L'Attaque Rulebook

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Table of Contents

• Rules

Rules

The game is played by two people and consists of 72 pieces or figures, 36 for each player, which the player may arrange as he wishes. Each piece advances or retreats by one square, whether forward, sideways, or backward, never diagonally. Rivers cannot be crossed. All pieces may move, with the exception of the Flag and the Mines, which are immobile and cannot attack.

The Flag may be captured by all pieces.

The Sappers alone may capture the Mines; all pieces that attack the mines are lost.

The Spy is captured by all pieces; it alone may capture the Army Commander.

The Scouts alone may cross several empty squares, whether sideways or forward, in order to position themselves and attack. Scouts do not capture each other: the one that attacks another returns to its place. The Sappers capture the Scouts.

To attack a piece, one says: "Attack!" Each player names and shows his piece; the higher-ranking piece captures the lower-ranking one. Thus No. 10 captures No. 9 and below; No. 9 captures No. 8 and below, and so on. Between pieces of equal rank, each player loses his piece; the same applies to the two Spies.

When one says "Attack!", it is understood that one may attack only the adverse piece immediately in front of one's own, or the one to its left or to its right, since each piece can advance only one square at a time, with the exception of the Scouts, as stated above.

When a player attacks and captures, he must place his piece on the square occupied by the captured piece. On the other hand, if the attacking player loses his piece, the opponent does not move his superior piece that was attacked, and he plays whatever he chooses.

Example: a Colonel attacks a Lieutenant. The Colonel captures the Lieutenant and occupies the lieutenant's square. In another case, a Sergeant attacks a Captain. The Sergeant is captured by the opponent, who does not move his Captain and plays whatever he chooses.

The player who captures his opponent's flag has won the game.

Transcriber's note: the source rules sheet has no printed section headings and no separate setup, turn, or piece-count table; the text above follows its paragraph order. The sheet does not state how many pieces of each rank each player has, nor the rank numbers of the named pieces (Colonel, Lieutenant, Sergeant, Captain, Army Commander), which are given only in the examples or in the bold piece names.