Onager
BGG rank
BGG #16,981
BGG rating
7.8

Onager

2012

Rules assistance for Onager

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 20 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 2.5/5

For 2 players

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Onager is a board game released in 2012 for 2 players, 20 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Néstor Romeral Andrés and its main mechanics are Grid Movement and Hexagon Grid.

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About the game

Onager is an abstract game in which each player tries to reach the opponent’s back rank. Onager is named after a Roman siege engine that is a type of catapult, as the way the pieces move resembles how projectiles are hurled forward with this device. Onager was inspired by the game Epaminondas, a masterpiece designed in 1975 by Robert Abbott, and also published by nestorgames. Onager uses simple mechanics with a classy feeling similar to those in Chinese Checkers, Halma, or Bashni.

Publishers

  • nestorgames

Questions and answers

Onager supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.