Support is played on a
9×9 board
with the following setup:
The
are bases and are never moved or captured.
Each turn a player with perform one of these two commands:
a new
onto an edge space that is either empty or occupied by a friendly
. In case of the latter, the player must choose a direction to
push the blocking unit closer to the center, orthogonally or
diagonally (so 3 possible directions). If there is another friendly
in that direction that too is pushed, and so on. Should there be an enemy
at the end of the line, that enemy is captured.
We want to at
c1 (leftmost pic).
That means pushing northwest to
b2 (middle pic) or
northeast to e3,
killing the enemy there (rightmost pic).
We cannot push north since the
c2 base is in the
way.
a
that is orthodiagonally adjacent to a friendly
. It can move across any number of connected friendly
, to a square that's either empty or occupied by an enemy
who is then captured.
If we wanted to
c1
unit instead, here's where we could go:
Note that
d2
would have the exact same
options.
There are two ways to win:
killed18: kill 18
enemy
tookcenter: have
5
in the center, lasting through the enemy turn