'Lancer is a fast-moving strategy game that combines the best parts of checkers and Chinese checkers, with original variations of its own. It is played on a board of hexagons, so that movement and capture can take place in six different directions. Any number of captures can be made in one turn and pieces may jump over their own men. The game includes two playing surfaces, one on each side of the board-one for two players, one for three players' -from rulebook - BoardGameGeek