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Kings and Catapults is a two-player, turn-based strategy game with hack-and-slash elements, set in a fantasy world. Each player secretly arranges pieces and terrain tiles on their half of an 8x8 battleboard. Once both players are ready, white moves first, followed by black.

Battle rules

Pieces move and attack in ways similar to chess, with other pieces obstructing movement. A piece captures an enemy by moving onto its square and removing it; every capture ends that player’s turn. The first player to capture the opposing King wins. There is no check, and the King can capture or be captured by any piece.

Terrain and fortress

Players place terrain tiles as part of their setup. Each type affects movement or attacks differently:

• Mountains: There are 4 red tiles. They are impassable to all units except Dragons. Only Crossbowmen can attack Dragons on mountain tiles, and players cannot place more than two mountains contiguously, preventing impassable walls.
• Water: There are 2 blue tiles. A unit that enters water stops moving and, optionally, cannot move again until it has waited through its next turn. Trebuchets, Catapults and Crossbowmen cannot attack while on water.
• Forest: There are 6 green tiles. Entering a forest reduces a unit’s maximum range by one, and Catapult shots cannot pass through forest tiles.
• Fortress: There is 1 Fortress. The King starts inside it and can move once the Fortress is attacked and ruined.

Pieces

Each side has pieces with different movement ranges and abilities:

• Rabble: Rank I; moves 1 block and can ruin its own Fortress with a one-block ranged ability.
• Spearmen: Rank II; move 1 block and block Cavalry.
• Crossbowman: Rank III; moves 1 block and can attack at range within a one-block radius.
• Light Horse: Rank IV; moves 3 blocks and is Cavalry.
• Heavy Horse: Rank V; moves 2 blocks and is Cavalry.
• Elephant: Rank VI; moves 1 block and is Cavalry.
• Catapult: Rank VII; moves 1 block and attacks up to 2 squares away with line of sight.
• Trebuchet: Rank VIII; moves 1 block and attacks up to 3 squares away in the direction it last moved.
• Dragon: Rank IX; moves 4 blocks and is blocked by Forests, Fortresses and Trebuchets.
• King: Rank X; moves 2 blocks, can capture or be captured by any piece, and suffers no terrain penalties.

Ranged units can capture by occupying an enemy’s square or using their ranged attack. Units that are blocked cannot capture the pieces that block them.