Blood on the living-room table: why I still love the Game of Thrones board game

Everyone's favourite fantasy drama is back on screen - but there's even more backstabbing, plotting and fantasy to be had with the game first released in 2003

When you play the Game of Thrones, as Cersei Lannister famously observed, you win or you die. And at this particular moment, my chances for survival didn't look too good.

I'd set out from my home on Dragonstone intent on raiding the Lannister lands on the eastern shores of Westeros. With a strong force of cavalry, infantry and ships, I'd planned a succession of lightning attacks that would culminate in my seizing the city of King's Landing and establishing House Baratheon as the rightful holders of the Iron Throne.