has different pieces and a different raison d'etre.

The white team has a total of 13 pieces, the most important one being Odin the King, who starts in the centre of the 10x10 board and moves in the same way as a chess King, whereas black has 20 pawns and four other pieces. White wins if Odin can reach one of the corner squares; black wins if it surrounds Odin on all 4 sides. The pawns actually move the same way as chess queens, but pieces are captured by surrounding them on 2 sides (although some special pieces must be surrounded on 3 sides). The specials are chosen from the selection at the start of the game, and have a variety of abilities, some 'borrowed' from chess.

The presentation of this interpretation is similar to Battle Chess, with bold 3D graphics and lots of animation.