A Feast for Odin

SLEEVED[IMG]https://cf.geekdo-static.com/mbs/mb_5855_0.gif[/IMG] EXPANSION: A Feast for Odin: The Norwegians Expansion (2018) MINI EXPANSION: A Feast for Odin: Lofoten, Orkney, and Tierra del Fuego A Feast for Odin: New Special Tiles (2017 Goodie Box)

Can't stop playing. Brilliant balancing. Excellent choice of different strategies. Fun. Best game I have ever played. Thank you, Uwe!

A fantastic creation with top quality components. I appreciate the skill of the designer to craft something so spectacular and with such a broad scope, but for me there's too much in the game.

With four of us it took 4 hours to play 7 rounds, plus an hour for setup and going through the rules. Not the 120 mins it says on the box then.

The worker placement spaces are so numerous and the choices of direction you can take so varied, we hardly ever got in each other's way. There was almost no player interaction for the whole game.

We simply pursued different strategies, in the main initially guided by our first occupation. I mostly went whaling, another player focused on taking items from the Special Board, the third mostly went hunting/snaring while the fourth concentrated on emigration: building and flipping ships to score big points each time. No-one explored islands.

Three of us ended the game with incomes of 18 and fully covered player boards, feeling therefore we'd done reasonably well - but the winner had an income of 2 with a partially covered board and a final score virtually twice that of any of the rest of us.

His initial occupation was one which gave a discount on emigration. So he pretty much ignored putting anything onto the main part of his board and just repeated the cycle of paying 2 wood to build a knarr/longship and then paying 3/6 coins to emigrate and turn it into 18/21 points.

So the three of us at the end of the game could say "Yay, I filled my board and it scored 18 points!". Meanwhile the emigrator lost around 25 points from it but scored nearly 120 from the six emigrated ships - each of which had helped him in-game by reducing the distraction of having to provide for the feast in every round.

The tetris element of fitting differently colored shapes onto your board was mostly tiresome for me. It was error prone while you tried out 3 or 4 pieces in different arrangements (and what-ifs for whether you'd promote this one or that one to blue) - after a while you think did I try out 3 or was it 4 pieces? Should I be taking back 3 or 4 to consider other arrangements? Oops.

A great game, but not one I'd particularly want to play again and I'm glad it wasn't me who parted with £80 for it.

Worker placement combined with Viking Tetris in a field of -1 Victory Points as far as the eye can see.

Own the [boardgame=216788]Norwegians[/boardgame] expansion and the [boardgame=236902]Lofoten, Orkney, and Tierra del Fuego[/boardgame], [boardgame=292592]Mini Expansion #2[/boardgame], and the [boardgame=240522]New Special Tiles[/boardgame] promos.

Streamlined ruleset for game with large decision space. Strategic with a lot of tactical option. Needs Norwegians for balance and perfect score.

Possibly my favorate new (to me) game of 2017. Perhaps even my top game ever. An amazing amount of choice in your actions, dazzling selection of components, and deep gameplay and yet surprisingly easy to pick up.