“THE HIGH CRUSADE" game is a stategic level recreation of the events of Poul Anderson’ novel The High Crusade. The game begins after the Crusaders’ capture of their first planet. The Crusader Player attempts to Convert the Empires Thrall Races, make alliances with Independent Races against the Empire. and lead this coalition to victory. The Wersgorix Player must frustrate Crusader attempts to gain Thrall Race and Independent forces and marshal his own scattered units to meet the threat of this strange unknown invader from deep space.
INTRODUCTION
AD. 1345 — England prepares for a war against the French, Baron Sir Roger de Tourneville gathers his knights, men-at-arms, and hired mercenaries. They meet at Castle Ansby.
AD. 1345 — — A scouting ship of the great Wersgorix Empire, interstellar conquerors and masters of this portion of the Galaxy, travels through space. The Wersgorix look for a new planet to settle. The Weragorix ship finds a planet and lands near an isolated and insignificant village. named Ansby. The crew prepares to terrorize the natives and secure the planet for the Wersgorix.
Everything goes wrong. Sir Roger’ men, their blood fired and their souls supported by the Church, charge the alien “demons” The Wersgorix crew is overwhelmed and all are slain but one. The prisoner is most coaperative, especially with One-Eye Hubert, the executioner waiting in the wings. All of Ansby prepares for a journey.
With Sir Roger leading them, the villagers of Ansby embark on a Crusade — into space aboard a captured Wersgorix spaceship. With their swords and trebuchets, the Crusaders, take on the might of the Wersgorix Empire. The High Crusade has begun.