VANAKRIGET

Copyright (c) 2002 Markus Salo

This game is played on the following 5x5 square board:

 

TURNS - On each turn, each player must do one of the following things: Capture a stone on a (orthogonal or diagonal) forward direction by jumping over it and landing on the immediate empty cell. Captures are multiple and mandatory. Drop a captured friendly stone on any empty cell. Move a stone on a (orthogonal or diagonal) forward direction to an empty cell. GOAL - Wins the player that moves his army to the opponent's setup.

 

An example Black just dropped the marked black stone. This was a move that cost him the game! White must capture b2:b4 and Black must capture the two remaining white stones, a5:c3:c1. Now White can drop all of his 7 stones into the initial places much faster that Black can move his own army.

There is a ZRF to play Vanakriget with Zillions.

This game is a variant of Five Field Kono :

Pieces move one point diagonally forward or backward. There is no capture. The object is to place your pieces on the points of your opponents starting position. Five Field Kono is a replacement game of Korean origin. A description of the game was originally published in Korean Games by S. Culin in 1895.

Another variant of this game is Krokek by the same author:

On each turn, each player must do one of the following things:

• Capture a stone on a orthogonal forward direction (White: north or east, Black: south or west) by jumping over it and landing on the immediate empty cell. Captures are multiple and mandatory.

• Drop a captured friendly stone on any empty cell.

• Move a stone on a orthogonal forward direction (White: north or east, Black: south or west) to an empty cell.

The player that moves his army to the opponent's setup wins.
 
Krokek is a derivative of my earlier game 'Vanakriget'. Krokek is a better game than 'Vanakriget' with more strategy and depth.