Tournament Joust (2011)

Tournament Joust is a 2 to 8 player board game depicting heroic Knight’s jousting in tournaments during the Middle Ages. The game can be played as a single day tournament or as a campaign with multiple Knights competing in different cities across England, finally leading up to the world championship.
The Basic Game – Players compete against one another in a single day tournament to find out who is the Champion Knight.
The game board consists of the graphical layout of the tournament list as well as each players lance tip location chart, horse movement card locations, Impact and stability charts, Knight reaction card locations, Aim card locations, and random lance tip movement charts.
Winning a match – Each match consists of three runs or passes, with the winner declared by breaking three lances across the Shield, Helm, or Crest. An immediate win will be granted by unhorsing your opponent or knocking his crest from his helm. In the event of a tie, the Knight with the most broken lances or strikes of his lance will win the match.
Winning the Tournament – The tournament is won by the knight who earns the most points from each match and jousts with honor. In the event of a tie, the Knight with the most match wins will be the tournament winner.
The game components consists of cards, tokens, markers, jousting figures, a single 10 sided die, a game board and rules.
Setup is relatively quick with minimal effort and game play can take around 30 to 45 minutes per jousting match.
The Advanced Game – Players compete in a campaign across Europe competing in Grand Tournaments to become the Grand champion. New rules cover fatigue, endurance, honor, and ransoms. Plus different skill levels and horse modifiers add taken into account for each joust. “Coming soon”
The Solitaire Game – Rules for solitaire play consist of single player games with random card sequences and lance tip movement changes that pit you against different types of Knight with different levels of expertise. “Coming soon”

As a huge medieval history buff, I've always loved reading about the history of England and of its Knights and Castles. In particular, I was fascinated with Knights performing in Grand Tournaments and jousting against one another in competition or to the death!

I found myself going to renaissance fairs watching actual Knights riding on beautiful steeds, jousting full contact in armor against each other. This was actual jousting competitions and not live action shows you see in Vegas.

After years of research and continues refinements, I felt I was able to recreate in a game format the true feel of a Tournament Joust competition. My goal was to create something as close to the actual process of two knights jousting against one another. I’ve tried to simulate all the nuances and subtle details of two Knights charging one another on warhorses down the list, while aiming a moving lance at your opponent, who can react to your tactics and with his own creative style.

Tournament Joust is just that; a new game of simulating grand tournaments with heroic Knights competing across England in jousting matches for glory and riches.

It uses elements of strategy, tactics, and just a little bit of luck.

The game consists of a main game board where all action takes place. The components consist of Movement cards, Aiming cards, Knight Reaction cards, one D10 die, red and blue player tokens/colored cubes, knights jousting figures, a rulebook, and player/character sheets.

I’ve tried to make the game play as detailed as possible with total randomness taken out completely. The only random aspect of the game is the chance movement of your lance tip when you increase the speed of your horse charging down the list!

All action takes place simultaneously with each player’s actions and reactions happening at the same time.

The game plays as a single tournament with up to 8 players or it can be played as a campaign with tournament across England culminating into a Grand world championship finally.