"Alright then, put the pieces in their places." Andrei said this and started to move the pieces.
"Hm? What do you mean?" Alex asked.
"Oh, i forgot to tell him these you can give your pieces ranks as well as their genders." Laszlo sat beside Alex and replied.
"What situation do we want this to go," Andrei asked again.
"Hm? Again... please explain full rules to me now..." Alex asked Laszlo.
"The game of Petteia is situational, you can put a situation, for example, a situation of a two pirate groups trying to take over one island, then kings become Captian, or take over a kingdom, and kings become kings again, you can also choose your guard's protectors knights, anything you want, that is pretty much it, the win condition is, you either kill the king or just simply kill as many pieces as you can so it would seem your soldiers can easily encircle the king and kill him if you play in a kingdom type of situation, this can change according to what you guys are playing on, you can kill a piece by managing to pull your piece over them, except that you can't do that when you are surrounded, anyone is blocking behind of that piece or anyone is in front of you and that piece. and only a few positions can break the rules of the game, for example, if you choose a doctor, they will be able to go to the sides of the enemy and reach the soldier that is targeted by the doctor, but the doctor can not do anything to the enemy soldier that was skipped passed, Doctor can only go to targeted piece and fight alongside with the piece no matter where that piece is, this kind of roles are limited to only one role." Laszlo explained.
"Hmmmm... very similar to chess, but a little different as well," Alex muttered.
"Now choose kid." Andrei finally got his pieces right and said this, he had a king in the middle of countless pieces surrounding him as a protection, one of the most basic tactics in this game.
"I can choose?" Alex said surprised, he thought Andrei would take the chance to choose the scenario, and he would choose the most suitable for him.
"Yes, since you don't know how to play, choose," Andrei repeated.
Alex looked at him and gritted his teeth, before this he said that Alex knew how to play, but now he was shamelessly admitting he was just entrapping Alex.
"Alright... then let's play in a pirate scenario, we are going to conquer the island that is in the middle of the board," Alex said.
"Alright then" Dimas took out another piece that had more circles on it and put it exactly in the middle of the board. there were about 64 boxes in the entire board.
Nobody noticed how a little smirk went up Andrei's face.
"Now i am going to start since you chose the situation," Andrei said making everyone speechless.
So this was his plan.
Alex didn't mind tho.
"So, in the middle of my pieces is my captain's ship, one line that surrounds him is the crewmates, i have helsman, soldier, swordsman, second in command, parson, so my 5 pieces are just the crewmates. 3 that are in front of them are my subordinate ships that protect me. since we have a pirate battle, every piece that is a ship has 100 people, and if you didn't know this, if i have 100 people and you have 100 people and they meet, the fight can be held maximum before a third of the sand goes down to another side, and at least 2 crewmates are necessary to step on the island to claim the island." Andrei pointed to every piece and said this. he pulled out a sand clock put it horizontally and stated.
"Now you." He said this and looked at Alex.
"Hmmm... genders?" Alex asked, he didn't say what genders were they.
"Huh? Of course male, you think i am out of my mind?" Andrei sneered.
"I see, then this is my in command... i have my Captain behind, three surrounding him are my Swordsman, cook, and rower," Alex said this and pointed at his board, fully back on the board was a Captain and three pieces were surrounding him.
"Huh? Rower?" Laszlo was confused, why would Alex waste a piece for such a position...
But he didn't say anything.
"You are wasting your pieces kid, but i guess that is what you choose, and everything else is your ships, right? alright, start." Andrei was about to move but He looked over where Alex pulled his hand up and stopped him.
"I am not finished, the 5 pieces I have left will be surrounding the kind, 2 are at the sides of the crew and 3 is front of the crew... and most importantly, everyone is male except for the rower, she is a female," Alex said this and made everyone completely stupefied...
"What?" Andrei didn't mock Alex he just asked.
"What... i said what i said, now we can start." Alex said this and looked at them.
Dimas shook his head, this game would be lost by Alex, honestly, the game went fully different than how chess went, the roles of every piece were very important, they acted as their strength, and the swordsman could only fight and nothing else, and he would not be useful for anything, the cook could only cook and fight a little, Captain could command every one of his pieces and he could fight great, except for that, he couldn't do anything.
Cook was the only piece both of them had that could skip the soldiers and help one of theirs.
"Alright... then let's start," Andrei said and smiled...
And the Game of Petteia was started.
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In the Game.
Alex'es ship.
The handsome man was looking out into the sea, this person resembled Alex but with a beard and one leg.
"Captain, the island of Capatoia is detected, but we also have detected an enemy ship." A handsome eyed swordsman came next to him and said this.
"Oho? Call out to our crewmates in other ships, send one ship to the island, others can look out for the enemy scouts." Captain Alex responded and went to the deck.
"Cale, come out." He called out and a beautiful woman came out from the stairs of the ship's cabin.
She had purple hair purple lipstick and sailor clothes.
"Yes, captain..." She bowed on one knee and said this.
"Get ready, we are going to speed up soon," Alex said.
"Yes, captain." Cale nodded and went back to the rowing side of the ship, except for Captain, she was the only one that could move the ship.
Alex's scout ship went towards the island and stood there, his man scouted for enemy soldiers and detected few.
Alex got the news and ordered one ship to intercept the enemy that was slow to get on the island.
A fight broke out.
Another side of the ocean.
"Captain Andrei, scouts that we have sent were intercepted at the sea, Sir." The second in command notified Andrei. second in command had glasses and beautiful pulled-back black hair with sailor's clothes.
Andrei was a fat man in his throne-like seat eating meat, he pulled the meat off the bone and ordered "Tell 1 ship to help the scouts, and one ship to get on the island and destroy the enemies that are hiding there." Andrei ordered.
"But we will not have any protection, sir." The second in command was notified.
"Gahahahah, do we need anyone else than him?" Andrei pointed his finger at a swordsman next to him.
A fight broke out, and the ship that intercepted the scouts weren't fast enough and close enough to gain reinforcements as they were in enemy territory, they were sunk immediately.
Alex lost one ship, one piece.
He had 4 subordinate ships left.
"Take two ships and destroy the ship that sunk our one," Alex said this and what he said happened.
Andrei's ship was sunk, but something else happened.
Andrei lost one ship, One piece.
He had 2 subordinate ships left.
"Captain, our scouts on the island are being killed by enemy soldiers." Swordsman notified Alex.
"Help them out," Alex ordered, and one of his ships went towards to help the scouts.
But they were intercepted by enemy ships and the fight started.
"Send one to help the scouts fast, and send one to help out a ship that was intercepted," Alex ordered.
But he was too late, his scouts were annihilated, but he also killed off the ship that intercepted his.
Andrei Lost 1 ship, one piece.
1 Subordinate ship was left.
Alex lost 1 ship, one piece.
3 Subordinate ships were left.
"Captain, because the fight that killed off the ship that intercepted ours was next to the island, the enemy soldiers that killed off our scouts started to fight against our ship," Swordsman commanded.
A fight started between the two sides, but something happened.
"Captain Andrei, we only have one ship left... on the island." The second in command said this.
"Hey Oliver..." Andrei commanded the cook.
"Yes, Captain..." Oliver was a short man who looked mischievous.
"Help our soldiers," Andrei ordered.
"Yes, Captain." Oliver went towards their man.
"Let's start, we are going to get to the island fast," Andrei said this, seemingly not worried, not worried that if they lost that one battle, he would be done for.
The fight happened exactly as everyone would imagine it, Oliver helped Andrei's man, the fight went to 100 vs 101 and...
Alex lost one ship, one piece.
2 Subordinate ships were left.
"Captain, they started to move towards the island, if they make a camp there, we will not be able to take the island," Swordsman commanded.
"Start rowing Cale, we are going to the island. send one ship to intercept the Captian's crew. one to fight the enemy on the island." Alex ordered.
The one advantage that you could gain by having fewer subordinate ships was that you would be able to move fast from your position, Andrei could move one meter per minute.
Alex could move way less than that.
But something happened that surprised Alex.
Enemy retreated from the island and intercepted Alex's ship that was going to Andrei.
Got together with Captain's ship and killed off Alex's ship.
Alex lost one ship, one piece.
1 Subordinate ship remaining.
It was a fast kill since Swordsman could kill 3 people at the same time in a few minutes.
"Captain, they are about to reach the island, our crew is waiting for orders," Swordsman said this.
And at this moment... Alex made a weird decision.
"Leave one person on the island and make sure 100 soldiers intercept the enemy... Alex, go with them. but listen to me first" Alex was in thought when he said this... and summoned Cale. and ordered the cook to go with them.
But unfortunately, the fight didn't go as he thought.
Both of the enemy ships met eye to eye.
Alex had one ship, and Andrei also had one ship.
But the fight was in Andrei's favor, he had more crewmates.
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Up in the battleboard.
"You lost Alex, i am just going to destroy you and that will be it." Andrei looked at the 4 pieces he stole from Alex.
"Hmmm..." Alex was looking down not doing anything...
Andrei snorted and the fight continued.
--
"Give up Captain Alex, this island is mine," Andrei yelled out while stuffing his mouth with Food.
"Never, commence the battle," Alex replied and they started to fight each other.
Alex went on their ship and started to battle with Andrei.
Andrei smiled at Alex's try to pull the war scale, he didn't order anyone to fight and fought Alex himself.
The swordsman noticed this and went to help Alex, cook also noticed this and helped Alex.
Their only ships were fighting eachotheri on the island.
The situation was dire.
Alex and his crew were defeated.
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"Hahahahaha, as i said, you lost Alex, your turn. do not worry tho, you are still a begginer in this game, you will get better" Andrei said this and looked at Alex mockingly.
"You know..." Alex replied.
"Huh?" Andrei said something and his heart fluttered.
"I was very shocked that you didn't choose this role... and you cared about the gender of the role i gave... you call me a beginner while..." Alex pulled his hand to the Captain's ship and smiled.
"Making such a stupid begginer move yourself... not intercepting me while i was coming towards the island... i was expecting more from someone like you Andrei... and as people would say..." Alex pulled over the Captain's ship.
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Cale moved the boat and got close to the island stepped on the island. enemy soldiers targeted him as she was the crewmate.
Alex the cook noticed this and he instantly...
Appeared next to Cale...
And the fight... was over.
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"Checkmate." Alex put his Captian ship on the island and won the game very easly... in his mind but... he didn't know what this meant to Andrei.
"WHAT!!!" Andrei made the table go flying.
Alex raised his eyebrows and looked around with everyone looking at him shocked... he was also shocked... he... just played a basic strategy in this game... was that so impressive?.
End Of Chapter.