New Game: Descent

A tactical game for two players

Materials

6 pawns, 3 black and 3 white
125 square tiles

Setup

Arrange stacks of five tiles into a 5x5 grid, then place two like color pawns on diagonally opposite corner stacks. The remaining two pawns are placed at B3 and D3.

Definitions

Adjacent- Means orthogonally or diagonally adjacent.

Play

One plays black the other white.

Decide who goes first in any appropriate manner, turns then alternate.

On a turn you,

Move a friendly pawn to an empty adjacent tile that is 1 higher, 1 lower or the same height as the one it was on, then remove one empty tile of one or more stacks that are of the same height and adjacent to the stack of the pawn last moved.

Objective

There are two ways to win,

1) The player who makes a line of his three pawns either orthogonally or diagonally (the line of pawns must be on adjacent stacks of the same height) or

2) The player last to move.