Your standing with your army facing the enemies army... On a given command arrows are in the air and swords starts swinging against one another...
The battle is played by cards in a very tactical way, battle for battle... Lose a battle and you lose a unit. The first player that loses all his units will lose the game.
The best way for you to find out how great this game really is, are to check out the action pictures and read the rules.... The rules are not so hard to understand but the game really takes a mind of a tactic player to win....
Just read the rules...
Note. The game can be played by 4 players. You can download the rules for that here once you have the game. When you play 4 players you play 2 vs 2.