Slay is a simple to learn game of strategy and cunning set in medieval times. The island is divided up between the six players, and you must try to capture your enemies' land and link up your own territories to create larger and stronger ones. You begin capturing land by attacking with your peasants. Once your territories become richer you can combine peasants to make stronger and stronger people (Spearmen, Knights and then Barons) who can kill weaker enemy troops, or knock down their castles. Just be careful that you don't create too many expensive men or the territory will go bankrupt!

The latest version of Slay for Windows allows you to play games over a network or the Internet.

Playing Slay: The object of Slay is to capture the whole of the island by killing all of your enemies' people and capturing their land. To start a game click on one of the tree icons. Each icon represents a different island that you can play on.

The land that you own is divided into territories of adjoining hexagons. Each territory of two or more hexagons in size will have its own capital, shown by a house. The money that a territory has is kept in the capital.

At the beginning of each of your turns a waving flag will appear over the capitals of any territories which have enough money to buy new peasants or castles. Click on the capital and its information will be shown in the box to the right of the screen. If there is either a peasant or a castle shown in this box you can then click on one of them and drag it onto an empty hexagon in the capital's territory. Once you have bought a piece you can never sell it back.

If your men have neither captured an enemy hexagon nor chopped down a tree during this turn they will jump up and down to show that they can still be moved. You can pick up a jumping man and drag him as many times as you want within his own territory, but he can make only one attack per turn onto an enemy hexagon adjoining his territory or chop down one tree in his own territory. He may not attack enemy hexagons if the hexagon is too well defended by enemy pieces. If you want to attack a hexagon which is well defended you can combine two of your men to produce a single, stronger man.

Jumping men and capitals with enough money to buy new things are highlighted in the Map window by flashing red dots.