Blood Rage

There's a recent second edition on the market.

Ankh is the third game in a trilogy consisting of Blood Rage, Rising Sun, as those are the two that came before.

Ankh was an incredible convention experience.

We played it with five players, Doug.

Well, you'd really like it.

And different people over the last few years, and they were right.

Yeah, that was an interesting one for me because I love Blood Rage, and then I had Rising Sun, which a lot of people seem to enjoy more than Blood Rage, and that was one where I felt like I read the rules about 20 times and never could get into it and just was like, ah.

And so it just kind of turned me off and not even looking at Ankh.

That is Star Wars Rebellion at number five.

At number four, we have Blood Rage, and two panelists picked Blood Rage.

The first says, I really like how Blood Rage encourages players to go after each other, but still keeps the conflict fun rather than frustrating.

I also love that with the right cards and strategy, you can actually play to lose fights instead of always trying to win them.

The combat cards add a lot of bluffing and reading your opponents, which makes every fight feel tense.

Conflict is such a big part of the game rather than something that only happens occasionally, and the card drafting is awesome too.

The second person who picked Blood Rage says, my selection, which I get to briefly highlight in this battle, is the combat, they're referring to the Battle Royale, is the combat system in Eric Lang's Blood Rage.

The combat system in Blood Rage is the central mechanism for success and is highly dependent on players' awareness, preparation, and timing.

And I'm gonna open...

So this review is for Blood Rage: Valhalla, and I'm gonna open it by asking Barry, have you played Blood Rage? Do you like it?

I, I've played Blood Rage, and, uh, as part of the crowdfunding which delivered Blood Rage: Valhalla, uh, the, the friend in our group that has it picked up all the bits that he missed from the first time round but did not choose to back Valhalla.

Uh, not because it looked...

Well, in part because of how it looked, right? Fighting in a, a room rather than [laughs] on a-

... we'll get to that.

Uh, for that one.

Um, but he did p- picked it up, and we enjoy Blood Rage enough that it made sense to get these other bits to throw in occasionally.

Again with expandalone news, The Danes is gonna be hitting crowdfunding soon.

This actually has a similar trajectory to what happened with Blood Rage: Valhalla.

So in the context of Blood Rage, Eric Lang talked about the expansion that he had in mind for Blood Rage, but then it morphed into an, into a new standalone game called Blood Rage: Valhalla.

Similarly, The Danes was originally supposed to be the second big expansion to Feast for Odin after the Norwegians, but it kept growing and growing and growing, and now it's its own standalone thing.

I am very, very enthusiastic about The Danes.

That's a-

... new Blood Rage versions.

Yeah, it's, it's g- it, it was 4.3 or something last night.

It was 4.1 earlier this week.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I got to play Blood Rage: Valhalla.

So again, some controversies around this.

Back to me for my number 19.

My number 19, designed by Mr. Eric M. Lang, published by CMON, the only game I've actually painted completely, and that is Blood Rage.

Um, just good fun, mean.

Um, and if you play with people that know how to play it, you know, it's quite good.

Yeah.

[chuckles] That damn Loki strategy.

Other than that, Blood Rage.

Very good.