Champions of Midgard

The base game supports 2–4 players over eight rounds. Set market stalls, ships and spaces for the player count; choose leaders and take starting resources, a warrior and a Destiny card. Two-player starting worker counts differ from larger games.

Restock enemies, journeys and accumulating supplies each round; refill only empty Rune spaces. Starting with the first player, take clockwise turns placing one worker and resolving its location until all workers are placed.

Most locations accept one worker. Red combat spaces reserve a later battle. A longhouse holds at most eight warrior dice when recruiting; existing warriors cannot be discarded to make room for excess recruits.

After placement, assign warriors to reserved combats and ships before combat resolution starts. Food and warriors together must fit each ship, and enemy restrictions on warrior types must be checked.

Resolve hunting, the troll, draugr from left to right, then distant shores from left to right. Hunting yields at most six Food; its proceeds cannot be added to ships already loaded.

For each distant shore, resolve the Journey card, feed warriors according to the shore icon, then fight. Return unfed warriors to supply and return all food sent, including any surplus.

Each combat round rolls every committed warrior. Spend Favor to reroll some or all dice; weapons deal damage and shields reduce warrior losses from the enemy attack. Damage is simultaneous even when the enemy is killed.

Continue combat until the enemy suffers lethal damage or all committed warriors are lost. A victor takes its card and rewards and recovers survivors. A troll victor discards one Blame if possible and gives another player one; otherwise everyone gains one at cleanup.

Cleanup recovers workers and ships, discards undefeated trolls and draugr and revealed Journeys, and adds a Coin to each undefeated distant monster. After round eight, score Destinies, three-color enemy sets, Runes, private ships, Favor and Coins, then apply the Blame penalty table.

Most Glory wins. Ties favor the player with more defeated enemy cards, including trolls; a further tie is shared. Trolls do not form color sets, and only your own Destiny cards score for you.