Ludus latrunculorum Game Board + Game Pieces.

Ludus latrunculorum : W. J. Kowalski's reconstruction + Game Pieces.
11h 53m
4× print file
0.20 mm
0.10 mm
0.40 mm
307.00 g
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updated November 24, 2024

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Ludus Latrunculorum W. J. Kowalski's reconstruction

+ Game Pieces. 

+ Dux (Remake of Viking Glass Game Piece found at Lindisfarne.  It may have been left from a Vikings Raid. If so…it may have been part of a Hnefatafl board game set. 

Please use “Newboard” added (11/23/2024) with Channel Bridges for sliding game pieces. 

 

 

GAME PLAY

  1. The board has eight ranks and twelve files. Each player has twelve men and a dux, black on one side and white on the other. In the starting array the men fill the first rank and the dux stands on the second, on the square just to the right of the center line (from each player's point of view). On the board of ten squares by eleven, the dux starts in the center of the back row, flanked by five men on each side. Black moves first.
  2. Each piece may move any unobstructed distance along a rank or file (like the rook in chess).
  3. A man is captured if the enemy places a piece adjacent to it on each side in an orthogonal line. Multiple men in a line can be captured together (Kowalski later abandoned this feature).
  4. If a piece is moved voluntarily between two enemy pieces, it is not captured, but the player so moving should point out the fact, to avoid later disputes.
  5. A man in a corner is captured if the opponent places his men on the two squares adjacent to the corner.
  6. Repeating sequences of moves are not allowed: if the same position occurs three times, with the same player to move, he must vary his attack.
  7. The dux cannot be captured. It is immobilized if blocked on all four sides. A player who immobilizes the enemy's dux wins the game, even if some of the obstruction is by the dux's own men. If the game cannot be won by immobilizing either dux, the player who has more men left on the board wins. (Kowalski later changed this to say that play continues until one player cannot move, and so loses.)   

 

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