Ragnarok: Heavy Metal Combat in the Viking Age
BGG rank
BGG #24,796
BGG rating
6.4

Ragnarok: Heavy Metal Combat in the Viking Age

2019

Rules assistance for Ragnarok: Heavy Metal Combat in the Viking Age

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 45–90 min
  • 14+
  • Complexity 2.0/5

Rules assistant for Ragnarok: Heavy Metal Combat in the Viking Age

For 2 players

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Ragnarok: Heavy Metal Combat in the Viking Age is a board game released in 2019 for 2 players, 45–90 minutes per game, and ages 14 and up. It was designed by Tim Korklewski and its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers, Dice Rolling, and Simulation.

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About the game

The end of the Aesir has come, but not as the prophecies foretold. The dread dragon Niddhoggr has devoured the roots of the World Ash, Yggdrasil, and the great tree has toppled onto its side, crashing the realms of mortal and supernatural together. With the gods dead and the fires of ruin consuming the world, your war clan of Viking warriors know what they must do to survive the destruction of the Nine Realms and restore order: they must become the new gods! Ragnarok is a campaign-driven skirmish game in which players form a Viking war clan seeking to prove itself worthy of becoming the new pantheon. The use of a mechanic called Godspark means that battles are no longer determined by merely striking an opponent and dealing damage. Instead, warriors will be pushing, throwing, and crashing their opponents around the battlefield, making their very environment a weapon. As the war clans develop, they may gain glorious new powers that will bring them closer to godhood, or win the respect of the denizens of the realms, allowing them to bring dire wolves, dwarves, and even the dreaded giants into their war clans. With strategic gameplay and epic storytelling, players must write their own sagas and tell of how their war clans have, through blood and steel, clawed their way up from ruin to stand before the halls of Valhalla.

Questions and answers

Ragnarok: Heavy Metal Combat in the Viking Age supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.