Tablut: A game in which surrounding the king improbable

Tablut is a tafl game with a board that is 9 by 9 or 11 by 11(called Tawl Bwrdd)18 by 18(Alea Evangelii).

The game as two players with white or black, white has to protect the king and get him to the corners (or edge depending on the version of the rules you play) and black have capture the king by surrounding him.This makes the game compelling from the idea of movement on the board however king will more likely win then lose due to 1 piece movement and how you are forced as black to get 4 pieces around, when I say you can win with nothing but a king due to the movement style of rooks from chess, because of this the king can run away unless boxed into 2 or 3 boxes and then crushed slowly by the black team.

Whilst the game is meant to be fast paced, I think it would be better without a time limit as the game is trying to make pure strategy while playing as blacks, white can only move to retaliate what black does or does not move, meaning the game is over as soon as one or the other makes a simple mistake without seeing so in till 2 or 3 turns later when the move then makes you kick yourself into a corner in which you can be taken from.

The game is asymmetric and shows with the piece as the game gives more value to the king however the king counts just as much as another piece unlike in chess, where a king can do exactly what any other piece can do, so cornering can be just as hard (if not harder) then moving the king to the corner (or edge).