Granat
Granat is a 1979 uncredited game, published at Bütehorn Spiele.
Each player has 14 pieces and two balls that start in the following setup:
The pieces with the balls are called grenade stones; the other pieces are called field stones.
Rules
- On her turn, the player either moves a grenade stone, a field stone, or a ball.
- Field stones move to an adjacent empty position, or make a short-jump capture (see below)
- Grenade stones slide over a line of empty positions, or make a long-jump capture
- A ball can be transferred between two friendly pieces either by line-of-sight in the player's half of the board; or adjacency on the adversary's half of the board
- Opponent’s pieces are captured by jumping over them.
- Capturing is mandatory.
- Captured pieces are immediately removed from the game.
- Field stones can capture opposing pieces only from a directly adjacent space.
- Grenade stones can capture single opposing pieces from any distance (by jumping over them), but only in a straight line.
- The game ends as soon as all the opponent’s pieces have been captured.
- The game can end in a draw if two grenade stones are facing each other (not necessarily over the marked lines).
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The draw condition reminds me a bit of Xiang-Qi, the traditional Chinese Chess, where Kings cannot face each other. Here, however, given the moving range of grenade pieces, does seem an easy way out for a losing player.




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