Warrior Knights
Warrior Knights is a board game for 2–6 players originally published by Games Workshop in 1985, and later published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2006. Each player takes the role of a Baron vying to claim the throne of an unnamed kingdom. Gameplay revolves around raising an army, obtaining enough money to maintain that army, and gaining influence through a variety of means.
An expansion, Crown and Glory, was released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2007, adding scientific advancement and other optional rules to the game.
In the 2006 version of the game, Warrior Knights is played on a square board approximately 24" to a side. The majority of the board is used to represent the Kingdom, overlaid with a hexagonal grid. Additional insets are used for overseas cities, all of which are real places, notably including Jerusalem and Constantinople. Additional areas on the board are used to keep track of stacks of cards or counters.
The King of an unnamed kingdom has been murdered. Now the Barons of the realm (2–6 players) must vie for control of the empty throne.
Each round of gameplay consists of at least three phases: Planning, Action, and Upkeep. In addition, the following special phases may be triggered during the Action phase, and may or may not happen in any given round: Taxation, Wages, Assembly, and the Mercenary Draft.
Each player selects up to six action cards from his action deck. These are divided into which two the player wishes to execute first, which two second, and which two last. All players' "first" choices are shuffled together, all "second" choices shuffled together, and all "last" choices shuffled together. Two cards from the Neutral Action deck are shuffled into each stack.
