“Ragnarök has come! Secure your place in Valhalla in epic Viking battles.”
Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/170216/blood-rage
Playing Time: 60-90 minutes
Weight: Midweight
Genre: Card Drafting & Territorial Control
Designer: Eric M. Lang
Players: 2-4
In Blood Rage, players play as competing viking clans, each fighting to curry favor of the gods and take control of a rapidly decaying Midgard, earning precious victory points before the world is destroyed by the flaming Armageddon that is Ragnarok.
The game basically alternates between a drafting phase and an action phase. In a drafting phase, players start with a hand of 8 cards, choose one and pass to the left, repeating this until they have a hand of six cards (the remainders are discarded). Cards may be battle cards, or unlock more powerful units – or even mighty beasts and monsters to fight on their behalf, or provide strategic conquest objectives for the round.
The end result is a while, chaotic free-for-all with the tight balance we’ve come to expect from Eric Lang and the gorgeous miniatures that CMON is famous for. Many regard this to be Lang’s finest work. I disagree, as we’ll see soon.
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