Knights and Knaves (board game)

Knights and Knaves is a 1979 board game published by Nimrod Game Development that focuses on the feudal relationships of medieval European society during the High Middle Ages. Players navigate the web of obligations, loyalties and rivalries that bound lords, vassals and other feudal actors to one another, turning the structure of feudal allegiance itself into the game's central mechanic rather than a battlefield conflict. As a period piece built around the social and political system of medieval Europe rather than a specific war or campaign, it represents the strand of 1970s hobby wargaming that modeled governance and social structure alongside, or instead of, direct military combat.