Experience Heavy Metal Combat In Osprey’s Ragnarok
February 13, 2019 by brennon
Osprey Games are going to be working with Tim Korklewski to bring Ragnarok to the tabletop soon. This game features 'Heavy Metal Combat In The Viking Age' which sounds seriously awesome to me.
This game brings together the Historical and the Fantasy genres into a game where your clan of Viking warriors know what they must do in order to restore order to a world which is drowning in blood and battle. They must become the new gods and restore the Nine Realms!
Ragnarok is a campaign focused skirmish game where you'll take control of your Viking warriors who are seeking to gain that aforementioned glory. A new mechanic called Godspark changes combat up and instead of merely just hitting an opponent and dealing damage you'll also be throwing, pushing and smashing your opponents around the battlefield. Effectively, you're turning the very terrain into another weapon to smite your foes.
As this is a campaign game you'll also grow in power between each battle, coming closer to godhood and winning the respect of the peoples of the realms. From there you can draw on the resources of the dire wolves, Dwarves and Giants of the lands.
The idea here is to tell an epic saga of how your Vikings rose from nothing to become mighty gods in their own right...and it sounds awesome. Maybe this is something to use all those Blood Rage miniatures for when you're not playing the board game?
What do you think of the idea?
"The idea here is to tell an epic saga of how your Vikings rose from nothing to become mighty gods in their own right..."
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HEAVY METAL! \m/
Where do I sign u…. wait… I vowed not to start another Sys….
HEAAAAVY MEEETAL \m/
DO IT!!!!
I want to know more about the Heavy Metal side of things! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
I imagine it will go something like this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7O5JjGuprE
I want it more to be like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbgshuBe6M
HEAVY METAL MÖRCH!
Hi Brennon!
This is Tim Korklewski, the author or Ragnarok: Heavy Metal Combat in the Viking Age. I would be happy to answer any questions or give a bit more detail on the game if you would like!
I was thinking more like this….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6CMMunWB50
Or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6CMMunWB50
This sounds epic, I just hope there’s a rule for a Face Melting guitar solo!
Not quite… but there are lots of axe performances!
Any picture’s ? could this be a civilization or oldhamer type of game.
No pictures of games being played or anything no.
Not yet….
Soon…
Intriguing twist of the Norse mythology and I really like the concept of a viking warband with trolls.
My google-fu lead me to a kickstarter for some miniatures linked to the game, so if you want to get an inkling for the sculpts in game, check out:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/404694339/northmen
Bronze Age Miniatures are one of the “Official” miniatures lines for the game. You will find a lot of their models featured in the book along with Footsore (War Banner), Reaper, Bombshell, and a few others!
Soon as I saw the title I thought ‘Bloodrage’ and as I read through I noticed the thought struck the mind of Ben too.
This is the portion I specifically wrote about using Blood Rage minis on my Facebook page Ragnarok Worldwide: Some folks have expressed interest in using the CMON board Game Blood Rage figures for Ragnarok and how many effective War Clans they could make out of the core box. Thanks to my buddy Kim Schrader at CMON, I got my hands on a copy to discuss it! Blood Rage is a 4 player game, so there are 4 models in the box that can easily act as your Jarls. Each “Clan” in the box comes with 8 additional models with two… Read more »
The concept sounds interesting, though not necessarily new or innovative.
But to be honest, I think I’m beginning to suffer from “game burnout”. Every day seems to bring a new game, and I just can’t play them all.
Can’t wait for this personally