March of the Red Queen

You are the Red Queen. The road goes through their country. Seven rival Queens hold seven realms, and the only way to any of them is the long way across their fields, through their villages, past the people who live there. At the far end of every road there is a Queen, a table, and a reckoning.THE MARCHTravel through tiles of villages, magicians, tithe barns, until you reach the standard of rival Queen.

Everything is open information. There are no hidden statistics, no invisible timers, no rolls the game makes behind your back. THE CHOICEEvery tile is a card and every card asks something. Feed the starving and your column grows and eats more. Seize the grain and you'll be fed and remembered. The peasantry, the clergy and the merchants each keep their own count of you, and when a count crosses a line, a door opens or closes: a back gate offered, a road picketed, a convoy gone.THE RECKONINGThe choices that matter don't pay out on the spot.

They become deeds: Oaths and Intrigues that will shape the rest of your march and decide your destiny.THE DUELThree hits and a Queen is finished. Your army is the people still marching behind you, and it is the only thing between her and you.…