Raiders of the North Sea

• Place boards in centre of table:
  • Place Mead Hall board below main board
  • Place Township board at bottom right of main board
• Prepare townsfolk deck and place next to game board
• Prepare offering tiles:
  • Shuffle tiles and place next to game board
  • Place 3 tiles face up on offering spaces
• Shuffle quest tiles and place near game board
• Shuffle Jarl cards and place face down on lower card space of Township board
• Randomly place 4 reputation tiles face up on spaces to right of Mead Hall
• Randomly place 3 townsfolk cards face up in spaces to left of Mead Hall:
  • Cards in these spaces are always placed from left to right
• Randomly draw required number of plunder/Valkyrie tokens for each plunder set space on settlement spaces
• Place remaining plunder/Valkyrie tokens near board to form supply
• Place white/grey workers on raid spaces as marked
• Place black workers on following spaces in village:
  • Gate House
  • Town Hall
  • Treasury
• Place silver/provisions near game board
• Each player receives:
  • 1 player board
  • 1 encounter board
  • 2 silver
  • 1 black worker marker
  • 1 ship card in their chosen colour
  • 5 townsfolk cards:
    • Players choose 1 card to hire for free, keeping the card face down at this time
    • Players then pass 1 card to the player on their right and one to the player on their left
    • Players then reveal the card they hired for free
    • All players will now have 4 cards, 2 they were dealt and 2 that were given to them by other players
• Place score markers for each player on each of following:
  • Armour track
  • Valkyrie track
  • Victory point track
  • Fame track
• Roll red dice to determine starting player

The game is played in a series of turns, going clockwise starting with the start player.

On your turn, you will do the following two things:

• Place the worker marker you have on an empty location space and, optionally, resolve its action
• Pick up a different worker marker from an already occupied space and, optionally, resolve its action

You will always start your turn with a worker marker and will always finish your turn with a worker marker.

The following limits should be checked at the end of your turn:

• 8 cards in your hand
• 8 mead

The game end is triggered when one of the following conditions is met:

• Only 1 fortress raid remains on the board
• All Valkyrie are removed from the board
• All offerings have been made

The player that triggered the game end completes their turn, then all players take one more turn.

Final scoring then commences.