Renegade Game Studios Raiders of The North Sea,Renegade Game Studios Raiders of the North Sea, Ages 12+, 2-4 players, 60 - 80 minutes, Worker placement, Spiel Des Jahres Kennerspiel 2017 Nominee

Best board game out there in my opinion! Wonderful replay ability and my wife and I have had many hours of enjoyment from this game. Works great with expansions and would recommend anyone to play. Great balance in strategy and a lot of fun!

Quick and easy to learn game that uses a popular mechanic in modern board games, worker placement. The basic concept is that each player has workers that on their turn they will place on the board in available locations that then either let the player perform some sort of action or gain some sort of reward. Raiders does this in a very simple and slightly different way than most other games. Each player only has ONE worker. On your turn you will choose to either Work by placing your worker on a valid, available space and performing the action or collecting the appropriate resources and then selecting a different worker on the board and performing the actions or collections for that space or Raid, if you have the proper resources, by placing your worker on one of the available raid spots on the board and carrying out the raid action there and gaining the associated worker, victory points and plunder.The easy thing to remember is that you will always start and end your turn with one worker. There are a few more nuances to the game than that, but this is a really quick game to learn and teach and loads of fun with lots of take that moments in attempts to foil your opponents.

Who does not love a Viking theme:) The artwork is beautiful. The components are of a good quality. I like the metal coins! Packed out on the table it looks inviting! It is easy to setup and to learn. And its a wonderful game to play because its so immersive. Its enjoyable from start to finish and every time you play it. Every game I played was nail biting and every time I brought it to the table the crowd loved it. Works well as as a 2 and as a 4 player game. Don't hesitate, go get a copy and start raiding the North Sea!

I showed my wife a video review for this game and I took her, "That looks pretty cool." to mean, "You should totally get on Amazon and buy that game right now!"So I did.It turns out this worker-placement game focused on raiding a neighboring countryside and making offerings to your chieftain is the perfect blend of strategy and luck for us. The rulebook is clearly laid out and nicely illustrated, the components (especially the silver coins) are high quality, and the artwork on the cards is wonderful. I can't recommend this one enough if you like medium-light worker-placement games.

This is a cool, well-designed game with quality components and a fun Viking theme. The strategy elements are well thought out, and it plays smoothly once you get the hang of it. Everything from the artwork to the tokens feels high quality, and it’s clear a lot of care went into the design.That said, it’s not something we reach for often. It’s a good game, just doesn’t make it into our regular game night lineup. Still, definitely worth trying if you enjoy resource management and worker placement-style games.

Recommend this for all ages… moderate strategy (but not necessarily needed to be a competitive force) resource management, worker placement (with a unique/enjoyable worker removal actions aswell) … a bit of luck when hiring your crew and a roll of the dice … enough strategy to keep me interested in playing it again.., I included a pic of part of our collection

I really enjoyed this game, didn’t feel too long and everyone learned the rules quickly. Glad they have this version to opt out of the metal coins as I was more interested in adding a fun new game to the collection than spending on fancy pieces. I especially enjoyed the progression through the game as you pick up and leave the meeples during raids, it added a dynamic I haven’t seen in a game before and wasn’t expecting to enjoy so much.

I am a very experienced 75 year old board gamer. My go to game is "Advanced Squad Leader", but I felt my friends and I needed a change of pace.I found "Raiders of the North Sea" on a YouTube video and it looked like fun. It was! We were up and running for our first game and finished in about 75 minutes, with minimal rereading of the rules. A second game was in order.This was our first experience with "worker" games, and it won't be our last.