Games of Kings and Soldiers - Table of Contents

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law,
and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is
in his power to control success.

This section covers abstract board games with two set of pieces on each army, usually called the soldier and the King (but names may change...), and as in the previous section these games are also played on a regular square or hexagonal board, for two players and played in sequential turns.

Here are the actual games included in this list (163 so far). Each game has a set of icons (position the mouse over them) and a short description to give an instant feeling of the game playability. To know more about each game, just click on the

. The icon

indicates an update to a specific game.

Game	Features	Play	Game Description
3 Colors			Jump and capture to get points.
3 Crowns			Create unroyal Troikas until you get one really ununroyal.
3 Stones			Create as many 3 in-a-rows as you can to win by points.
7 Sages			An abstract soccer field.
90 Grad			Push the opponent royal piece or get to the center.
Amazons			Stalemate your opponent by destroying the board cells.
Ambivalence			With custodian and intrusion capture, be the one with the largest army.
Apocalypse			Eliminate all enemy soldiers.
Atrium			Make one of the possible 3 in-a-rows.
Batalo			Slide your King or jump a soldier into the enemy base.
Batman vs Catwoman			Pivot moves to trap the enemy hero.
Berolina's Revenge			16 chess pawns have limited time to escape the Berolina's wrath.
Bipod			Connect your two types of pieces to the board edges.
Blue & Gray			Move your captain to the center board.
Blue Chip			Use your pieces and some neutral ones to fill your winning row.
Bloc			A Clobber variant with blocking markers.
Blockades			Each King deploys soldiers while rotating around the board.
Blocks			Surround opponent stone with neutral walls.
Blokus			Fill the board with all available tiles you have.
Boll's Game			Flip your enemy to oblivion.
Breakthru			The 60s version of Tablut.
Bubbles 4 Two II			The joint capture powers of two Kings.
Bushka			An offspring of Checkers and Fanorona.
Camelot			Canter and capture to conquer the enemy castle.
Camette			A small version of Camelot.
Campaign			Jump your Knight into a 5 in-a-row.
Cannon			Move towards the enemy Town.
Cavaliers au Cordeau			Jump and drop your soldiers to achieve a 4 in a row.
Chase II			Stalemate the enemy Kings with yours and his own soldiers.
Checkers			Check the traditional family of jump over and capture games.
Chogo 44			Special custodian captures to seize the enemy King.
Cinko			A twist on Gomoku using neutral stones.
Citadel			The battle where the warlord cannot have more than five Citadels.
City Blocks			Drop pentominos to achieve larger areas.
Collector			Drop a pair of stones and make the biggest group.
Column			A pen&paper Epaminondas.
Conquest			Invade the central fortress by making a specific pattern.
Corner			Maximize your score, by capturing as many stones as possible.
CQT			With 3 different capturing abilities, stalemate the adversary.
Creeper			Jump your Kings to create a connecting path.
Croda			A Checkers game with powerful Kings.
Cyclo			Surround two or more neutral bases with some of your (un)safer stones.
Daggers			With gravity capture some royal pieces or reach the enemy lines.
Dameo			A Checkers game with lines of soldiers and powerful Queens.
Dameta			A simple checkers variant with swaps.
Diaballik			A football game in a tight square.
Diagonals			Create structures while neutralizing the adversary.
Donkan			Gain by (re)capturing the enemy King or (re)entering the Castle.
Dozo			Be the first to make a equilateral triangle.
Duplo			Expand and neutralize your adversary.
Ecke			A NIM like game with a refresh option.
Ergo			A 5 in-a-row with a shifting feline piece.
Euclid			Create deadly rectangles and geometrically wipe out the enemy.
Evade			Freeze the opponent pieces and evade yourself to the last row.
Farook			A pattern game on a 4x4 board.
Flag Grid			A catch the flag game with LoA movements.
Foursight			The winning 4 in-a-row is constructed over base stones.
Freeze			Leave your enemy without captures, by freezing his army.
Gambit			Slide your pieces to capture the enemy.
GeneratorB			Use your pieces to get into the main enemy generator core.
Gogol			A sliding battlefield to capture a King or to protect another.
Gorgon			Turn to stone those enemy gorgons until you stalemate the last survivors.
Gothic Checkers			Check the oldest relative of Checkers in Germany.
Growths			Grow one of your groups to stalemate your opponent.
Guerilla			Grow your groups and attack the others, to conquer territory.
Hecatomb			How can 31 queens defeat one King?
Hexagrams			Use triads and hexads to stalemate the adversary.
Hexdame			The hexagonal version of Draughts.
Hnefatafl			Capture the King if you have one, or escape it to the edge corners.
Hobbes			Maneuver your influence until you have the enemy King.
Hodgepodge			Move, capture and jump to achieve one of many goals.
Impasse			Promote and demote until you lose your own.
Inner Circle			Move your pawns on changeable and lifting boards
Interaction			An abstract snooker game.
Invers			Invert all your soldiers into Kings.
Isola			Move and remove until one stops.
Ithaka			All stones are neutral and can be used by both sides.
JumpJack			Jump your stones and the Jack, to achieve goal at the last row.
Karaman			A variant of Isola in a smaller board with a bigger rule set.
Kechi			Move 6 cells on each turn, and stalemate the opponent.
Khan			Use the powerful Khans to support the weak soldiers to victory
Kick & Run			Move one piece into the opposite corner.
Kiki & Bun-Bun			Checkers with different armies.
Kings of Babylon			A modern offspring of Latrunculi and Hnefatafl.
Knights			Jump from some patterns to maximize points.
Koan			Move your army around the enemy to reach his last line.
Kuba			Slide a specific number of neutral stones, or all the enemy!
Latrunculi			The old roman abstract game board
Lifta			A growing line of markers to capture more friendly stones.
Louis XVI			While one player wants the power, the other tries to run from it.
Lylipad			Move, jump or swap or King(?) to the last row.
Magnetism			Capture your own pieces using magnetic forces.
Manic Minelayers			Jump and destroy cells and stalemate the competition.
Matrix			Make a colorful 4 in-a-row.
MuchADO			A hexagonal pushing checkers.
Network			Move yours robots and neutral batteries up to the last row.
Neutron			Slide the Neutron to your first side.
Norow			Move and drop under restrict orders.
Nosferatu			Capture Nosferatu of turn into a vampire.
NotChess			A Chess-like battle between two alternating pieces.
Operator			Drop neutrals or jump over them.
Oshiqi			A push game to get the ball to the edge.
Outwit			Slide your soldiers into your besieged base.
Palanquée			Make your garden eat the enemy's.
Pasang Emas			Collect points with you Ka in this traditional game from Brunei.
Pikkpakk			Surround the neutral stone by influencing neighbor rows and columns.
Playground Commandos			One army tries to reach the central cells, the other prevents it.
Plotto			Make a four in-a-row with a restricted drop rule.
Prairie			Move your Bulls to the safe side, or capture them all!
Press Ups			Pick and pick until no more of your picks are left.
Queen's Guard			Two racing Queens for the central cell.
Ransom			Stalemate your opponent, or make him stalemate himself.
Reactor			A nuclear battle to dust out your adversary.
Royal Carpet			Escape a pair of Kings at the expense of your remaining army.
Rubik Eclipse			Drops and shifts with 4 colors to achieve a 4 in-a-row
Run			Use the cowboys to deliver your cows.
Sabotage			A catch the flag game with column-dependent movable pieces.
Serauqs			Move yourself into a winning pattern
Siege (aka Troke)			Knight attacks, knight defends. A castle in-between [1].
Shift			Hexashift yourself to the last row.
Snail Trail			Move your killer snail and stalemate your deadly enemy.
Ski Jumps			Stalemate the opponent by sliding and jumping your ski-army.
Slides of Action			Slide the board to reunite your stones.
Slings & Stones			A checker+chess capture/stalemate game.
Slow King			Swap and move to bring your King to the last row.
Sombrero			Win by demoting enemy Kings.
Sophia			A maze of four colors in search of a row.
Spark			Maneuver your Orbs and Sparks to Unmerlin your adversary
Squared and Crossed			Each piece type eats the other. Capture them all!
Squaryd			Win with a good square or by forcing the opponent to a bad one.
Squeeze			Slide your Kings to capture the crowd.
Support			Push and reposition your pieces via your bases.
Take It Away			Maximize your score, by capturing as many stones as possible.
The 1 Game			Remove neutral stones from the board and stalemate yourself.
The L Game			Move your piece and a neutral one to stalemate the adversary.
The Right Moves			Control the inner circle or prevent the adversary from doing it.
Thrall			Block your adversary with pins in triangle cells.
Tourney			Promote one of your soldiers, and then return.
Towers			Place your Castellan into the enemy red cell.
Traffic Lights			Make one of three kinds of 3 in-a-row.
Trespass			Unbalanced armies in a 'let-me-pass' game.
Ugly Duck			Reach the farthest rows of water and get back as a Swan.
Uisge			Create an entire royal army.
VUT			Opposite armies capture by custody and try to reach the last row (incl.variants)
Ximaera			Stalemate your adversary using only neutral stones.
Zen L'inicié			The same rules of LOA, but with a special neutral piece, the Zen.
Zèrtz			A n-mate puzzle with an annoying opponent. The 3rd game of GIPF project.