Description
A Feast for Odin is a saga in the form of a board game.
You are reliving the cultural achievements, mercantile expeditions, and pillages of those tribes we know as Viking today — a term that was used quite differently towards the end of the first millennium.
When the northerners went out for a raid, they used to say they headed out for a viking.
Their Scandinavian ancestors, however, were much more than just pirates. They were explorers and founders of states. Leif Eriksson is said to be the first European in America, long before Columbus.
In what is known today as Normandy, the intruders were not called Vikings but Normans.
One of them is the famous William the Conqueror who invaded England in 1066.
He managed to do what the king of Norway failed to do only a few years prior: conquer the Throne of England.
The reason why the people of these times became such strong seafarers is due to their unfortunate agricultural situation. Crop shortfalls caused great distress.
In this game, you will raid and explore new territories.
You will also experience their day-to-day activities: collecting goods to achieve a financially secure position in society.
In the end, the player whose possessions bear the greatest value will be declared the winner.
–gameplay description from @StoryBoardGamer’s review:
A Feast for Odin is a points-driven game, with plethora of pathways to victory, with a range of risk balanced against reward.
A significant portion of this is your central hall, which has a whopping -86 points of squares and a major part of your game is attempting to cover these up with various tiles.
Likewise, long halls and island colonies can also offer large rewards, but they will have penalties of their own.
Each year follows a familiar pattern of preparation, worker placement, and then meeting the requirements of your feast.
The main phase of each year is a worker placement affair. You start with a selection of Vikings, and a large action board with a whopping 61 different options to choose from. Each of these will be arranged from left to right in one of four columns. Each column requires an additional Viking to activate, but they are proportionally more powerful.
At the end of each round, you will need to fill a feast table with food, alternating between plants and vegetable matter.
You will also have a chance to lay the valuable green and blue tiles into your main hall.
The configuration of these tiles must follow certain requirements, but your main goal is to both cover up a line of coin icons to increase your income, while otherwise encircling certain printed icons to generate those.
You will build your engine over time, following an alternating pattern of outward expansion and hunting against development and cultivation.
It all comes down to how much you’re willing to take on at any one time, and what risks you’re willing to set yourself up with for their rewards.
A Feast for Odin: How’s it Play Solo?
One Stop | Solo Playthrough
Files
A selection of files from BoardGameGeek. Links will open in a new window or tab.
A Feast For Odin – Solo Booklet
A booklet containing GAFBlizzard’s solo scenarios and dotKeller’s puzzles as found in the weekly solo competition thread
This condensed low ink version of the file does not contain occupation descriptions and has had some graphical elements removed to reduce ink usage in printing.
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English Rulebook
English Rulebook
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Galileo’s AFFO Fan Expansion
PDF (Version 1.3) containing all the elements from my fan expansion for “A Feast for Odin” updated to be compatible with “The Norwegians” expansion.
This file contains everything you need to print and play with all the elements I created + flavor text and comprehensive rules to implement them in your games.
Have fun!
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English Almanac
The Almanac puts all game componets in a historical context. 20 pages written by Gernot Köpke.
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Special Tile Board with Crucifix in correct section
Colour corrected version that matches the original board as close as I can get it. This is the final version I’ll be uploading.
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A two page guide to all Actions
Just a word document with a table layout formatted to be similar to the action boar with a brief description of what each action does.
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Thorvaldroid
Solo Variant to A Feast for Odin
Features:
– Playing time is around 60 minutes
– Doesn’t require extra components
– Compete against an opponent instead of yourself
– Compatible with Norwegians expansion
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Extra Special Tiles for Feast for Odin
A small set of extra special tiles (with bonus spaces) to add a little variety to Feast for Odin.
Usual bonus space rules apply, ie there need to be no empty spaces around the bonus space for it to trigger.
Depending on how powerful you consider the tiles to be, you might care to houserule that only 1 of them can be taken in any particular turn.
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