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Vikings on Board

Set sails, control ship

Viking tribes prepare for an expedition and want to set sail with the best possible equipped ships. You bet on your own Vikings and try to downgrade other ship crews and supply values of other tribes. The active player places his Viking that is first in line in the village onto one of the action cases and implements the action. The turn order for the first round is determined as stated in the rules, from round 2 on the choice of action determines positions of players in the turn order. Action options are: Starting player for the next round - move ship body part - relocate one of your own ship body parts between ships - relocate any ship body part - place a bet, only once on a ship - place bet or relocate bet - draw supplies and place one on any ship - switch ship body parts between two ships - set sails.

If someone choses “Set Sail”, he places his ship stern part at the intended ship and pushes it out a bit. Then you determine who controls the ship - that is the tribe = player who has most shields depicted on ship body parts - and the ship supplies are distributed among the tribes represented on the ship. If you did place a correct bet on the control of the ship, you take your betting chip without revealing it. Chips placed for lost bets can be relocated to ships that have not yet set sails. When seven ships have set sail, you add the values of your supplies and betting wins.

A very well-working mix of mechanisms, challenging and yet suitable for a family, albeit with some gaming experience, as the placement of ship body parts and bets as well as the selection of actions are quite tactical, after all.

Players: 2-4

Age: 8+

Time: 60+

Designer: Charles Chevallier, Pascal Pelemans, Catherine Dumas

Artist: Maëva da Silva, Christine Dechamps

Price: ca. 37 Euro

Publisher: Blue Orange Games 2016

Web: www.blueorangegames.eu

Genre: Worker placement 

Users: For families

Version: multi

Rules: de en es fr it nl pt ru + cn cz

In-game text: no

Comments:

Sumptuous and attractive components

Good for families with some gaming experience

Also of interest for experienced players

Compares to:

Worker placement games

Other editions:

Broadway Toys (cn), ADC Blackfire (cz, de), Blue Orange (en)

Chance (pink): 0

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0