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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated Vikings in Tabletop Games

Sep 2, 2019

Vikings

2007 | Economic, Medieval, Nautical, Territory Building

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Auction Wheel (1 more)

deeper strategy than anticipated

Theme doesn't really fit.... maybe it should be the English? (0 more)

Better than it should be considering you don't plunder pillage anything.

I really enjoyed my play of this one, we took it home and played it about 3 more times that night. It really is a fast economic based game. but the puzzle of the market bidding is fun. and trying to anticipate others moves is also fun. So far we have only played the basic rules, and not made our way to the advanced ones yet. But I'm glad I've added this to our collection.

All that said: don't expect to do viking things, there is no killing and pillaging, and raiding... your warriors defend, and don't attack... seems like a miss as far as theme goes.