On Wednesday, Sue and I paid a visit to Eltham Palace. After a very enjoyable walk around the palace grounds, we stopped off in the shop. Sue saw that they were selling copies of RISK, THE BATTLE FOR MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.

This game was exclusively made for English Heritage and is only available from them, and as it was a ‘Member’s Day’ and everything was 20% off, she bought me a copy.

The game contains the following components:

• A gameboard which is divided up into five regions (North, Midlands, East Anglia, Southeast, and Southwest), each of which is made up on a number of territories that are named after English Heritage properties).
• Five armies of small plastic figures (red, blue yellow, black, and green) that are comprised of infantry, cavalry, and siege catapults.
• Five D6 dice (three black and two red).
• A pack of forty-two Territory Cards, ten Mission Cards, and nine Power Cards.

It looks as if the game will be an interesting version of RISK to play … and I can see myself using the figures for a Medieval version of the PORTABLE WARGAME and the gameboard for a campaign.