Valhalla: Warriors of Asgard
Valhalla: Warriors of Asgard Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Contents of the Expansion
- 30 warrior cards (20 of them are Warriors of Asgard).
- 10 Heimdall cards.
- A double-sided Heimdall help card.
All cards in this expansion are marked with the Warriors of Asgard emblem in the upper right corner.
Setup
Shuffle the 30 warrior cards of this expansion into the base deck at the start of setup step 1.
Shuffle the 10 Heimdall cards, take 1 at random and place it face up on the table. Place the Heimdall help card next to it. Shuffle the remaining 9 Heimdall cards into the base deck.
Rule Changes
The game process changes only in phase Б. The player draws 3 cards from the deck instead of 2 and keeps 1 of them. The rest are discarded.
Battles
The rules for battles receive some changes.
After the winner of a battle is determined, the losing participant takes the bottom card from the base deck. After looking at it, they return it under or on the deck, and then place the Heimdall help card in front of themselves.
After this, each participant gets the chance to play a Heimdall card and acquire its help card. The player who lost the battle decides first whether they want to play a new Heimdall card. If they play a card, they place it face up on top of the current Heimdall card and keep its help card until the end of the next battle. No one else plays a Heimdall card in this battle. If the player who lost the battle does not play a card, the next participant clockwise may do so, to receive the Heimdall help card, and so on.
The Heimdall help card gives its owner a bonus in the next battle if they take part in it. Some bonuses act before the battle, and the player may use them while the Heimdall help card lies in front of them.
Symbols on Heimdall Cards
A player holding a Heimdall help card receives the bonus of the current Heimdall card. It acts until the Heimdall help card changes owner.
Each time a player draws cards from the deck (both in phase А and in phase Б), they draw 1 more card and keep 1 more card.
A player's squad may have 1 more warrior. If the player loses the Heimdall help card, they are not obliged to discard this warrior.
In battle, the player rolls 1 additional die and adds it to their rolled dice.
In battle, the player may turn 1 of their weapon dice to any face up.
In his turn, the player may, instead of phase Б, perform phase А one more time.
When adding warriors to the squad in phase А, the player may add up to 3 warriors if the sum of the weapon symbols on their cards does not exceed 6.
Activating a Warrior of Asgard, the player may choose which weapon symbol the ability of this warrior will act on. In that case it stops acting on the symbol shown on the card. Otherwise its effect does not change.
In his turn, after phase Б, the player may send 1 warrior from hand to Valhalla. This can be done only with a warrior that has 1 valor point.
The player increases their combat strength in battle by as much as the number of warriors in their squad. All warriors count, whether they are activated or not.
The player increases their combat strength in battle depending on the number of warriors in the opponent's squad. All warriors count, whether they are activated or not.
Symbols on Warrior Cards
Activating a warrior with such an ability, the player may cover 1 specified weapon symbol on one other warrior in the squad with any weapon symbol (except the ⊗ symbol). For example, activating a warrior with the symbol shown in the picture above, the player may cover 1 weapon symbol on another warrior in their squad with any weapon symbol (except ⊗).
Activating a warrior with such an ability, the player may cover the specified weapon symbol on all other warriors in the squad with the ⊗ symbol. For example, activating a warrior with the symbol shown in the picture above, the player may cover the specified weapon symbol on other warriors in their squad with ⊗ symbols.
Activating a warrior with such an ability, the player may cover the specified weapon symbol on other warriors in the squad with any weapon symbols (except ⊗). For example, activating a warrior with the symbol shown in the picture above, the player may cover the specified symbol on other warriors in their squad with any weapon symbols (except ⊗).
Activating a warrior with such an ability, the player considers the specified weapon symbol to be covered on all other warriors in their squad. This may reduce the number of weapons needed to activate warriors, and even activate warriors without dice. For example, if the player activated a warrior with the symbol shown in the picture above, all compass symbols are considered covered on all other warriors in their squad.
Translator's notes: the source sheet shows phase names only as the red letter markers А and Б, and the icons as pictures. Those are rendered here as "phase А" and "phase Б" and described in words. The sheet prints no separate heading between the Heimdall-symbol entries and the Warrior-of-Asgard entries, so the entries of the Heimdall section are transcribed in the order they are printed, including the entries that sit below its heading. Icon-only symbols (weapon symbols, the ⊗ mark, the compass mark) are described from the surrounding text and the pictures on the sheet.