Vikings Gone Wild

Never tried the game before and yet the instructions are many but after few turns i got into it.The delivery was punctual and without any issues.

Brilliant game. Now looking for the expansions...

A deckbuilding game with a focus on attacking opponents.As with most deckbuilding games you start off with 10 starter cards and you shuffle and draw 5 cards for your turn. Use them to build fixed choice buildings which mostly produce goods, fixed choice fighter cards, fixed choice defence cards or randomised choice of 5 miscellaneous cards from a middle deck where a new card comes out each time a card is purchased.The main way to get victory points is completing mission cards (missions such as buy an attack card, own X of this type of building) and attacking other players. If you send an attacker to an opponents building and that opponent happens to have a defence card hidden in their hand they can make their building stronger and get points for defending. The nice part is that attacks do very little to damage opponents, at most you can take one resource from a storage building if the opponent has storage buildings and also has resources stored there. This makes it quite positive friendly type of competitive play where you don't feel bad when someone is launching an attack against you.Overall it is a good fun game, but small negatives for me were:- The board is very big and then you need space for each player's mat. We play in a board game social group in a pub and it's a really tight squeeze on that pub table.- There isn't much variety in the middle deck. If I compare to Clank in Space, I would say Clank has much better value for money where you have 4 times as many cards with much more variety also, and in a Clank game you get through less than half the deck making games more replayable. In Vikings you pretty much get through the whole deck in one game and quite a lot of repetition in the cards. For people who backed on Kickstarter they have twice as many cards and it feels the company shot themselves a bit in the foot by giving so much exclusive content to Kickstarter and leaving their commercial product rather starved of content.- I've never heard of the game Vikings Gone Wild, I'm guessing it is a Clash of Clans clone. I don't see the advantage of using the intellectual property of a mobile game - and a chicken shooting defence tower feels a bit stupid to me. But just a very minor niggle, doesn't make much difference to the game.- The expansions change the game up but don't expand it. A bit like Kingdom Builder expansions which keep to the same base mechanics but different maps. I purchased the Guild Wars expansion and the new buildings are there to replace existing buildings and so the game is a bit different but the same strategic/complexity level as before. Also there were hardly any new middle cards in the expansion.Overall, if you like deckbuilders like Dominion and want more deckbuilding fun I would recommend  Clank in Space Game  as better value. But despite the niggles I don't regret purchasing this game, it is still good fun - but I am not sure it will get played that many times. There is an expansion called Elements coming out in the future, and I hope that will add something special to the game. However, Elements seems to have gone through Kickstarter already so my concerns are that we will end up with a weak diluted version if they made half the content as Kickstarter exclusive again. Clank in Space Game

Looks ok, not used yet as its a gift