This game was my jam in the mid Eighties. We were early adopters and actually gave it a proper go. The idealised feudal detail, with castles to manage, and the societal structures, reflected a 'realistic' amount of detail mirrored in the mechanics. The game was a classic of Ed Simbalist (and Wilf Backhaus), with specific and tailored rules for each step, and not much that unifies everything. But the sum of the parts made a very complete whole, producing a blow based tempo to combat and a detail of enchantment to the magick. The tolkienesque layers did little but encourage me!
The lightest of skims bring back memories locked to a time when this game was the favoured centre of my gaming. In fact it was an important game and escape in the late 80s. The game itself exudes a medievalist flavour, with all the varied systems buzzing along as I had remembered. The challenge will now be to get myself to a point where I am on top of the 'fidlly bits', such that I can run the game. I know I can get there and, as an exercise in 'gaming history recovery', the preparation and offering of this, probably as a one shot, will be a fantastic journey.
I've been on a quest to find legit PDFs of the game. they are, for lots of straightforward reasons, nowhere to be found. I also struggled to get good scans of the two page character sheet. A quick message to the wonderful Britannia Games and hoorah, I now have something I can work with. For those who are unaware of what I am taking on, here is a reduced image of the two page spread...
With a host of text boxes, forged in the fires of Affinity Publisher, I can create some legible character sheets for a demo game. You know, for all those people who feel they have missed out when C&S 2e was in its triumphant heyday. Er, oh, hum.
All this nonsense is only happening because I am now retired of course. Getting to that one off game will sink some serious time. Really, I should be streaming it, just to showcase it for the curious disbelievers. 😆
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