Hiveis a highly addictive strategic game for two players that is not restricted by a board and can be played anywhere on any flat surface. Hive is made up of twenty two pieces, eleven black and eleven white, resembling a variety of creatures each with a unique way of moving.
With no setting up to do, the game begins when the first piece is placed down. As the subsequent pieces are placed this forms a pattern that becomes the playing surface (the pieces themselves become the board). Unlike other such games, the pieces are never eliminated and not all have to be played. The object of the game is to totally surround your opponent's queen, while at the same time trying to block your opponent from doing likewise to your queen. The player to totally surround his opponent's queen wins the game.
Hive contains 22 pieces in total, with 11 pieces per player:
1x Queen Bee (Yellow-Gold)
2x Spiders (Brown)
2x Beetles (Purple)
3x Grasshoppers (Green)
3x Soldier Ants (Blue)
A template for my homemade Hive. Includes a smaller version (pocket size).
Includes: Mosquito, Ladybug and Dragonfly expansions.
I printed this on regular paper and laminated it. Then I cut the hexes out and glued them onto a piece of PVC flooring. Then I cut the hexes out again (both with a cutter knife). This gives nice thick but light tiles.
Some pics:
First, the normal size:
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The portable size (fits into an Altoids sized tin. I have this always in my backpack):
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Side by side:
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This is the artwork I made for my steampunk hive version.
You can view the result in this thread: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/729307/steampunk-hive
When a friend got the Carbon version, I noticed it came with rules that fit in the bag. I wanted some for quick reference but also kind of thematic, so I created this with content and images borrowed from the original rules and from http://www.gen42.com/hive. There are pictures of this in the BGG Hive photos area.
Print to opposite sides of cardstock (don't mess with scaling...the registration should be good) and rotate the page 180 degrees before printing the second side. Fold along the lines on the inside, then cut to the corner guidelines on the front cover. Laminate if you don't like dirt or fingerprints, and enjoy!
Hive Bag Rules, version 1.1 (posted with permission from Gen42 Games, thanks Gen42!)
HIVE FLEETS is a Star Wars themed variant and expansion for Hive, featuring both the original game's expansion tiles as well as six new, thematical units, three different tilesets and rules for a three-player game. Thanks to Kharn for his original idea and upload of the basic Star Wars tiles.
A Hive piece set themed after norse myth:
The World Tree as Queen Bee, the Fenris Wolf as spiders,Thor's hammer as the scarab, the serpent Nidhogg as soldier ants, Sleipnir as the cricket, Loki as the mosquito, Odin as the dragonfly, and Ratatosk as the ladybug. The movement signs weren't made by me, they're taken from another piece set.
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