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Nov 16, 2012·Playthrough·04:37·24000·Watch on YouTube

Assassin's Creed III - How to play Fanorona

Scott Andrew

Scott Andrew

Watch “Assassin's Creed III - How to play Fanorona,” a gameplay video for Fanorona from Scott Andrew on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Scott Andrew on YouTube:

When your stuck on a ship in the middle of the ocean, it can be quite difficult to keep the mind occupied. So why not play some Fanorona! Fanornona is believed to have originated in Madagascar. It is played on a nine-row by five-column board of intersecting lines. Each player places twenty-two black or white pieces on the board, then tries to capture the opponent's pieces by moving his own along the lines and either "approaching" an opposing stone or "withdrawing" from one. Goal: Capture all of the opponet's pieces. Rules: Capture the opponent's pieces by moving TOWARD them or AWAY from them. When a place is taken, all consecutive opponent's pieces standing behind that piece will also be captured. Capturing moves are MANDATORY. If no capturing move is possible, the player can move one piece to a neighboring empty slot. If a capturing move is possible after taking opponent pieces, the player can keep CHAINING moves until no further capture is possible. It is forbidden for a piece to move to the same slot two times on one turn. Assassin's Creed 3 Gameplay on the PlayStation3 - Comment if you like and watch in HD

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Fanorona

Fanorona

Videos
10
Creators
7

Mostly how-to-play and playthroughs. Fanorona is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 5 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, and 1 other video.

2 players
20 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About Fanorona, from BoardGameGeek:

Fanorona is a classical two-person strategic abstract game that comes from the island of Madagascar and is still popular there today. It is played on a rectangular board made up of two Alquerque boards with 22 plain black and white pieces. Capturing is compulsory and a series of captures may be made by the same piece on a turn, as in checkers. Unique aspects of the game include its method of capture (either approaching or withdrawing your piece from a line of enemy pieces), and the "vela partie" (debt game) after winning a decisive game (the winner must let the loser "eat" one man each turn for 17 consecutive moves). Because of the density of the board (only one open spot at the games beginning) and the unique method of capture, strategy is complex and enigmatic, with fewer pieces often beating more pieces. (While very different, the game feels somewhat like Zertz due to the above.) Historical note from one game box: Some Fanorona matches were devoted to the Gods and last but not least the fate and colonialization of Madagascar (1895) supposed to be solved unbloody with Fanorona on the game table.

Artists

Néstor Romeral Andrés, Julien Torsat, Lívia Varga

Categories

Abstract StrategyChildren's Game

Mechanics

Grid Movement
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