(Tezhi -) Luzhanqi Rules - Chinese Army Chess
The rules have been translated and compiled by hackcraft.de
Free for purely personal non-commercial use.
The Game
In Luzhanqi (eg Luh-jang-chi spoken) is a chess variant in China. It is very similar to the popular western games Stratego and L`Attaque - they are possibly related. The game board represents a map and the two player sides are connected by a bottleneck. The characters have a rank that describes which piece can beat another. Finally, there are mines that shall be removed, and a flag that must be conquered.
Players
There must be at least two players. For some game variants you will also need a referee, he decides on the outcome of a confrontation without revealing the identity of the involved pieces.
Board
The playing field consists mainly of normal fields (rectangular), 8 shelters (round, 4 on each side) and the 4 Headquarters (two on each side). The fields are connected through roads (continuous green thin lines) or rail (dashed or red thick lines). The playing field is dividing by a river, a mountain range or front line in the middle of the board (no man`s land).
PDF-Download: Luzhanqi-Board for DIY printing
Pieces
In total there are 25 units for both sides.
Zieleinheit (1):
1x Jun Qi 军旗 (Flag)
Einheiten mit Rang (19):
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Spezielle Einheiten (5):
3x Di Lei 地雷 (Mine)
2x Zha Dan 炸弹 (Rocket)
In general, all units can move except the flag and the mine. Mobile units may move over roads only in a field by field fashion but on rails they may move several (blank) fields at a time but not around corners. Depending on the game type (or taste) one may move ordinary soldiers around corners and sometimes even the smallest remaining unit - the players should agree before the game on an alternative!
PDF-Download: Pieces for DIY printing (Rot)
PDF-Download: Pieces for DIY printing (Gruen)
Tip: Print on photographic paper or stick paper on cardboard so that you can not see the hidden colors and ranks.
Rules
Classic Army chess for two players (without referee)
- The aim of the game is to take the enemy flag through a direct attack.
- All pieces (enemy and own) are mixed and distributed covered to the rectangular fields and Hauptquatiere. Vaults initially remain vacant.
- In each turn, a player may now either uncover a piece or move an uncovered piece. At the first turn through uncovering the first piece the color the player has is decided.
- Before the Enemy flag can be taken all minefields must be eliminated.
- Only the unit with the lowest rank can remove minefields without beeing destroyed by the mines - other units may sacrifice themselves to destroy the mines though.
- Simple soldiers may move on rails around corners.
- Only uncovered pieces may be attacked. This is done by moving your own unit to the unit occupied by the Enemy field.
- Higher-rank pieces can destroy lower-rank pieces by attack. Same-rank pieces destroy each other. Lower-units may be sacrificed by unsuccessful attack, too.
- Missiles can destroy every enemy unit (with exception to the flag and the mine field), but they are destroyed themselves, too.
- Units in bunkers can not be attacked. (This rule is a real funkiller - maybe you can come up with a better rule)
Alternate Gamestyles:
Secret Opening
2a. Like 2 but pieces are placed covered (or upright) turnwise until all pieces are placed but vaults need to stay clear. All stones are uncovered as soon as all pieces are placed.
3a. Like 3 but without uncovering pieces.
Capture The Flag
1a. Like rule 1 but the enemy flag needs to be captured and brought back to the own flag backpack style. The flag falls down on the spot where the flag-carriing unit is destroyed by a rocket else it is immediately picked up again by the destroyer.
Simple Mines
5a. Any-rank units may destroy mines through sacrifice.
Even simpler Mines
5ab. Like 5a but even rockets may, against rule 9, attack and destroy mines.
Classic Army chess for two players (with referee)
This style of the game leaves more uncertainty in the game. Similar to the "Secret Opening", the players can put the stones themselves can on their own side of the board without that the opponent can determine the strength of the pieces. But when playing with referees, players can put the pieces upright, so that the opponent can not see the imprint. The referee decides the outcome of a confrontation, without that the strength of the winning piece is relvealed to the opponent. But the lost piece is given to the winner.
Multiplayer Version
The game can be played with a maximum of four players with the appropriate board. The player to the left-hand is your opponent, alternatively, opponents can also be found using a dice.
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