1066, Tears to Many Mothers Review

Units have combat and social strengths as well as health and abilities that they can use in each round. None of this is unique or strange to anyone who has played any CCG or LCG. What is perhaps more unique are the limits of units, players have three wedges to deploy to, each with only three slots for units and one of these is always taken up with your leader - either Harald Harada or William of Normandy - and you must always protect them as their destruction means an instant loss.

Players are competing to complete a series of tasks that track the lead up to the Battle of Hastings, each requiring the player to meet certain requirements such as combat or social strength and, though the requirements are very similar, each player has particular strengths and weaknesses - the Normans are better at the early social conflicts, whilst the Saxons are better at the later military combats.

This means, that whilst each player needs to amass and do similar things, the Normans will move through early tasks far quicker, getting them closer to the Battle of Hastings (where they can destroy their opponent’s wedges for victory), whilst the Saxons will struggle to get there but will dominate if they do. The whole process leads one to wonder if Harald Harada had been a ‘people person’ rather than a fighter, we’d be less French and more German?