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Have you been having problems with stability and as such haven't been able to build as many quarters as you'd like? Boom you now have all of the pearls, porcelain, and ebony your lord has so long as you kiss their ring during meetings. Yes, your luxuries and strategic resources are theirs now.But theirs are also yours! Did they have an edge on you because they had access to iron? Now you have iron to build up your own armies. It makes the vassal an underdog fighting not only armies but the will of their 'oppressed' people and puts the Liege in a true position of power that isn't easily ripped away by a mere surprise war or dog pile when the liege enters another war. When you take into account the pros (which are coming next) if you still decide to rebel, because the Liege has an overwhelming influence over your territories you are going to take a penalty to your war score each turn. This second bit is the most advantageous for the Liege imo but it is also mechanically sensible for one reason: rebellion. Additionally, your influence goes to extending their sphere of influence not your own. Your gods are dead, you now worship your lieges religion. You're a tributary so you are going to be paying your liege a percentage of your income each turn. I am not sure how this works if you want to go to war with someone that isn't your liege but I am interested to find out and am working on becoming a vassal in my current playthrough to test it. You can't control trade routes (which we will get to later) open borders, map sharing. However, because vassalage is somewhat of an inevitability when it comes to early wars Amplitude has taken an interesting approach to keep it engaging and because of the win condition (fame), it is possible albeit difficult for a vassal to actually have a better score than their liege.Įssentially your liege acts as your mouthpiece. Take a look at the Spanish version here.Obviously, this rings some alarms at first as in most strategy games vassalage just leads to one or two things: either you are so handicapped that you might not even be playing and are really just hanging out with your friends and not leaving the session, or you sit there the entire time plotting your revenge (Look at Total War for how vassals will always bite you in the ass). We are working hard to finish the translation in order to be able to publish it under creative commons.

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Download it here.įor those who do not have time, we just uploaded the game already made in The Game Crafter.

Plaaying vassal with friends free#

In the designer’s notes we explain why we have made some decisions in this game design.Įnjoy Taifa, our last free game under creative commons. You can download the components strictly necessary to play already translated here. We now have the period 1565 – 1610 in Ultima Ratio ready. We are still working hard with the translation. The rules for Ultima Ratio Regis, translated and revised are already available here. The good news is that you can buy it from Worthington Publishing. We have to say goodbye for a time to our beloved game Crusader Kingdoms. We don’t know about any wargame, where this conflict can be represented so realistically with such simplicity. Our very good friend and partner Victor Catalá has designed Downfall of Empires, a game where between 2 and 4 players can fight the First World War in less than 3 hours. Now free as usual here, so you can play it with family or friends. Its simplicity coupled with its extraordinary depth makes it, in our opinion, the best economic simulation game you can find. We finally have our old friend Ekonos among us. In fact this version can be enjoyed even without players, only with spectators. We include a more interesting management of the garrisons, a new scenario with El Cid, and especially a set of rules to play solo.

This Christmas brings us a new version of our mythical game Taifa. We have a VASSAL module for Taifa available at the bottom of the page.

Here you have the 2.0 version that among other things includes a spectacular graphic design by the hand as always of Jesus Peralta. We have not been idle all this time with Ultima Ratio Regis. At the bottom of the page you have the download link. Our thanks to Frédéric Velasco and especially to Milton Soong. Good news, we already have the VASSAL module for ultima ratio regis. We are only moved by the interest that other people have as much fun as we do with these games. We are a non-profit site that publishes high quality board games under Creative Commons licenses.