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[Hunka Junk]

Archon and Archon II remain among my all time favorites pc games. There was also a PS1 game called the Unholy War that followed in their footsteps.

In a nutshell:

You play on a chessboard. 1v1 players each have 8 or so "pieces".

Your goal is to make a continuous line connecting one end of the board to the other.

On your turn, you nominate one space to be contested. Each player sends a piece to do battle. The pieces range from tanky close-quarters mashers to flighty and squishy ranged. Each piece is different.

When you contest a space, you choose what piece to send there but don't know what piece your opponent chooses.

They then play a 1v1 battle to the death. This a commodore 64-era arcadey fighting. Whoever's piece wins claims that space. Dead pieces are out. Surviving pieces could be used again.

Play goes on till one player connects a string of spaces or the opponent has no more pieces to play.

The PS1 Unholy War was played on a hex field and had terrain that flying pieces could cross but others couldn't and certain spaces provided resources/buffs.

https://en.wikipedia...ht_and_the_Dark
https://en.wikipedia.../The_Unholy_War


Not that I have any dreams that this will be developed, but it fits so well with the mech weight classes and such.

If two players each had 1 mech from each weight class and then played combat chess, wouldn't that be sweet?

[Dr Wubs]

Ahh Archon!

I loved that game.

Could totally see a mech version, but maybe not here.

Maybe in HBS?

Wouldn't quite be the same but still it would be nice to play some Archon, mech or no mech.

[Bud Crue]

Screw Archon. But you did just give me a great idea. I am so going to carve a Battletech chess set.

I'll probably have more fun deciding on what pieces are what mechs than actually making the thing, but still I think it will be doable if I avoid really skinny legged mechs. Hmmm gotta think about this, maybe easier to just buy miniatures or see if I can get Solid Alexei to "help" me print em.

[Hunka Junk]

Screw Archon?

That's like saying screw Civilization (the best pc game ever).

But here's what yer carving:

http://img07.deviant...fj4-d63r8i5.png

[Bud Crue]

Hunka Junk, on 13 October 2016 - 04:07 PM, said:

Screw Archon?

That's like saying screw Civilization (the best pc game ever).

But here's what yer carving:

http://img07.deviant...fj4-d63r8i5.png

Very cool. I have more of an exclusive mech board in mind. Maybe even do a Kurita vs Davion or Steiner board, but I think MWO has damaged my recollection of the distinctive house mechs so maybe Clan vs IS would be easier, but I would want opposing pieces to have similar shapes (kings: Kodiak and Atlas (both humanoid) with Queens being WarHawk and Stalker perhaps. Something along those lines.

BTW: I would NEVER bad mouth Civ (except maybe Civ 5). Civ-4 Fall From Heaven 2 Mod nearly cost me my job at one point. That is addictive game play in an immersive universe right there PGI.

[Cyborne Elemental]

Funny, Archon II was made by Electronic Arts, If I still had my Commodore-64, I'd try and load it up
Was a fun game, like Chess but so much more badass.

[Spheroid]

@Mister D: Many online emulators exist now which can run in your web browser. It should not be hard find one for Commodore.

[draiocht]

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