Armadöra

Armadora is a game where every player will try to get their hands on the most gold possible.

The game board is a 8x5 grid with two types of cell: the lands where the players will be able to put their warriors (more on that later) and the gold stacks with various quantity or gold.

The grid can be divided into territories by putting palisades between cells. A territory must be at least four squares wide.

At the beginning of a game, each player chooses a character (Orc, Goblin, Elf or Mage) and hide their warriors behind their screens.

Each player starts with the same army, depending on the number of players:

• For two players, each one get 11 warriors of 1 point, 2 warriors of 2 points, 1 warrior of 3 points, 1 warrior of 4 points and 1 warrior of 5 points;
• For three players, each one get 7 warriors of 1 point, 2 warriors of 2 points, 1 warrior of 3 points and 1 warrior of 4 points;
• For four players, each one get 5 warriors of 1 point, 1 warrior of 2 points, 1 warrior of 3 points and 1 warrior of 4 points;

In the advanced rules set, the players also have power token based on their race and a reinforcement token.

Forty gold are then distributed randomly in eight piles: 1 pile of 3, 2 piles of 4, 2 piles of 5, 2 piles of 6 and 1 pile of 7.

When it is his turn, the player have to choose one of the following actions:

• Put one of a remaining warrior tile on an empty cell, with the number hidden;
• Put one or two palisades on the board, in an authorized border of a cell (one cannot put a palisade if it closes a territory of less than four cells);
• Use the race's power (only in advanced rules);
• Use reinforcement (only in advanced rules);
• Pass his turn.

Once a player passed his turn, he cannot play anymore for the rest of the game.

The game ends once every player has passed they turn. Every armies' strength is revealed and the gold of each territory is given to the player with the greatest army.

In case of a tie, the players will compare their piles of gold, from highest to lowest.

Example: If the Elf have a pile of 6, a pile of 4 and a pile of 3 and the Orc have a pile of 6, one of 5 and one of 2, the Orc wins.

In a four-player game, the facing players can play as partners. We will not be implementing this feature in the first version.

Running the game locally

docker-compose

You can run the game locally through docker-compose. For instance, on linux, run the following command.

sudo docker-compose up --build

Kubernetes (unmaintained)

You can also run the game locally in a Kubernetes Cluster, using skaffold.

Here are the prerequisites for the game to run:

• Have a working and running minikube on your machine;
• Enable the Ingress addon (minikube addons enable ingress);
• Install skaffold;
• Run the skaffold dev command.

This command should populate your local Kubernetes Cluster with the required pods, deployments, services and ingresses.

The last step is to add the following lines to your hosts file:

192.168.39.226 play.armadora.test
192.168.39.226 api.armadora.test

You should now have access the game via the address play.armadora.test.