The Generals (game)
The Generals, or The Generals Electronic Strategy Game, is an electronic abstract strategy game published in 1980 by Ideal Toy Company. It implements the gameplay of the 1970 game Game of the Generals, in which two players contest control of spaces on a game board by moving game pieces with ranks hidden to their opponent and challenging opposing pieces; the results of challenges are determined by the hierarchy of ranks of those pieces, in a manner similar to Stratego, and decided by an electronic arbiter.
Gameplay
The Generals is played on a 9 by 8 board of squares between a red army and a blue army each consisting of 12 Officers of different ranks, six Privates, two Agents '', and a Flag. To start, both players arrange their pieces in any order on the first three rows of the board with the blank sides facing their opponent; this simulates the "fog of war" by hiding the identities of opposing pieces from each player.Players take turn alternatively, with each moving one piece per turn. All pieces can move one square forward, backwards, or sideways at a time, but cannot move diagonally or into a square already occupied by another piece. A piece moved adjacent to an opposing piece can choose to challenge it, the winner of which is determined by placing both pieces into the electronic arbiter. The weaker piece in the challenge is removed and both are eliminated if both pieces are of equal strength. Higher ranked pieces are stronger than lower ranked pieces, and all pieces except the Private can be eliminated by an Agent. If challenged, the Flag can be eliminated by any opposing piece.
The winner is the player who can either eliminate their opponent's Flag or maneuver their own Flag to the other side of the board without it being eliminated.