

A divider screen is placed across the board and both players set up their pieces in secret. The players toss a coin the winner of the toss moves first and the loser of the toss may select two adjoining quadrants of the board on which to set up his forces. In a two-player game, one player takes a blue army and the other takes a brown army. A player may defend his/her castle by placing a figure (except the archer or squire) inside. To capture the castle, a figure must first be moved onto the green and wait one turn before moving into the castle proper. The castlepiece has two parts, the castle and the castle green (entrance), each of which takes up one board space. Each of the six armies contains a castlepiece, one each of the royalty, one Squire, one Archer, two Knights, two Sergeants, and four Pikemen. Gameplay įeudal is won by either capturing your opponent's castle or slaying all of his royalty (i.e. It is at this point that gameplay begins. To this end, both kings, each supported by their respective prince and duke, prepared to invade and conquer the enemy. The feud had lasted generations but on this day both kings had come to the conclusion that the only way to settle the dispute was to conquer their rival's kingdom.

Each had called upon his son, the prince, and his brother, the duke, to help command his army. The game takes place in the Middle Ages, where two fictional feudal kingdoms-one led by Ethelred the Great, the other by Aelfric the Barbaric-vied for control of territory which lay between their borders. A new German edition was issued in 1979 by Schmidt International, though the first German edition was issued by 3M in 1967.
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Feudal was originally published by 3M in 1967 as part of its bookshelf game series and later reissued by 3M in 19.
