Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done - Deluxe Edition

In the year 1119 AD, the Crusading Orders were formed to protect the thousands of pilgrims who were travelling to Jerusalem. The knights were closely tied to the Crusades, and they were considered to be some of most highly skilled fighting units of that time. The orders grew in wealth and power for almost 200 years until King Phillip IV of France had them persecuted and arrested for reasons that are discussed by historians to this day.

Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done, a brand new game from designer Seth Jaffee (Eminent Domain, Terra Prime), will put players in the role as the leader of a Crusading Order. Using an innovative Mancala/Rondel mechanism, they will move their knights through Europe and the Middle East. They will battle with enemies, construct buildings, and train troops - all the while trying to be the order that has gained the most influence before the game comes to a close.

Move your knights, erect buildings, and go crusading to spread the influence of your Order. When the Orders get too strong, King Philip will become nervous and disband all Templar orders, ending the game.

Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done uses a combination of rondel and mancala mechanisms. Each player has their own rondel, which they can upgrade over the course of the game, that controls their action choices during the game. Your faction gives you a special power to control your rondel, and the buildings you erect will help you form a strategy.

The KS Deluxified Edition of Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done comes in a gold foil-stamped box with a box sleeve. The game board, Player boards and most cardboard components have “UV spot” printing. It includes metal influence tokens (instead of the cardboard tokens in the retail edition), silkscreened wood buildings plus plastic molded buildings (your choice of which to use), plastic molded knights in addition to wooden knight meeples, dual-layered player boards and wooden enemy disks with stickers (instead of the cardboard tokens in the retail edition) and two silkscreened cloth drawstring bags (red and yellow).

Components (Deluxified Edition):
Cardboard components:
Game Board (57x41.5cm).
4 Player boards (player colors orange, apple green, teal blue, purple; 28.5x18.5cm).
24 Action Wedges (6 per Player color; 68x52x3mm).
20 Troop Tokens (5 per Player color; 28x41x3mm).
6 Enemy Majority Award Tiles (2 each enemy, values 5 and 2; 44x66x3mm).
4 Player Aids (1 each Player color; 44x66x3mm).
30 Building Bonus tiles (37x16x3mm).

Wooden components:
48 Action Tokens (gold hexes 10x10mm).
13 Knights (3x per Player color plus 1x black Knight; 20x25x7mm).
16 Banks (4x per Player color, with white silkscreening; 14x15x14mm).
16 Barns (4x per Player with white; 17x14x14mm).
16 Castles (4x per Player, with white; 19x16x14mm).
16 Churches (4x per Player, with white; 16x20x14mm).

Molded plastic components (Deluxified alternate pieces):
13 Knights (3x per Player color plus 1x black Knight; 23x11x30mm).
16 Banks (18x19x16mm).
16 Barns (18x19x16mm).
16 Castles (19x19x16mm).
16 Churches (19x19x20mm).

2 Cotton cloth drawstring bags (1 red with white silkscreening “Crusaders” and 1 yellow with red silkscreened design; 6”x6.5”).
Rulebook (English, 16 p.).

2-4

9781947941014

Tasty Minstrel Games

60

2018

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2019-10-04 10:12:05