How to Raise an Army in medieval England GAME! Edward's wars with Wales and Scotland

This is a game of strategy and planning designed specifically to help understand the difference and importance of feudal knights and vassels etc and how conflicts required vast amount of resources.

This links to the OCR explaining the modern world Paper 2 war and society unit and deals with Edward I’s wars with Wales and Scotland.

Students would ideally need to have completed their lessons on these conflicts first.
Students have to strategise what they would take for each of the campaigns.
The game is then a sequence of historical scenarios which sees them lose or gain points depending upon their earlier decisions.

This has worked really well with our GCSE classes but is also something that could be done as a drop down day needed skills of collaboration, maths, strategy, planning and organisation.

This is a 38 slide ppt which includes printable resources for students to make notes plus a sheet which explains the various roles of each of the soldiers.