Detailed Game Information
Cannon (Jump Right In!)
| Designer/Publisher: | PyroMyth Games | ||||||||||
| Rules: | http://www.pyromythgames.com/products/product.html (Local) | ||||||||||
| Date Added: | 2005 Jul 11 | ||||||||||
| Boardgame Geek Entry: | 8553 | ||||||||||
| SDG Wiki Page: | http://wiki.superdupergames.org/games/cannon | ||||||||||
| SDG Rank: | 2 (38 points, 31 votes) | ||||||||||
| Keywords (edit): | 2 Players Only, Unique Board | ||||||||||
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Cannon is an elegant 2-player game of war. Soldiers attack an enemy city using individual prowess and cunning formations. This is a commercial game; hand-made copies of which can be purchased at the publisher's website. There also exists the Cannon Game Database where past games can be studied. An AI opponent is also available.
| Username | Rating | Comments |
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| Aaron | 2 | A superb original abstract. One of my favourites! |
| bigby | 2 | My favorite game. Surprisingly complex strategies evolve from very few, easy to understand rules. |
| cdiffell | 2 | The best game on the site in my opinion. Tournament and ladder play has only reinforced that impression. An excellent blend of clarity and depth. |
| CDRodeffer | 2 | Well balanced and delightfully tense. |
| Cerulean | 2 | Finally, a game that deserves the title "as simple as checkers, as deep as chess"! Great game I expect to be playing and enjoying years from now. |
| Elektrodo | 2 | |
| Hedge_o_Matic | 2 | This game is flat-out awesome. |
| JCT34 | 2 | I purchased the wooden edition of the game. |
| Keith | 2 | Simple rules, surprising depth, sharp tactics and a strong strategic element that rewards seeing the shape of things to come make Cannon one of my favorite games. |
| megamau | 2 | I rediscovered it online after playing a little at home. Just great. |
| molnar | 2 | Winner. Really looking forward to learning more about this. Would play in "meatlife". |
| nycavri | 2 | An extraodinarily elegant game. Stronger theme than might be expected from an abstract with effectively only one game piece. Great replayability due to variable start positions. |
| papa_bear | 2 | Cannon is elegant in such a way that I would have believed if I had been told that it was thousands of years old, with a rich history of master sages who taught wisdom to their disciples through its elegant simplicity and its elegant complexities. |
| alexcobo | 1 | |
| antihero | 1 | |
| dsheldon | 1 | A good abstract that makes me want to come back and get better at it. |
| Elysium | 1 | Quite interesting. |
| hseld | 1 | |
| jeep | 1 | |
| jejozsef | 1 | |
| jonah | 1 | |
| Lexicon | 1 | |
| maka | 1 | |
| smilingra | 1 | This is an interesting chess variant, where there is some action that happens at a distance, but most is pretty tactical. |
| unic | 1 | Interesting game with both sharp tactics and strategy. However, slightly on the fiddly side - the rule forbidding shifting the same cannon too many times in a row feels like a cludge, and the retreat rules felt nonintuitive to me - I had great trouble remembering them when learning the game first. |
| dtroyka | 0 | |
| Laurie_Menke | 0 | One of the most popular games on SDG, and rightfully so. The movement mechanism is really cool. |
| mathochist | 0 | |
| mzmzmz | 0 | |
| rootbeer | 0 | |
| xoet | 0 | (There seems to be a group of Cannon players)The make up of the game is similar to chess/stratigo but learning from the ground up requires many games and patience. |
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