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A Game of Thrones is a strategy board game created by Christian T. Petersen and released by Fantasy Flight Games in 2003. It was followed in 2004 by an expansion, A Clash of Kings.

The game is based on the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series by George R. R. Martin. The board game and its expansion loosely mirror the events of the first two books in the series, A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings.

In 2004 A Game of Thrones won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Board Game of 2003.

Game play

This board game is interesting in its combination of several elements to create a wonderful strategic challenge. Compared to other strategic board games available, AGOT:BG is a new, fresh and complex version, which resolves the entire war very quickly (2-3 hours on average).

Placing Orders Instead of players deciding what their troops will do in advance, they place orders for a general theme of what their forces can do in a turn. From there, all forces reveal their orders at once. It requires a degree of anticipation of the enemies movements and strategy, and limits the ability to react.

Deterministic Battle Battles between armies are resolved in a deterministic fashion, not by the roll of dice. An element of randomness is involved, in drawing leader cards to augment the army's strength, but the values of the cards are known before entering battle, and all the Houses have equivalent value cards.

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