Tabletop games
Blood Rage
Edge EntertainmentEric M. Lang2015
- players
- 2–4
- minutes
- 90
- years
- 14+
In the box
1 Yggdrasil board · Warrior, leader and ship figures for 4 clans · Monster figures · God cards to draft, over three ages · Clan boards · Ragnarök tiles and tokens
Official rules (PDF, publisher's site)
Box details
- Designer
- Eric M. Lang
- Artwork
- Henning Ludvigsen, Adrian Smith
- Publisher
- Edge Entertainment
- Mechanics
- DraftingArea MajorityZone of ControlHand ManagementOnce-Per-Game Abilities
- Expansions
- Blood Rage: 5th Player Expansion · 2015
Where to buy it
Near you and online
In a shop
Within 50 km.
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The basics
Each player leads their Viking clan to the greatest glory over three Ages, each opened by a card draft. On your turn, spend Rage to invade, march, upgrade your clan, take a quest or pillage a province, which triggers a battle in which each participant plays a card. Glory from pillages, battles and quests adds up; after the third Age and the clan sheet bonuses, the most Glory wins.
The rules, step by step
Setup
1 clan each, Hidden pillage tokens, Ragnarök province
- Each player takes a clan: its figures, its clan sheet and its markers.
- Place a pillage token face down in each province.
- Mark on the board the province that Ragnarök will destroy in the first Age.
How to play
3 Ages, Draft at start of Age, Spend your Rage
- The game lasts three Ages. Each Age begins with a draft: you keep one card and pass the rest on, until you have your hand for the Age.
- Players then take turns, spending Rage to invade, march, upgrade their clan, take a quest or pillage.
- Pillaging a province triggers a battle with the figures present and those from neighbouring provinces that come to fight.
- Each participant plays a card: the highest total strength wins. The losers' figures go to Valhalla.
- The Age ends when nobody has any Rage or possible action left. Quests are then checked, then Ragnarök destroys a province.
- The figures in Valhalla return to their owners for the next Age.
Scoring
Pillages, Battles won, Quests completed
- A successful pillage of a province gives its reward.
- Each battle won earns Glory, according to your Axes level.
- A quest completed at the end of the Age earns the Glory shown on the card.
- Some cards played during the game also earn Glory.
End of the game
After the 3rd Age, Clan sheet bonuses, Most Glory
- After the third Age, add the end-of-game bonuses from the clan sheet.
- The most Glory wins.
Going further
Frequently asked questions · In the same family
Frequently asked questions
Is losing a battle a big deal?
Not necessarily: dead warriors come back in the next Age, and some cards actually reward defeats.
What happens to the cards played in battle?
The winner discards the card they played; the losers take theirs back into their hand.