Breakthrough

One of the simplest “get to your opponent's home row” games around. Pieces move and capture like chess pawns. First to the other home row wins. Also includes a Bombardment variant where instead of regular capture moves, one can detonate a piece, which destroys it and all pieces around it.

Inventors: Dan Troyka, Chris Huntoon

See Wikipedia: Breakthrough.

Instead of capturing by replacement, you may detonate a piece: it and all orthogonally/diagonally adjacent pieces are removed. See WAG: Bombardment.

• Current engine version: 20211118 (2021-11-18). On Abstract Play since 2023-05-01.

• Chris Huntoon is credited for the Bombardment variant.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_(board_game)
• https://jpneto.github.io/world_abstract_games/bombardment.htm
• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3825/breakthrough