Sword of Orthodoxy
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Sword of Orthodoxy: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium 420-1453
Sword of Orthodoxy is a strategic solitaire game of the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, simulating its saga from 421 AD until the end of the 15th century – an epic thousand year tale of heroism, betrayal, intrigue, and spectacular cultural achievements.
In Sword of Orthodoxy, The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, your task is to guide a former Greek colony founded in 667 BC on the Bosporus from its hard-scrabble beginnings as an emergent power in 421 AD to becoming the capital of the vast thousand-year city state known to history as the Eastern Roman Empire and to the world as the fabulous and storied Byzantium.
This game is a high-level strategic view of history. Details are cleverly simplified to make it playable and to emphasize the “cool stuff” of the period, like religious conflict, barbarian hordes, Byzantine politics, dynastic intrigue, scheming empresses, Greek Fire, Mongols, plagues, jihads, naval sieges, Khans, Caliphs, and Crusaders. Sword of Orthodoxy is meant to be a fun and challenging game on the salient themes of the actual period that whets the player’s appetite to learn more about this fascinating age.
A solitaire game, Sword of Orthodoxy is designed by Charles S. Roberts Award winner Ben Madison, who also designed the following other White Dog Games titles: Global War, The Mission, The First Jihad, The White Tribe, Mrs. Thatcher's War, N, Don't Tread on Me, Gift of the Nile, Jeff Davis, Kaiserkrieg, and Gorbachev.
Sword of Orthodoxy features a beautiful game map by artist Jose Faura.