Blood Rage

Deal eight cards each Age. Normally keep one and pass left until six have been kept, then discard the remaining two. With two players, keep two at a time in three selections, exchanging the remaining cards between selections, then discard the last two. Two-player setup removes all 3+ and 4+ cards and destroys three provinces.

Take one Invade, March, Upgrade, Quest or Pillage action per turn, paying its Rage cost. At zero Rage you cannot initiate even a free action. Passing loses all remaining Rage.

Invading normally costs a figure’s Strength and places it from reserve in an empty village in an outer province; ships enter fjords and leaders invade free. Respect the Horns limit on figures on the board; you cannot invade Yggdrasil directly. March costs one Rage and moves any number of your figures from one province to one other province, not necessarily adjacent. Ships cannot march.

Pay an upgrade card’s Strength in Rage and place it in the appropriate clan-sheet slot, replacing any old card there. Its effect persists. A troop or monster upgrade also permits an immediate free invasion with one corresponding figure from reserve, subject to legal placement and the Horns limit.

Pillaging first allows figures in adjacent provinces to join, then participants simultaneously reveal cards and compare total Strength. A highest-total tie makes every participant lose. Losers send participating figures to Valhalla and retrieve played cards; the winner discards played cards and gains glory equal to Axes.

Only an initiating pillager who wins receives the province reward. With no opposition, take the reward without battle glory. The Action phase ends when every surviving province has been pillaged or everyone has zero Rage.

Normally discard down to one card for the next Age; discard everything in Age III. Reveal committed quests next: success awards the printed glory and an optional stat increase; province-strength quests require an outright lead. Ragnarök then kills figures in the announced province and supporting fjord, awarding two, three or four glory each across the three Ages. Return Valhalla figures to reserve. After Age III, each stat at its fourth or fifth step awards ten glory, or twenty at its final step, not thirty. Most total glory wins.