Crown and Council is a fairly simple turn-based strategy game on small maps divided into regions. Each region you hold will generate one gold per turn. One gold is also how much it costs to send your army into a region adjacent to your own and take over it. Unless there’s a three-gold Fort defending it, increasing the number of attacks a region can resist. Then you get expensives ships which can attack anywhere, villages which increase a tile’s gold output, universities… they’re simple pieces, but combine to be quite pleasing.

75 maps are included, and it has a generator to procedurally create more.

Crown and Council is the work of Mojang’s Henrik Pettersson, who has been tinkering with it for a while since starting it in a game jam. It’s out now free on Steam for Windows. Steam’s got a trailer too, if you want a peek first.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/444250/