The Peasants Are Coming!

THE PEASANTS ARE COMING You are the nobility and tens of thousands of peasants march on your lands. So grab and toss 'em! • Fling them back up the road. • Drop them in the Recruiting Pen. Recruits crew your pieces. • Upgrades let you grab more at once. Place towers along the road • Ballista: fires bolts down the road. • Trebuchet: throws casks of milk into the crowd. • Boiling Oil: pours on whoever passes. • Knights' Sally: sends knights out to fight. Step into any piece to fire it yourself. It shoots faster and hits harder. Or don't fight them • Bread and Circus: the music pulls them off the road. • Broadsheet Press: they stop to read, and some go home. • Gallows: the crowd decides to go somewhere else. • Pulpit, Tax Booth, Milk House, Rumor Monger. Lord's powers • Call the Cavalry: riders charge down the road. • Bribe: a rain of purses. • Royal Decree: they stop to listen. Choose what to defend • Lose the treasury: half your takings walk off. • Lose the chapel: your gate loses a quarter of its strength. • Lose the gate: the battle is over. Break their leaders Each mob has ringleaders with their own plan. Kill one and its band scatters. • The Preacher goes for your weakest spot. • The Baker marches for the grain. Between waves pick one of the Lord's Favors: stronger pieces, a bigger purse, a tougher gate.