In my younger days, I foolishly believed that leadership was a matter of careful reasoning and moral probity.
Idealistic notions of serving the interests of the people go bye-bye when the stark choice is between their happiness and my hide. My personal antagonism toward religious parasites is softened when their power is greater than my own. Justice is more easily served when the military is strong than when it is weak. A decision made in the flush of a healthy treasury comes more easily than one made when the coffers are diminished. So I quickly recall something fundamental about leadership. The interests of my nobles rarely align with those of the great unwashed. I can also be bumped off for being too popular with the people. This being Westeros, the means of dispatching unwanted royalty is richly evocative. When one or more reaches zero, I’m a sitting duck. These four pillars of power are represented as gauges at the top of my screen. They often cost me reputational capital among either the public or the church. Most of them cost money, or they damage my military. This is a fact of life, whether you’re the first of the Andals, or you’re Vicky, who runs the accounts department at a knicker factory in Lancashire.Īs the king/queen of Westeros, each decision I make carries a consequence. But it also reveals the dismal truth about leadership and power, the cheapness of its transactional, provisional, compromising nature. Reigns: Game of Thrones’ simplicity is both deceptive and instructional. In this respect, it’s a perfectly made pass-the-time game for mobile phones, but it’s also worth playing on PC. The interface is set up like a Tinder account, so I swipe a card left or right, depending on my decision. So, shall I improve the morale of the people and throw a swell party? Or, shall I save my dwindling funds for more urgent considerations? Will I send the army out to face the wights, or is it better to sit back and make use of city walls? Generally, I can do the thing that seems best all around, or the thing that is less good, but will have to suffice for now. I’m given only two options to resolve each of my problems.
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