1201 Castles

Max sensed the deep amusement of the Myceloid God as he began to understand the larger picture of the planetary situation.

There were currently three major military clusters, with fifty smaller clusters from each faction spread about the world in a vaguely familiar pattern.

They were well spaced, and matched in their dispersion, which finally gave away the intention of the deployment. This was a Castles board, a three-dimensional board game that had been popular in his past life. 

It was a strategy game, in that you had to preserve your outlying forces so that you had the might to overcome your enemies, but you couldn't move your Castle. If you lost the Castle, you lost the game, and if you lost your outlying forces, you were essentially helpless.