The truth is that it's just hard to do the kind of negotiating and backroom dealing that make A Game of Thrones fun without setting up separate voice chat channels, and there's no way to facilitate that without a deeply invested group. Playing with other people is the heart of A Game of Thrones, and the social aspect-the bargaining, wheeling, and dealing-has made it enduringly popular. It's a shame there are only challenges for four of the six houses, and only 10 challenges total. Singleplayer is most interesting in the Challenge scenarios, however, a series of missions that force you into puzzle-like circumstances with goals outside the normal victory conditions. You can even do some rudimentary diplomacy with it by pointing out threatening leaders or making vaguely committal non-aggression pacts. It fights hard in normal Skirmish matches, and especially understands how to punish players who overextend themselves.
Playing against the AI is otherwise as interesting as it could be, which is a pleasant surprise. An option, deeply divisive among players, adds some randomness to fights, but not enough to sway them if one side has overwhelming advantage. Hands are open, so you always know whether you can win a fight or not. You add up the strength of the units involved and add one of the character cards from your hand for a total. The holder of the Iron Throne breaks ties outside of combat, the holder of Fiefdom breaks ties in combat, and the master of the King's Court gets to change an order after they see what others are doing.Ĭombat is simple and deterministic.
The effectiveness and variety of orders is often determined by one of three power tracks, which no one house can be the master of: Iron Throne, Fiefdom, and King's Court. I might order my knights to march into enemy territory, my ships to support the attack, and my infantry to raid and disrupt the enemy's defenses before I go in. Each round players secretly give orders to every region on the map with their troops in it: They move to another region, defend, support other troops, consolidate power to gain resources, or raid to disrupt enemy orders.
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