Yggdrasil - Vassal Module HowTo

How to setup a game:

1. First choose a side by either going up to File and choosing New Game, or if someone has already created a game, synchronize with them
2. When prompted choose the appropriate side ( choose solo to be able to use all Player Boards )
3. All Player Boards are visible, but you may only interact with your own items
4. Choose your God(s) by going to the Pieces Button and go to the Gods Tab. Then draw one of the gods to your hand by dragging and dropping onto your player board. If you are playing solo, repeat this action for each hand you will be playing
5. You will then need to setup the number of Elves equal to the number of Gods being used plus one. Take them from the Pieces button, and drag them onto the main board. Then drag them to the Elf Stack in Alfheim, or right click and Send to Alfheim. NOTE: One Elf starts in Alfheim
6. Shuffle the Frost Giant deck by right clicking on it and hitting Shuffle
7. You will then need to setup the 42 card enemy deck according to your desired difficulty by clicking the setup button to be taken to the setup board
8. The decks are divided up by difficulty along the top
9. Now Shuffle the normal deck, by right clicking on the normal deck and hitting Shuffle
10. If you want the easiest game: You have already done all the work! Right click the normal deck again and choose send to main board. You are done with setup, skip down to HOW TO PLAY THE GAME.
11. If you want a difficult game: Add Angry Enemy cards by dragging one or more off the angry pile into a middle area where you can see which god it is. You will then need to remove a corresponding normal enemy god from the Normal deck by right clicking and choosing "Draw Specific Card". Choose the appropriate god, which will place it on top. You will then need to drag it off the normal pile to the rubbish deck as it will not be used this game. Then drag the corresponding Angry Enemy Card to one of the work decks, ensuring there is only one Special Card per Work Deck. Example: You want to play with Angry Hel. Drag her Angry card to a work pile. Now Right Click on the Normal Deck and choose "Draw Specific Card" and choose Hel_Normal. Drag it off the Normal Deck and into the Rubbish Deck.
12. If you want an even more difficult game: Drag a number of Ragnarok-4, which are 4 different Enemy movements on one card, or the Ragnarok-6, which is all six Enemies move, to work decks ensuring that each work deck contains only one special card. Do not remove any enemy cards from the normal deck.
13. If you want the hardest game: Combine difficult and even more difficult options above as desired.
14. If you want an insane game: Remove cards as per instructions above, but put all Special cards along with the approriate number of normal cards into a single work deck. Shuffle the work deck and then righ click and choose "Send to Main Board". NOTE: This could will lead to a game where you could draw 10 specials in a row! After doing this skip down to HOW TO PLAY THE GAME.
15. Now you should have a bunch of work decks with one special in each. You will need to divide the number of remaining Normal Deck cards by the number of work decks you have. You will then need to Right Click on the Normal Deck and choose "Draw Multiple cards" and input the number you got via the above division. Drag each to set to a different work deck. For the left overs keep adding one to different works deck until all normal cards have been used. These extra cards can be used to pad earlier/later parts of the deck as desired.
16. The work decks are now all built. You will now need to shuffle each, and then right click and choose "Send to Main Board". If order is important it stacks them using FILO ( EG First deck sent to main board, Last Out deck out ).
17. You can now close this board and not look at it again unless you want to play another game, which require resorting the cards from the discard stack. Better yet just start a new game.

How to play a game:

Activating Each Enemy Cards:

• Fenrir: Spend an action to Roll the dice by right clicking on the dice and hitting Roll.
• Surt: Roll the dice and take a number of Fire Giants corresponding to the number of Lighting bolts in the section of Asgard Surt is now occupying into the rolled bag. You can either drag and drop or right click on the Muspelheim stack, and chose to Send 1 Fire Giant to the appropriate bag. Repeat as necessary
• Hel: Roll the dice and take a number of Vikings corresponding to the number of Lighting bolts in the section of Asgard Hel is now occupying from the appropriate bag. Use the option on the bag to draw specific. If multiple Vikings need to be removed, hold shift while selecting the appropriate number of Vikings. Now draw the stack off and either send to Helheim or if playing with the expansion rules choose the option to remove from the game
• Nidhogg: Move the furthest behind Enemy up a step, by right clicking on them and choosing Move Foward
• Jormungand: Return the Valkyrie to the Bifrost, by right clicking on the Valkyrie and choosing "Return to Bifrost", then roll the dice and right click on the the sunken token and choose the appropriate Move to option for the corresponding island.
• Loki: Draw a number of Frost Giants from Jotenheim corresponding to the number of Lighting bolts in the section of Asgard Loki is now occupying, making sure to fulfill all powers of the activated Frost Giants.

Activating Frost Giants:

• Enemy+1: Right Click on the appropriate Enemy and choose Flip to change to the +1 side. Upon destruction choose Flip again to return to the original side. NOTE: there is no flip on +1 Frost Giants, you will just have to remember.
• Closed world: Right click on the Closed Realm stack and choose the appropriate Realm close option. To Remove, right click on the Closed Realm token and click remove
• Whirlpool: Right click the sunken island and choose Flip to change to the whirlpool. Upon destruction choose Flip again to return to the original side
• Godly Power Blocking: You will have to remember
• No Dice: Right click on the dice and choose disable. Once the Frost Giant has been destroyed, right click and choose Activate

Actions, including Each Board Area(from left to right, top to bottom):

• Alfheim: Draw the elf into your hand or the work area ( above the bags )
• Vanarheim: Right Click on Vanir and choose either Move Forward or "Activate Vanir"
• Asgard: Look below the column the Enemy is in to determine fight strength and commit Vikings by either putting them in the work area ( above the bags ) or discarding to Helheim. Right click on the dice and hit roll. Upon success right click the appropriate enemy and choose Push Back
• Nidavellir: Right click on the deck and draw the specific weapon you wish. If upgrading you can right click on the current weapon and choose "Return to Nidavellir".
• Midgard: If you wish to move the Valkyrie right click and choose Move Forward, or Move Back and then draw from the bag stack either one at a time or choosing "Draw Multiple cards" then input 3 in the pop-up, and drag them off into the work area. Place any Fire Giants back into the respective bag stack. Draw any Vikings to your hand.
• Jotenheim: Attack Giants on the board by committing vikings to the work area and then rolling the dice. Upon victory either right click on the Frost Giant and choose destroy or drag it manually to the discard. Make sure to pay attention to the log to note any required actions.
• Muspelheim: Draw from the bag stack either one at a time or choosing "Draw Multiple cards" then input 5 in the popup and drag them off into the work area. Place in Vikings back into the bag and return the Fire Giants to Muspelheim either manually or using the right click option.
• Niflheim: Place trade items on the board or the work area. The other player will then draw them into their hands
• Helheim: Right click on the Viking stack and choose the appropriate Send to Bag option.
• Trancing: Right click on your god, and hit trance to enter or leave trance.

Godly Powers:

• Frey:Fulfill extra action normally. When tranced, just use all powers for Vanir up and including the spot Vanir is on
• Freja:Take second action normally. When tranced, give half, rounded up, of all Vikings used in combat to the player controlling Freja
• Frigg:If you draw FireGiants from a bag during the Midgard action, right click on one of them and use the Return to Muspelheim action. When tranced, remove 5 Fire Giants from the bag of the current player's choice using the draw specific option
• Heimdal:Draw 4 instead of 3 when using draw multiple from bags. When tranced, all players, including Heimdal, may use Heimdal's normal power
• Magni:Instead of discarding Vikings after combat, put them in the bag of the player's choice. When tranced, the active player can recieve Elves or Vikings from one other player when attempting combat
• Njord:When drawing Vikings, choose which tokens you wish to draw from the bag instead of using a random draw. When tranced, players may ignore the Valkyrie and choose from any non-submerged island
• Odin:Draw two cards, discarding the one you want to keep while Right Clicking the other and using the "Send to Bottom" action on the other. When tranced, after killing a Frost Giant, you may select which Giant is removed. Shuffle the Frost Giant deck after
• Sif:Can use Nidavellir 3 times for one action. When tranced, all weapons are +1
• Idunn:When drawing an enemy, reduce their power's strength by 1. Fenrir still takes an action to calm, but at power 0 it is automatically successful. When tranced, at the beginning of a turn, roll the die. On white or blue, take an extra action
• Thor:Add one to combat strength. When tranced, reduce combat Strength of all Frost Giants by 1.
• Tyr:Manually roll the Dice Twice and choose which to use. When tranced, don't discared vikings until after the roll is made.
• Vidar:If you use an Elf before rolling, this counts as +2 instead of +1. When tranced, for an action discard an elf and recieve 4 vikings instead of taking one from Alfheim

Misc Notes:

• I have placed a number of text fields to make the game easier, if you prefer not to use them, in order to make the game more difficult, place Closed tokens over them to make them so you can not see the numbers.
• All the before mentioned text fields depend on the cards being in their appropriate piles so if you choose to keep the dead Frost Giants out so you can build the rune pictures, the rune numbers will not work. Likewise if you do not place Vikings on the stack in Helheim it will not track them.
• Hopefully you enjoy playing this module, I have put in quite a bit of time. Thanks for your attention and if you enjoy playing this module, please support all those involved with the creation of this wonderful game by purchasing it through Ludonaute or Z-Man Games.