10 Most Interesting Facts About Going Medieval game
- The game is set in the lowlands in the year 1403.
- The players must take on the roles of medieval lords and ladies, farmers, knights, craftsmen, and other villagers.
- The game is played in turns. A player's turn consists of an action phase and a harvest phase.
- The game has a board with spaces for fields, pastures, and woods.
- The fields produce food, the pastures produce livestock, and the woods produce wood.
- There are two ways to earn victory points, by harvesting or by the player's lord.
- Players take turns with the dice, rolling the dice to try and get certain numbers, which then assign the player a number of actions.
- The game's art design is based on the work of medieval artists.
- The game was originally designed by Klaus Teuber.
- The game won the German Spiel des Jahres award in 1989.