Circular wooden board for a tactics game, the face covered with round depressions for the marbles to sit in. The depressions are linked by red painted horizontal and diagonal lines and black vertical lines; painted green lines surround an area isolating a group of the depressions on one side from the rest of the board. This is the 'fortress', according to the instructions.
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