Plus, you can also raid castles with your fencing skill or go on a tournament with your jousting skill. You collect taxes, buy armies, and send them into battle.
(Wait, what? Wasn't Richard Lionheart a Norman? Whatever.) As a heroic Saxon, you have to defend the English monarchy from the dastardly Normans. In Defender of the Crown, King Lionheart has been murdered. While the game is only barely like any of its progeny, it was groundbreaking back in its own days, and it still has nostalgia value to some people.
A classic Turn-Based Strategy game produced by Cinemaware in the late 1980s.