Fealty

The king has died and there is no clear successor. Everyone with a claim to the throne springs into action. In Fealty you send loyal allies and henchmen out into the kingdom to gather support everywhere. Nobody wants open war, but a bit of fighting is of course unavoidable. Fealty is all about choosing your position and claiming territory. Each turn, players take turns placing one piece on the board. As the game goes on it gets harder and harder to find a good spot, because space is running out. Some pieces do something the moment you place them. At the end comes the big moment: all pieces spread their influence, in order of speed. This is how you take territory away and block your opponents' slower pieces. Whoever has placed their own pieces most cleverly and gains the most influence on the board wins and may call themselves the new ruler. A game full of thinking ahead that you can play together at the table in about half an hour.