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Hi HN, I played this game a lot in school over here in Ukraine and was surprised that there is almost no coverage [1] of it in English. So, I built this tiny we
by Kharacternyk 3y ago
Hi HN, I played this game a lot in school over here in Ukraine and was surprised that there is almost no coverage [1] of it in English. So, I built this tiny website where one can read the rules and play the game online. There is also an optional game mode that is impossible IRL on paper (with the "fog of war").
The game is usually known as "virus wars", but I didn't feel like registering a domain name with the word "virus" in it, so Paper Tactics it is:)
[1] https://www.iggamecenter.com/en/rules/viruswars https://www.iggamecenter.com/en/rules/viruswars is the only English source I know, there is also a Wikipedia article in German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampf_der_Viren https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampf_der_Viren
- untech 3y agoI guessed the game just by “show HN” title :) We played this game a lot in the Urals during high school, but upon arriving in Moscow for higher education discovered that locals don’t know about it. Good memories. I implemented a version of it in MIDletPascal in my 10th grade. Another popular modification was “rivers” which would drown any unit placed in the next turn, and also support for 3rd and 4th player, you just have to have enough pens of different colors :)
- airstrike 3y agoI would suggest listing players "looking for partners" somewhere so I can join their game instead of being specifically limited to finding someone with the exact same variants as me. I may be fine with, say, any number of neutral units, so I could be matched with anyone looking for 15%, 25% or 35% instead of having to guess which number will yield a match quicker
- Timshel 3y agoI second this :) Alternative could be to list open games. Anyway was fun to learn thx OP :).