Catch the King

Catch the King is a commercial hnefatafl game, released by Studio Twin Games in 2020. 

The board in the box is a cardboard 9 x 9 board.

And superficially, the game appears identical to tablut; same size, same number of pieces on both sides, same initial set-up.

But, when you look closer, you notice that there are differences among the two armies. The 16 orange attackers come in three versions: twelve vikings, two jarls and two godis. Whereas the vikings move as normal hnefatafl pieces (i.e. any number of squares orthogonally), the godis can also move diagonally, and the jarls limit the movement of a piece on an adjacent square to one square only.

The defenders also come in more than one version (besides the king, of course). Half of the eight defenders are bowmen, which can capture like a knight in chess.

A further addition to the game are the 'forest' pieces, which each player has one of, and which can be placed on the board at the start of the game to block certain lines of movement and attack. 

Of course, the game can be played as traditional tablut, without the forest pieces, and ignoring the differences among the pieces.