Who goes first in Fire & Axe: A Viking Saga?
IDW Games / Pandasaurus Games English edition, 2015
Choose a starting player by any method. The rules suggest the fiercest Viking roar, the hairiest beard, the most recent visit to Scandinavia, or drawing one shuffled crew member per player at random.
Rule details
The starting player receives one bonus victory point; proceeding clockwise, each subsequent player receives one more than the previous player.
If there’s a tie
The cited starting-player instruction does not specify a tie-break. We don’t infer one.
Source & edition
- Fire & Axe: A Viking Saga — English rulebookIDW Games and Pandasaurus Games · Setup, step 6 — Starting Player · Checked 2026-09-24
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