Renegade Game Studios 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Raiders of The North Sea - Conquest, 26 x 19 inches, Features Art from The Critically Acclaimed Board Game, Raiders of The North Sea, Age 10 & Up

My husband and I played the base game with a couple of friends many times, and we all really loved it. We ended up buying the two expansions and love it even more now. Highly recommend!

Pretty fun, slow, not super competitive. It should be priced more at $20/$25. Pieces are nice quality which is likely the reason for the cost but it isn’t comparable to a lot of other games this price.

Great worker placement game with a unique take, where there is no refresh phase. You are always placing one meeple and taking one and doing the action(s) of both the meeple you placed and picked up. Gameplay is very smooth as a result. The game is fairly simple overall, so it doesnt take long to teach and is fairly beginner friendly.

This game is unique and very fun to play. Will be looking into some expansions soon.

Easy to teach and fun every time I replay it

Pretty great game

A really solid worker-placement game with a really solid ruleset. For the price point, I cant recommend many other games that can do as much as it does. Each turn is taken by first placing your one worker, gaining the effect of the location you placed them (earning provisions/silver/crew/etc) and then finishing your turn by removing a worker on the board, also gaining its effect. You can choose to raid instead at the beginning of your turn if you have the requirements (crew size/provisions/gold), and youll gain VP and resources as a reward. Theres so much more beneath that and competing against the other raiders for the same locations under constraints like that is super fun.

Excellent game for us Northmen!

An excellent worker placement game that was well received by a non-gamer audience. Easy to teach and one of the new players said it reminded him of a video game.

Whether a game is easy or difficult to learn is relative to how much game boarding you do. I would say this was medium difficult to learn—about the equivalent of learning Wingspan, maybe slightly more complex. And similar set up time for the game. For new players, it was quite slow moving at the beginning, and lots of confusion—even after we all watched a Youtube video explaining it. A few players were ready to abandon it after 45 minutes or so. But the game did speed up, and as players caught on, it became more interesting. I’m sure subsequent plays would move much faster. There were a lot of actions/potential actions on the cards that never came into play for any players, and it was hard for me to see that they would ever be significant, even for experienced players. So I would say the game seems unbalanced. The game might be improved by streamlining the options. The version I played had really nice quality coins/meeples/objects, but I think it might have been a Kickstarter version. One really bad decision the game designers made was to make the “workers” black, gray, and white, with the “black workers” doing most of the menial tasks, and the “white workers” necessary for doing the high level raiding. Too many times in the game players uttered things like “I can’t do that, I only have a black worker,” or “I really need a white worker.” Really, they couldn’t have anticipated this and made the workers magenta, teal and orange, or some other color scheme?