5 out of 5
Brybelly GGAM-2001 Hnefatafl: Viking Chess
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Product Description
Fight For Your King
The Viking lords have sounded the drums of war. The king prepares his defenses while the enemy flanks him on all sides. When the unyielding blade meets the unbreakable shield, who shall prevail? In the ancient game of Hnefatafl, you will find the answer and perhaps lead your army to victory.
Hnefatafl is one of the oldest games in history, nearly contemporary with the invention of chess. It is a game of strategy and cunning, in which two players pursue distinct goals: the defenders attempt to escort their king off the battlefield, while the attackers seek to capture the king!
Hnefatafl includes a fully illustrated 10.5" x 10.5" game board, a flocked box insert that snugly holds all 37 pieces, a 2.5" oversize King piece, twelve 1.5" defender pieces, and twenty-four 2" attacker pieces. Whether raiding coastal villages or enjoying a family vacation, Hnefatafl packs flat in the box for a travel friendly experience.
The Viking lords have sounded the drums of war. The king prepares his defenses while the enemy flanks him on all sides. When the unyielding blade meets the unbreakable shield, who shall prevail? In the ancient game of Hnefatafl, you will find the answer and perhaps lead your army to victory.
Hnefatafl is one of the oldest games in history, nearly contemporary with the invention of chess. It is a game of strategy and cunning, in which two players pursue distinct goals: the defenders attempt to escort their king off the battlefield, while the attackers seek to capture the king!
Hnefatafl includes a fully illustrated 10.5" x 10.5" game board, a flocked box insert that snugly holds all 37 pieces, a 2.5" oversize King piece, twelve 1.5" defender pieces, and twenty-four 2" attacker pieces. Whether raiding coastal villages or enjoying a family vacation, Hnefatafl packs flat in the box for a travel friendly experience.
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Customer Reviews
By Avi rudich
Date: March 28, 2021
Interesting game
Rating: 
[5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By jason
Date: March 13, 2021
Beautiful pieces and a very fun game. Easy to learn, even my 6 year old can play and have fun with it. I reccomend this to anyone who enjoys chess ( which i really don't but enjoy this quite a bit.)
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By A Customer
Date: March 11, 2021
Pronounced Neff-ah-tah-full, this game is easy to learn and a challenge to complete! All pieces move in straight lines much like pawns in chess, but to take other pawns you have to pinch them instead of jumping them like in checkers. The king has to be surrounded on all 4 sides (with an exception) and the king is the only piece with special rules as far as movement but it only has to do with where only that piece can land. There are good instructional videos out there and you will pick it up fast!Since the king can escape to any of the 4 corners, you have to cover a lot of directions instead of just across from you like checkers. Because of this, you can get so focused on one corner that you forget you have a straight 1 or 2 move shot to the opposite corners and the king can escape suddenly! That is always a funny moment for the king player.The only thing that can get a little bothersome is the tall/thin pieces are hard to grab when they are all crowded together and there is not much grip to them. Keep an eye on where pieces were because there will be some knocking over.I bought this as a birthday gift for my husband, and since we were already on a Valheim kick it fit with the theme. I imagine if you have a teenager that you want to spend more in person time with, and they were playing that game, you could get them to play this with you. It certainly got us to miss a night online!
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By Ethan Chambers
Date: March 04, 2021
The product is great and a ton of fun everyone I've played it with is impressed and wants to buy themselves one. It's a great conversation piece and is pretty straightforward.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]
By Bradley Nelson
Date: March 02, 2021
Viking chess is an old game, but one I'd never encountered before this. It's asymmetrical, so one side has a king with pawns, the other side has lots of pawns. The king has to get to a corner, that's it. My wife and I have played it a couple times and we are still figuring out strategy, so I highly recommend playing it once to get a feel, then watching some YouTube videos on strategy because you start to figure little bits of it out at you go and wish you'd known it beforehand. Anyway, it's a nice, simpler kind of chess, but has more complexity the more you play it.
Rating: 
[4 of 5 Stars!]
[4 of 5 Stars!]
By Yasmine
Date: March 02, 2021
Really love playing the game. Easier and quicker to learn and play than chess and offers many ways to strategize as the attacker or defender which offers loads of re-playability. The pieces are really pretty to look at and are finished very well, however because they are very light weight, while trying to set them up/play with them they often fall, knocking others over and are fiddly given the small size of the board. Would have given 5 stars if the pieces had a little more weight to them. Highly recommend as a gift.
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!]
[5 of 5 Stars!]