About this game
This is one of the first games to focus on modern tank design and armor tactics. This is one of many chess-type games that emerged in the late 1930s, but it has only two kinds of playing pieces: light tanks and heavy tanks. The board is elongated. It measures only 12 spaces wide, but 20 deep. Each player starts with eight heavy tanks in the back row and 10 light tanks in the second row.
Mechanism
Move and Shoot
Rules
Both kinds of tanks only move diagonally, forward or backward. However, they shoot and kill enemy pieces only directly forward (across the alternating squares). A light tank moves up to six spaces, and can then kill an enemy tank up to three spaces away. A heavy tank has a maximum move of four spaces, but also can shoot an enemy up to four spaces away. The dark green barriers represent tank traps and other barriers. Playing pieces cannot move onto or through them but can shoot over them.
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