The year is 793, and the Northumbrian coast burns. The attack on Lindisfarne was but the first strike — more raiders will follow. As the rulers of Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria, and East Anglia, you must prepare your kingdom for the coming storm. Fortify your defenses and expand your kingdoms with new cities — but take care as the more you expand, the more you attract Vikings to your kingdom. Will you emerge as the strongest realm, ready to stand against the Viking onslaught, or will your lands fall to fire and steel? The fate of Anglo-Saxon England rests in your hands.

Norsewind is a tableau-building game. Each turn, you pick a card and add it to your growing kingdom, that is, your tableau. Place it cleverly to earn rewards. Gather helpful followers and upgrade your castles because the Vikings are coming, and they are not here to make friends! At the end of the game, you score each row in your tableau but only if your defense is stronger than the power of the Viking attack.

Prepare the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for an approaching Viking invasion in Norsewind, a strategic tableau building game set after the raid on Lindisfarne in 793. Develop Wessex, Mercia, Northumbria or East Anglia while ensuring your expanding realm can survive the coming attack.

Choose a card each turn and place it into your growing kingdom to gain resources, recruit helpful followers and create scoring combinations. Buildings such as houses, churches, inns, ships and blacksmiths can strengthen individual rows and support different development strategies.

Expansion brings opportunity but also attracts more powerful Viking forces. Upgrade your castles and generate enough defence to protect each row, because areas that cannot withstand their assigned Viking attack will not score at the end of the game.

• Cards form a personal kingdom: Draft and arrange cards within rows to build an interconnected Anglo-Saxon realm
• Expansion increases the danger: Developing a larger kingdom can attract stronger Viking attacks that require additional preparation
• Castles provide essential defence: Upgrade fortifications and generate shields to protect completed rows from Viking power
• Followers support development: Recruit useful characters that provide resources, placement benefits and strategic abilities
• Rows must survive to score: A row only contributes its victory points when its defence exceeds the strength of its Viking attack
• Dedicated solo play included: Develop and defend a kingdom against the game’s solo system when playing alone

Includes:

• Kingdom Cards
• Castle Cards
• Viking Cards
• Follower Cards
• Player Boards
• Upgrade Discs
• Resource Tokens
• Defence and Scoring Markers
• Solo Components
• Rulebook

Specifications:

• Manufacturer: Aporta Games
• Category: Card Game
• Subcategory: Tableau Building and Open Drafting Game
• Players: 1-4
• Age: 10+
• Play Time: 45-60 Minutes