Goodly Trials

Ways to Play

Ways to Play

Take one company down the long road home, or bring it to a live table where every rival wants the same good blade. Both ways begin with hiring, arming, and choosing who stands where.

The journey home

  1. Training
  2. Fair Trial
  3. Unfair Trial
  4. Ranked
  • One company, one shop. Hire, equip, place, and fight across twelve trials. Three battles without a win end the journey.
  • Training → Fair → Unfair → Ranked. Each finished road unlocks the next, plus multiplayer, bosses, and Deed spending after Fair.
  • Unfair and Ranked raise the stakes. Unfair unlocks Old Man and later leader traits; Ranked starts at Soldier: 200 and moves with each journey.

The Ranked road

  1. Peasant0
  2. Soldier100
  3. Squire300
  4. Knight500
  5. Veteran700
  6. Marshal900
  7. High Marshal1,150
  8. Champion1,400

The multiplayer tournament

  1. Draft
  2. Live bidding
  3. Lock in
  4. Combat
  5. Standings
  • 2–8 companies, live. A host seats humans and AI, then sets how often every pair meets.
  • Bid one decision at a time. Contested items open at list price; rivals raise or pass. Mixed-faction lobbies put units up for bid too.
  • Lock your line, then fight the table. Companies prepare independently; standings run across the whole season until one champion remains.