Hnefatafl forum

On whats going on with PTO: The PTO server crashed, I did manage to recover the database(which had apparently not been backing up automatically due to the reason the server crashed); However it happens to be in it's binary format thus a little work must be done to it for it to be usable again. The i...

So there are few things which make me doubt Alea Evangelii as a Tafl game: CCC MS 122 was written in the 12th century by an Irish monk referencing a manuscript from over a century earlier written by Dub Innse, Bishop of Bangor, who brought the game back to Ireland from the court of Aethelstan, King ...

I am looking for advice from anyone who has previously taught/demonstrated Tafl games at viking/cultural/historical festivals/markets. There is a Viking Festival taking place near me in central Ohio at the end of April and I want to approach them about possibly teaching the game and I am curious abo...

Access to Tablut T cross 11x11 is opened, so that Tuireann can study its shortcomings. Thanks for giving me access to it. Having completed 3 of my 4 T cross games I see there are a severe lack of viable openings for white to exploit. Or at least none that I can see. Black seems to have an epic adva...

I'm aware it's been tried but I've never tried it and it's not available. I'm curious what about it does not work.

Is the Nielsen layout the one used in old hnefatafl 13x13? The 13x13 and 15x15 HH games could both use some additional test games too. I was kind of interested in trying out the 11x11 T cross with tablut rules. I've played a bit of the Lewis cross and my only criticism is that it doesn't have the sa...

BigWurm91 may be new here on aage's site but he's been playing online longer than I have, first on the late kingstafl and now on PTO, and I consider him every bit as good as his rating now reflects. He and I played(and reviewed) about a dozen games of Tawlbwrdd a week in the month leading up to the ...

It's an abbreviation for another Tafl playing site I don't intend on advertising here...

Sounds like fun but yeah that would make quite a lot of games. I was thinking maybe each leg of the triathlon could be broken down into groups that changed every leg so that everyone ended up playing everyone throughout the tournament but i imagine that would be quite a lot of work to balance the gr...

Hehe it was a heavily discussed point on PTO that a weak king qualifier would draw a lot of criticism and I'm certain my poor performance in the Copenhagen round won't help. Perhaps it would be better not to mix variant types as there are lots of players like myself who almost exclusively play weak ...