This update introduces two rule changes: The first one affects custom variants with the berserk option and edge escape. In those variants, if the king can jump, he can now - after capturing an enemy piece - use his berserk move to jump over an enemy piece to reach a corner tile. In the official berserk rules this can never happen as those only have hostile corners and the king would capture the enemy piece he would like to jump over anyway, allowing him to escape to the corner. The second change affects more variants. Corner escape variants in which white loses if corner access has been cut off now take into account, if those pieces that secure the corners can still be captured. For example if two pieces are just sitting right next to the corner they can still be captured as the corner tiles count as hostile. Therefore now four pieces are required to fully secure the corner. Or three pieces if they are blocked off diagonally. Changelog:
- Changed Rule: In edge escape berserk variants in which the King can jump he can now use his berserk move to jump over an enemy to reach an edge tile.
- Changed Rule: In variants where blocked off corners lead to a victory for black the pieces blocking off a corner now also need to be secure. So two pieces are not enough anymore to secure a corner.
Hnefatafl
Philippe Schober
Philippe Schober
2020-04-30
Strategy Singleplayer Multiplayer
Game News Posts 53
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
Positive
(39 reviews)
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"Hnefatafl"-Linux [265.85 M]
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
- 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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