A Feast for Odin

• Place 3 action boards with side up corresponding to player count
• Place goods trays andround overview tile (with tracking cube) on table
• Place victory points tokens on table in stacks by number
• Place supply boards on table:
  • Special tile boards:
    • Smaller oval board holds 6 tiles with forge tongs icon and sword value < 9
    • Larger oval board holds other 15 tiles:
      • 5 of these tiles that have forge tongs symbol on them go in dark grey section of board
      • Remaining 10 go on light grey area
  • Ship supply board:
    • Place small emigration tiles, whaling boat, knarr andd longship tokens
• Prepare decks of cards:
  • Weapons cards:
    • Remove one of each card for each player:
      • Bow and arrow
      • Snare
      • Spear
    • Shuffle remaining weapons cards to form deck to draw from during game
  • Occupation Cards:
    • Shuffle light backed occupation cards separately
    • Dark backed occupation cards:
      • Beginners: Shuffle deck A
      • Experienced Players: Shuffle decks B and C together
      • Alternatively, just shuffle decks A, B and C together
• Prepare mountain strips:
  • Shuffle mountain strips:
    • Longer one from The Norwegians expansion can (optionally) be used for the last round of the game or just shuffled with the other strips as usual
  • Place 2 strips on the table:
    • 4P: Place 3 strips
  • Place resources as depicted on strips
• Prepare exploration boards:
  • Randomly select one board for each of letters A, B, C and D
  • Place each selected board with side showing letter in bottom right corner facing up
• Prepare building tiles:
  • Place shed, stone house and long house tiles in stacks on table
  • Shuffle artisan sheds stack separately
• Each player receives:
  • 1 player board
  • 12 viking meeples in their colour:
    • Place 5 in thing square
    • Place remaining 7 on numbered spaces of banquet track
  • 1 mead (red 1x2 tile)
  • 1 of each of the following cards:
    • Light-backed occupation card
    • Snare weapon card
    • Bow and arrow weapon card
    • Spear weapon card
  • 1 randomly chosen artisan shed tile

The game is played over 7 rounds in which players take turns placing vikings from the thing square on their player board onto action spaces on the action boards. The goal of the game is to collect and place tiles on your player boards, artisan shed tiles and any other building/exploration tiles obtained during the game to collect resources, money and bonuses.

It is important to note that all cards obtained throughout the game are placed face-up in your supply in front of you. All information about the cards, tiles and boards you have are all public information.

Generally speaking, the way you earn points is through doing the following:

• Covering negative points spaces on your boards
• Gaining income to earn money
• Gaining buildings and filling them up with tiles as much as possible
• Breeding animals
• Using ships to emigrate
• Playing occupation cards

Each round has 12 phases, most of which are quite short. The bulk of the game is played in the actions phase (phase 5).

During phases 7 and 10, all income and bonuses are generated at the same time, meaning that you cannot earn income/bonuses using tiles in the same phase that they were received

You are not allowed to discard or give away anything outside of an action

The game ends at the end of the feast phase (phase 9) of the 7th round. You can place any tiles from your supply that you wish (following standard placement rules) before final scoring commences.

This guide will not step throgh every action on the board, as there are too many, however the spaces follow some general patterns:

• Green spaces just show you what you receive for landing on them
• Grey spaces show an exchange that you can perform once for landing on them
• Golden brown spaces allo the player to take resources from mountain strips and to exchange goods tiles:
  • When taking resources from mountain strips:
    • Always take from left side of strip
    • If you, for example, are taking 2 mountain strip resources, both resources must come from the same strip
    • If multiple strips are shown on the action space, each group must come from a single strip
  • When trading goods:
    • Tiles are traded in the following sequence:
      • Yellow -> Red -> Green -> Blue
    • If a single arrow is depicted on the space, each tile can only be upgraded a single time during the turn
• Blue spaces require you to have a knarr on your player board
• Yellow spaces are for emigration:
  • When using a knarr or longship:
    • Flip the ship to its back side and place it on the leftmost space of the banquet table
    • You can only take this action if you have room in your banquet table for the ship
    • After performing this action, the flipped ship is no longer considered a ship
    • If you have ore on your ship when you use it for this action, the ore is lost
  • When using a whaling boat:
    • Place a small emigration tile on the banquet table instead
    • Return the whaling boat to the supply
• Orange spaces are for exploration:
  • When you take a board, you have to have at least one ship matching a ship shown on the action space
  • You can only take a board showing the action space you are currently using
  • If there is silver on the board you chose, take the silver and place it in your own supply
  • You keep whichever ship you used to do the exploration
• Red action spaces provide actions that require a die roll:
  • Raiding and Pillaging:
    • You want to roll as high a number as possible
    • You may roll the die shown at the top left of the action space up to 3 times:
      • If you choose to re-roll, the previous roll is then invalidated
    • You can then modify the number rolled and announce it as your battle result:
      • The items on the left of the action space show which items can be discarded to increase battle result by one
    • Then you declare the action either a success or a failure
    • If you fail, you receive the items in the left section of the action space as a consolation
    • If you succeed, you can take an item from the oval special tiles board less than or equal to your battle result number in sword value
  • Hunting, Laying a Snare and Whaling:
    • You want to roll as low a number as possible
    • You may roll the die shown at the top left of the action space up to 3 times:
      • If you choose to re-roll, the previous roll is then invalidated
    • You can then modify the number rolled and announce it as your battle result:
      • Each ore on your longship reduces your battle result by 2
      • The items on the left of the action space show which items can be discarded to decrease battle result by one
    • Then you declare the action either a success or a failure
    • If you fail, you receive the items in the left section of the action space as a consolation
    • If you succeed, you can take the items shown on the action space

There are 4 types of occupation card effects:

• Blue: These effects can be triggered at any time, and any number of times
• Yellow: These effects can be triggered one time, immediately when the card is played
• Red: The effect in the dark red area can be used whenever the condition in the light red area is met
• Green: The effect in the dark green area is triggered one time as soon as the condition in the light green area is met

Red cards can trigger multiple times in a game, whereas the green card effects will only trigger one time in a game

Effects on occupation cards cannot be used until they have been played as part of an action. When you have the opportunity to play an opportunity card, you are able to instead discard the opportunity card and take a victory point token from the supply with the highest available value.