Hnefatafl

Hnefatafl is one of six ancient board games available in BoardMoot, which supports offline and online play. In Hnefatafl, two differently sized armies face off: black invaders try to capture the white king, while the defenders try to clear a path for the king to escape. The game includes many variants and lets you create your own, with over 200,000 possible variants.

Other board games

BoardMoot also includes five other games, each with its own board and rules:

• Fidchell: Nigel Suckling's recreation of an ancient Irish game. On a round board with circular tracks, you move and capture pieces; chained moves can help you overwhelm the opposing side.
• Xiangqi: Two generals lead their armies from fortresses protected by guards. Cannons dominate the battlefield, elephants create chaos and infantry advances.
• Fanorona: In this traditional Madagascan game, all stones are equal. You capture by moving toward or away from an enemy, and captures can allow further moves if they lead to more captures. Chained moves can clear half the board, while a single mistake can decide the game.
• Surakarta: Pieces move to adjacent junctions but cannot capture that way. Captures require moving along the outer loops, which let pieces travel as far as they want.
• Wehrschach: This combination of classical chess and modern warfare includes infantry, tanks, planes and artillery. Rivers block movement, roads accelerate it, and capturing an enemy piece requires two of your own.

Play and review matches

You can play offline against another person or computer opponents, or play online in ranked and unranked matches, tournaments, and quick or asynchronous games. Online play includes chat, a match browser, and the option to share games for others to spectate. You can review shared matches with annotations, look back at your completed games in match history, and search played matches.

Player features

• Tutorials and rules
• Achievements
• ELO and Glicko2 leaderboards
• Online and offline statistics
• Cross-platform play between Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS and Windows clients
• Continue an online game on another device using the same account