Odin - Board game (Dutch edition)

ODIN: A grand Viking adventure with many possibilities.

Go on an adventure in the world of the Vikings and get to work as a trader, hunter or raider. Build houses, discover distant lands and contribute every round to the feast in honour of Odin. In this grand strategy game Uwe Rosenberg takes you to a bygone era. A variety of action options and equipment cards for your Norsemen guarantee a unique game, in which you try to optimise the possibilities on your player board anew each time!

"Odin" is a saga in the form of a board game. You relive the cultural achievements, the trading expeditions and the raids of the tribes we now know as "Vikings". This term was used very differently around the end of the first millennium. When the northerners went on a raid they said they were going "viking". The Scandinavian ancestors were, however, much more than ordinary pirates. They were explorers, traders and founders of states. Leif Eriksson was probably the first European in America, long before Columbus. In the region now called Normandy the invaders were not called Vikings but "Normans". One of them was the famous William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. He achieved what the king of Norway had failed to achieve a few years earlier: conquering the English throne.

The fact that the people of that time became good seafarers had to do with the fact that it was hard to live from farming alone. Large crop shortages caused much suffering. In this game you can raid and discover new areas. You also experience what everyday life was like by collecting goods that give you a strong position in society. In the end the game is won by the player whose possessions are worth the most.