Castle Siege

While a single stone of its wall stands, nobody may enter a castle. Castle Siege is a turn-based hex strategy game drawn like an illuminated manuscript: build catapults and rams, wear rival defenses down to rubble and claim every keep in the kingdom.

How to play
1. Muster footmen, archers and knights in and beside your own keep and on the towns you hold.
2. Build catapults and rams at your siege workshop, the crane beside your keep. A catapult batters walls from two hexes away, while a ram must touch the wall but hits hardest.
3. Escort your engines, because they are slow and fragile, and keep troops at the foot of the stonework so the masons cannot patch it at the start of each turn.
4. Bring all 20 points of wall down and the castle is breached for good. March in or rout the garrison, and the lord's lands become yours.
5. Tap a red ring to read the exact odds, then tap again to strike. Hills, forest and town walls give cover, and a sally from your own battlements strikes half again as hard.

The chronicle runs across four kingdoms, each a folio of six maps: the low keeps of the Marches, the fog and forests of Greywold, the snowy passes of Aster Vale and the High King's heartland in the High Crown. Win four maps to open the next folio, and finish within par for three gold fleurons. Twelve rival lords guard their keeps, from Baron Aldric Thorne to the High King Aurelian, and each one you meet joins the Chronicle. Skirmish draws a fresh realm from a seed, sized Shire, March or Kingdom, against one to three timid, proud or ruthless lords. Victories fill the Armory with eight banners and six illuminations such as the Book of Hours and the Winter Calendar, while the Chronicle keeps your ledger of breaches, engines and sallies, plus 15 seals to win.

Castle Siege plays fully offline, with no login, no adverts and nothing to buy.

The masons of Thornwick are already at work on their stonework. Will you start with a catapult or a ram?