Hnefatafl
Philippe Schober Developer
Philippe Schober Publisher
2020-04-30 Release
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53
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
Positive
(44 reviews)
Public Linux Depots:
- "Hnefatafl"-Linux [265.85 M]
Release 3.78
[ 2021-06-21 11:13:23 CET ] [ Original post ]
The biggest change with this upate is the introduction of a new rating system called Glicko2. New players will receive bigger changes for their rating while old players won't see big changes in their ratings anymore. It is more complicated than that but it means that losing against a new player won't make you lose many points while a new player can quickly climb the ranks if he wins enough matches against old players. If desired the displayed ranking can be changed back to ELO via the settings. Changelog:
- New rating system introduced: Glicko2. It has better handling of new players and should result in more accurate ratings. The old ELO ratings are still calculated and can be shown instead of the new Glicko ratings via the settings.
- Due to the new rating system the ELO points had to be recalculated which might lead to some minor changes of the values.
- Fixed the text on the "Manage Mods" button in the settings.
- The 17x17 chalk board now fits the screen again.
- Added three new layouts for 17x17 custom cariants.
- Fixed the display of draws in the move history and Hnefatafl 2000.
- You can now, via the Edit Profile menu, delete your account if desired.
[ 2021-06-21 11:13:23 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hnefatafl is an ancient Scandinavian board game whose variants were played all over medieval Europe before chess was even invented. In those so called Tafl games two different sized armies fight each other. The invading black army tries to capture the white king, while the defending white army tries to protect their king and help him escape.
Often also called the Game of the Vikings Hnefatafl tells many stories, like the Moskowites invasion of Sweden or the Viking hordes pillaging Britain. But no matter what the story is one thing always stays the same: The hunt for the king.
Even though the rules aren't complicated the game offers fascinating strategies and rewards tactical play. Try to surround the enemy pieces, plan ahead, lay traps and force your opponent into surrender. Will you capture the king for gold and glory? Can the loyal guards hold back the invading forces and secure the flight of their king?
You can even create your own custom variants -- with over 200,000 different variants possible -- for online or offline play!
All variants can be played online or offline against bots or fellow humans. Even the custom variants.
Often also called the Game of the Vikings Hnefatafl tells many stories, like the Moskowites invasion of Sweden or the Viking hordes pillaging Britain. But no matter what the story is one thing always stays the same: The hunt for the king.
Even though the rules aren't complicated the game offers fascinating strategies and rewards tactical play. Try to surround the enemy pieces, plan ahead, lay traps and force your opponent into surrender. Will you capture the king for gold and glory? Can the loyal guards hold back the invading forces and secure the flight of their king?
You can even create your own custom variants -- with over 200,000 different variants possible -- for online or offline play!
This game includes the following variants:
- Hnefatafl
- Hnefatafl - Copenhagen Rules
- Hnefatafl - Historical Rules
- Hnefatafl - Berserk Rules
- Hnefatafl - Fetlar Rules
- Simple Tafl
- Sea Battle 11x11
- Sea Battle 13x13
- Linnaeus' Tablut
- Tablut
- Tablut - Historical Rules ("Saami")
- Foteviken Tablut
- Ard Ri
- Brandubh
- Magpie
- Tawlbwrdd
- Tyr 13x13
- Tyr 15x15
- Tyr 19x19
- Coppergate 15x15
- Alea Evengelii
- Custom variants for offline and online play
All variants can be played online or offline against bots or fellow humans. Even the custom variants.
Included features:
- Offline play for two humans
- Offline play against various computer opponents
- Offline play for two computer opponents
- Online play
- Ranked and unranked matches
- Cross Platform Play between Android, iOS and Windows clients
- Play Online on your PC and continue on your phone, all with just one account
- Ingame Chat for Online play
- Achievements
- ELO Leaderboard
- Match Browser
- Share games with other players so that they can spectate
- Match Annotations - review any shared match and discuss strategies
- Match History - review any of your completed matches
- Tutorial/Rules included
- Partial Controller support
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04
- Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capable
- Storage: 200 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Gnome desktop environment running on top of X11 windowing system Other configuration and user environment as provided stock with the supported distribution (such as Kernel or Compositor) Nvidia and AMD GPUs using Nvidia official proprietary graphics driver or AMD Mesa graphics driver.
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04
- Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+. Vulkan capableNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 300 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Gnome desktop environment running on top of X11 windowing system Other configuration and user environment as provided stock with the supported distribution (such as Kernel or Compositor) Nvidia and AMD GPUs using Nvidia official proprietary graphics driver or AMD Mesa graphics driver.
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