Valda: Rise of the Giants is an expansion to Valda. Like the base game, it is a power-building strategy game where, as a Viking chieftain, you use divine powers, manage a village and resources, play powerful spells and build temples. You gather followers, fight enemies and climb the steps to godhood. This expansion gives you the chance to discover the power of the Giants. 15 new cards for the base deck and 68 new Giant cards that give you all-new powers with all-new graphics. A powerful new resource, 7 Giant powers, double-sided action tokens and 5 new player boards complete this expansion.
All was calm and quiet in Asgard. The Gods continued to be worshipped and lived their easy immortal lives. Until Hel, Queen of the Underworld, wanted to expand her empire. She seduces Surtur to form a powerful alliance. Thirsty for destruction, Surtur calls his brothers to reclaim their territory. After decades in hiding, the Giants rise again. The war is among us. In Valda: Rise of the Giants, you now have the choice between Gods and Giants and their powers to use to your advantage. Each player now completes 4 phases during their turn. The player begins with the Valda phase, where he must search and explore the newly formed world by drawing and playing cards and actions. Building temples in the different domains of Gods or Giants is an important way to gain divine abilities, and access to more powerful spells. The attack phase is played like in the basic game. Thus, each player can attack once on his turn. In the adept phase, you worship a God or Giant by building a temple in the specific domain of the God or Giant. Resources (divine blood, gold, diamonds, runes), cards or eyes (dice) can be transferred to the followers. In the last phase, you roll dice to collect rare resources for your tribe. The Viking Chieftain with the most followers when the ship arrives in Asgard is worthy enough to climb the Yggdrasil world tree and become a god! Oh... and he/she also wins the game.
Valda: Ragnarok funded on the Kickstarter platform
Valda: Ragnarok was funded on the Crowdfunding Kickstarter (See the campaign) platform on the Jan 14, 2021, the campaign lasted 30 days. 758 people helped funded the game, whose the amount requested was €20,000.00. Thanks to these 758 people the game could be funded up to €66,525.00, ~332.62%.
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Download the rule for Valda: Rise of the Giants or any other documents (scenarios, goodies, pedagogical sheet, erratum, ...). 2 PDF files are available. See all available files
Contents of the box : 1 rulebook, 7 territory tiles, 5 personal boards, 35 Giant Temple tiles, 83 cards, 7 Gods vs. Giants cards, 12 runes, 7 action/building tokens, 10 cubes of 5 colours (2 per player).
