Pillage: Ransack the Middle Ages

A narrative-driven skirmish game set in the Viking Age and early medieval period, where every battle tells a story. "Protect the village. Or burn it to the ground." Will you stand your ground, defending your people, treasures, and livestock from invading raiders? Or will you storm the enemy’s lands, loot their riches, and set fire to everything in your path? Pillage throws you into the heart of the action—climb, swim, fight, and make every decision count. Sequence of play A game of Pillage is divided into game turns, themselves divided into 5 phases: Initiative phase Movement phase Shooting phase Close combat phase Fire phase These phases are alternated: the player who has the initiative at the start of the turn will therefore play each phase first (player A does his movement phase, player B his movement phase, player A his shooting phase, player B his shooting phase, etc.). This avoids the pitfall of endless game turns waiting for your opponent to complete all his actions. Factions: 7 factions are available directly in the rulebook: Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Normans, Bretons, Irish/Picts/Scots and Welsh! Other factions are already available as free downloads from the Pillage website: the Rus/Varègues, the Magyars and the Byzantines! —description from the publisher