Regimental Chess

A completely new way of playing chess.

A battle game where large armies of chess pieces move and capture in mass formations. Up to 372 pieces in a single battle. For the brutal intellect.

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For the Brutal Intellect

Regimental Chess was born from a desire to emulate the strategy and tactics of real battle. Strategy is the art of positioning your formations; tactics is the art of how they fight. Ordinary chess locks two small armies into an eight-by-eight board where every position counts. Simply enlarging the army or the field breaks that tension.

The breakthrough was formations: move multiple pieces together as a unit, governed by rules, able to be broken apart. No point system is needed. As a formation loses pieces to attrition it simply becomes less effective, until it is annihilated or too small to matter. Across multiple boards, you command a broad front of divisions, each protecting the flank of the next.

The Napoleonic Balance

A historic rock-paper-scissors dynamic underpins every battle. Densely packed infantry stops a cavalry charge, but is easy prey for artillery. Artillery, in turn, is vulnerable to cavalry. Infantry beats cavalry beats artillery beats infantry.

See It in Motion

Summary of the Rules

Demo of the Rules: Two Armies v. Two Armies

48 Pieces

Double Tap Defense

System Requirements

Windows: Windows 10 or later, DirectX 9.0, broadband internet, 225 MB storage.

macOS: macOS 10.15 or later, broadband internet, 225 MB storage.