Epaminondas 1975 Ariel

	Epaminondas	1975	Ariel
	First produced	1975	Players	2	Age(s)

Click the picture for more		1 x playing board 28 x white playing pieces plus 2 spare 28 x black playing pieces plus 2 spare 1 x rules leaflet A strategy game where you advance pieces across the board to reach your opponents back row. The player with more pieces on the opponent’s back row prior to their move, wins. Invade your opponent’s territory. Protect your own pieces, whilst capturing your opponent's. The game has relatively simple rules, yet provides for surprisingly complex strategy. The rules leaflet is well illustrated and includes a sample game.

Named after Epaminondas, the Theban leader who invented the phalanx, a formation first used to defeat the Spartans in 371 BC. Although the game is not meant as a battle simulation, a line of pieces does resemble a phalanx of warriors and the term is used in the rules to describe a certain formation of pieces. Two or more neighbouring pieces of the same colour form a phalanx.
Now rare.