The Last Kingdom Board Game Coming To Kickstarter Soon
February 17, 2023 by brennon
The Last Kingdom, the hit Netflix series, is going to be coming to tabletops soon from Gamelyn Games with a new board game! Destiny Is All!
The Last Kingdom Board Game - Kickstarter // Gamelyn Games
Much like in the show and the novels that it is based on, The Last Kingdom Board Game will have two-to-five players engaged in a game of war and politics and you seek to control the British Isles. With ten leaders for you to pick from, focused on both the Saxons and the Dane, you'll play out a game over two rounds where you'll command your armies and manoeuvre yourself politically as you seek to take command of the various corners of England.
The Last Kingdom The Board Game - Components // Gamelyn Games
As well as the special abilities of your leaders, you'll also draft a hand of cards that will aid you during the game round. You'll then move around your armies, gain affinities with different factions and look to turn the tide of war with the aid of notable characters from the series.
Once you have finished your turn, you'll gain victory points if you're on the winning side of any conflicts and war continues to the next region on the board. Once you've decided the fate of the five game regions, the round will end and you'll move on to the next one where the cycle begins anew. At the end of the game, the person with the most victory points from cunning manipulation and scheming will be crowned the winner.
The Last Kingdom Miniatures // Gamelyn Games
The game also looks to come with neat miniatures representing Uthred and the like. So, that might be a winner for a lot of folks seeking to get miniatures based off their favourite characters from the show.
This certainly sounds like an interesting game and it has the feel of something like The King Is Dead about it. I'm also getting Bretwalda vibes as well! It will be neat to see if this draws people to strategy board gaming thanks to The Last Kingdom title. It's a shame that the imagery isn't art and instead just screenshots from the show but it's understandable why they've done with that.
Will you be backing this on Kickstarter?
"At the end of the game, the person with the most victory points from cunning manipulation and scheming will be crowned the winner..."
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Mostly just surprised Gamelyn is venturing outside of the Tiny Epic ghetto that they normally cavort in. I have heard good things about the books.
I watched the first 3 seasons of the show and really liked it. I stopped watching, because it started to feel like it wasn’t building toward a conclusion; just when you think the end is in sight, *boom* a new main villain is introduced. I like my stories to have ends, so they don’t drag on and fizzle out.
As for this game, I’m seeing that there is literally no IP that someone won’t snag to turn into a board game or TTRPG.
Between The Last Kingdom, and Vikings, and Britannia, and Knightfall, and Black Sails, they all kind of blend together into a dirty mess. Lots of filthy dudes trudging around in forests.
I can’t speak for any of the others, as I never watched them, but yeah, there are a ton of very similar-looking, similar-themed shows out there! ?
Ooh fab, nice looking game.