Champions of Midgard FAQ
141 questions players ask · Updated Nov 7, 2026 · Full rulebook
Setup & Components
- Are the market tiles and first-round cards visible when players pick their Viking Leader?
- How many Military and Economic market tiles are used in a 5-player game?
- Can Champions of Midgard be played with six players?
- How many worker meeples does each player start with, and do expansions change it?
- Are food, wood and coins limited in supply?
- What are the player color markers for?
- Are food, coins, runes and defeated enemy cards public or hidden information?
- What rules changed between first-edition copies and later printings?
- Does the solo mode work with the expansions?
Worker Placement
- Can I place a worker and then decline to use the location by begging instead?
- Is the Beggar tile an extra space, and when should I beg?
- Do I have to place every worker, including one bought this round?
- Can I place a worker on a combat space and then assign no warriors?
- Can one player put several workers on the Hunting Grounds?
- When do I collect resources from brown and blue spaces?
- What happens if I take more warriors than my longhouse (8) can hold, and can I swap out old ones?
- Can I take a warrior space when my longhouse is full, just to block others?
- Can I hold more than 8 Viking Warrior dice?
- What if the supply has no dice of the color I want to take?
- How many trades can I make at the Market space?
- Can I trade at the Market, play the Wealth rune, then trade more in the same turn?
- Can I activate a market stall tile more than once per placement?
- Can a trade space be used in reverse?
- Can I buy several runes at the Runesmith in one action?
- Can I take a random rune from the deck instead of a face-up one?
- How much can I spend at the Stave Church, and is there a limit on Favor?
- Can I build more than one Private Longship?
- Can I build a Private Longship and sail it with the same worker?
- Can I use my Private Longship every round afterwards?
- Can two players share one public longship in a round?
- Can I send several ships in one round?
- What happens when the first player takes the Jarl's Longhouse?
- What happens to the Destiny card I do not keep at the Sage's House?
- In what order do players place workers?
- How much does the Worker Huts space cost?
Assigning Viking Warriors
- Are warrior dice assigned at the same time or in turn order?
- When do I have to decide where my dice go, and can survivors fight a second battle?
- Is there a minimum number of warriors I must send, or can I send fewer than the monster's attack?
- Can more than one player fight the Troll?
- Can food I gather by hunting go onto a longship the same round?
- Which dice go hunting?
- What happens to warriors of a type the enemy forbids?
- If I send a longship with no warriors, is the journey card still revealed?
- When does a public longship move to its distant shore?
- Do hunting dice come back?
Combat Resolution & Journeys
- Do journey card losses come from my ship or from my supply?
- In what order do the journey card, feeding and the monster fight happen?
- How much food does each journey need?
- Are warriors fed once or in every combat round?
- Do I get leftover food back after a journey?
- Can a ship turn back after it sets out?
- What do I get for defeating the Kraken?
- Does a journey card stay in place if nobody sails there?
- Does the die icon on a journey card mean any warrior?
- Can I take a Blame token instead of resolving a journey card?
- Is the maximum of 6 on hunting for dice or food?
- Can I use Favor to reroll when hunting?
- In what order are combats resolved?
- Do I still get the reward if all my warriors die in the round I kill the enemy?
Details of Combat
- How much does a Shield block?
- Can I discard the die that rolled a Shield?
- Do Shields carry over to the next round?
- How does Favor work for rerolls?
- Can I put hits on the enemy and reroll the rest with Favor?
- Do damage tokens stay between combat rounds?
- Do I still take damage from an enemy I kill?
- Does a wounded enemy deal less damage in later rounds?
- Where do dice go when they die?
- What if a reward gives me an extra die but my longhouse is full?
- What do I get for defeating a Troll, and who takes Blame?
- Who takes Blame if the Troll is not defeated?
- How can I get rid of a Blame token?
- What do the fist and shield numbers on enemies mean?
- Who chooses which dice die?
Round Flow & Clean-Up
Leaders & Runes
Final Scoring
Promo Cards
Champions of Midgard: ValhallaExpansion
- When can I spend Sacrifice tokens, and do I need to have gained some this turn?
- Can I turn Sacrifice tokens into Glory or a warrior die without buying a Valhalla card?
- When do I gain a Sacrifice token for a lost Viking?
- Can I deliberately lose dice, or send warriors with no food, to farm Sacrifice tokens?
- Do I get a Sacrifice token for a warrior a monster forbids, if it dies on the ship?
- Do I get Sacrifice tokens when I swap or retrain dice at a market tile?
- When are the Valkyrie Blessing cards refilled?
- How many Valkyrie Blessing cards are there?
- Can a Valkyrie Blessing marked x2 give one of each option?
- Can I use food, dice or coins from a blessing I just bought in the same round?
- Can I own two copies of a permanent blessing, and do they stack?
- Are Epic Monsters refilled after one is defeated?
- How many Epic Monsters are used in a game?
- Do Epic Monsters count as Monsters for Destiny cards?
- Does the Glory rune boost an Epic Monster bought with tokens?
- How does Surtr's end-game ability count red enemies?
- Can I reroll the Leader die with Favor, and when does its ability trigger?
- Can a Leader's ability trigger in every combat round?
- Is the Leader die a Viking Warrior die, and does it count against the limit of 8?
- What happens when my Leader die is lost?
- Does the helmet on the Leader die count as a hit?
- How does Ullr's Berserker Cry work?
- How does Hemming's Rune Carver work?
- If Rune Carver copies the Glory rune, when does it apply?
- Does Hemming trade once per round or per turn?
- Does Dagrun get her extra Destiny card when a helmet sends her to the Sage's Hut?
- Can I spend Favor after using Ragnhild's leader die?
- How does the Enemyslayer Shield work?
- Are Shield results optional with Valhalla?
- Can I visit Valhalla after the Hunting Grounds?
- What does the Gossip space do?
- What does the Trainer tile do?
- Does a die of your choice include Berserkers, archers and Shieldwarriors?
- Can Valhalla be played with five players or without The Dark Mountains?
- Can dice I gain from Valhalla be used for hunting the same round?
- Does the Training rune let me reroll swapped dice?
- With Glyfirs, do I take every reward on the Merchant Ship?
Champions of Midgard: The Dark MountainsExpansion
- Do Shields work against the Mist Walker?
- Must I roll every assigned die each round against the Mist Walker?
- Do undefeated Bergrisar stay on the board, and do they gain gold?
- In what order do the combat spaces resolve with Dark Mountains?
- Can the Sage's House look at a land journey card?
- What happens to an archer sent against a Bergrisar that forbids archers?
- Does the archer's double-hit icon count in normal combat?
- Must dice from a Mercenaries or Lone Warrior journey card fight the upcoming battle, and do I keep them?
- Can I pay any die, including expansion dice, when a card asks for a Viking die?