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Wodan - The Trial by Arbeitskreis Spielkultur is a little hex turn-based strategy game which is easy to learn but hard to master.

The rules are very simple. Each village earns money for each occupied hex which it can trace a link to. More money allows the player to purchase more soldiers or towers.

Each soldier can capture another hex owned by the enemy as long as the hex is not next to an enemy soldier. Soldiers can be upgraded in level (up to level 4) so that they can capture hexes next to soldiers of lower level or kill soldiers of lower level in hexes directly next to them.

However, higher level soldiers can be very expensive to upkeep. Upkeep is taken from any village that soldiers can trace a line of hexes to from their current hexes. Soldiers die if they don’t receive their upkeep so the player must balance the economy with military strength carefully.

Towers can be placed on empty hexes to defend against soldiers of level 1 and 2. They do not require or generate upkeep and are useful in the early game to defend critical locations.

Multiplayer is supported for 8 players via TCP/IP.

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To download this free game, go to spielkultur.org. View other games by Arbeitskreis Spielkultur.

On a sidenote, Wodan is very similiar to Sean O’ Connor’s Slay. The similiarity between the two games makes me wonder who was the original designer of this game (Or maybe a translation of a board game?)