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Raiders of the North Sea Score Calculator

Add up your raids, the Valkyrie and Armoury tracks, offerings, plunder, and crew bonuses — six buckets, totaled for you. Free, for up to 4 players.

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How Raiders of the North Sea Scoring Works

Raiders scores in two passes. Raid points and crew bonuses land on the Victory Point Track the moment you earn them, so most of the game you already know roughly where you stand. Then the game ends — one final round after a Fortress, Offering, or Valkyrie trigger — and four more buckets get added on top. Here's each one, and where the quiet points hide.

1Raid Victory Points

Every settlement except the Harbours offers two or three levels of Victory Points, each tied to a Military Strength threshold. Roll the dice the settlement calls for, add your crew's strength, any crew actions that apply to that settlement, and your armour — if the total clears a threshold, you take the points printed beside it. Clear the higher threshold and you take the larger number instead. Miss the lowest one and you score nothing for strength on that raid. These points hit the Victory Point Track the moment you score them, so this row is a running tally of everything you earned raiding.

2Valkyrie Track

Some raids come with Valkyrie attached. Taking one costs you a hired crew member — you discard one of your own to claim it — and moves your marker one space up the Valkyrie Track. The track pays out only at the end of the game, based on how far up it you finished — the points are printed down the right-hand side of the track. You can take more than seven over a game (still losing crew each time), but only seven count, for a maximum of 15 points. The track is also the first tiebreaker, so its position matters even after the points are counted.

3Offerings

Offerings are gifts to the Chieftain: hand over the plunder and silver an Offering tile demands, and the tile is yours. You keep the tiles face down through the game and reveal them at the end, adding each one's printed value to your total. Emptying the Offering draw pile is one of the three ways the game ends, so a table that leans hard on the Chieftain's Hall will run short.

4Plunder

Whatever plunder you're still holding when the game ends converts to points: each gold is worth 1, each iron is worth 1, and livestock pays 1 point per pair — a single leftover livestock scores nothing on its own. Silver and provisions are spending money, not points, so there's no reason to sit on them. Plunder is genuinely dual-use during play: gold pays for raids and iron buys armour, so every point you bank here is a raid or an upgrade you chose not to make.

5Armoury Track

Armour is bought at the Armoury with iron or silver, and it's the one source of Military Strength that never gets spent — it strengthens every raid you make for the rest of the game. Each purchase moves you up the Armoury Track, which scores at the end exactly the way the Valkyrie Track does: points based on how high your marker sits. Armour earns twice, then, once in every raid it helps you win and again in the final count, and the track is the second tiebreaker.

6Hired Crew Bonuses

Some hired crew grant additional Victory Points when you raid a particular settlement type — those are on top of anything you scored for Military Strength, and you take them even if your strength scored nothing at all. Other crew members are simply worth points at the end of the game, as printed on the card. Check your crew line both during raids and at final scoring; this is the bucket most often left on the table, because the cards are sitting in front of you doing other jobs.

One quirk worth knowing before you total: the Victory Point Track only runs to 50. If your marker laps it, flip your ship card to its 50 VP side and keep going from zero — your real score is 50 plus whatever the track reads. The two expansions, Hall of Heroes and Fields of Fame, each add their own crew, locations, and scoring on top of these six buckets; the calculator above covers the base game.

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Raiders of the North Sea Scoring Questions

How do you score Raiders of the North Sea?
Points come from six places. During play you score for Military Strength when you raid a settlement, plus any bonus points your hired crew grant for raiding that settlement. At the end of the game you add four more buckets: your position on the Valkyrie Track, your position on the Armoury Track, the values on your collected Offering tiles, and leftover plunder (1 point per gold, 1 per iron, 1 per pair of livestock). Highest total wins.
How does raiding score victory points?
Every settlement except the Harbours shows two or three point values, each paired with a Military Strength requirement. When you raid, roll the dice that settlement calls for and add your hired crew's strength, any crew actions that apply there, and your armour. Whichever threshold your total clears determines the points you score, and clearing the higher one replaces the lower value rather than adding to it. If you don't reach the lowest threshold, you score nothing for strength on that raid.
How does the Valkyrie Track score in Raiders of the North Sea?
Each Valkyrie you take during a raid costs you a hired crew member and moves your marker one space up the Valkyrie Track. Nothing scores until the end of the game, when you take the points shown beside your final position. Only the first seven Valkyrie count toward scoring, for a maximum of 15 points, though you can keep taking them (and keep losing crew) beyond that.
What is leftover plunder worth at the end of the game?
Each gold is worth 1 point and each iron is worth 1 point. Livestock is worth 1 point per pair, so a single leftover livestock scores nothing on its own. Silver and provisions never score — they exist to be spent on raids, crew, and offerings.
How do offerings work?
Offerings are made at the Chieftain's Hall by paying the plunder and silver a face-up Offering tile requires. You keep the tile face down and reveal it during end-game scoring, adding its printed value to your total. Offerings are also a game-end trigger: when the Offering draw pile runs out, the end of the game is on.
When does Raiders of the North Sea end?
Any of three conditions triggers the end: only one set of plunder is left in the Fortresses (five of the six Fortress raids are done), the Offering draw pile is empty, or there are no Valkyrie left on the board. The current player finishes their turn, then every player — including that one — takes one final turn before scoring.
Who wins a tie in Raiders of the North Sea?
The tied player furthest up the Valkyrie Track wins. If they are still tied there, the player furthest up the Armoury Track takes it. Both tracks matter beyond the points they pay out, which is worth remembering when a late Valkyrie looks too expensive in crew.
Is there a Raiders of the North Sea score sheet I can use online?
This page is one: a free digital Raiders of the North Sea score sheet with a row for each of the six scoring buckets and the totals done for you. It forgets your game when you leave, though — for a score sheet that keeps every game and every player, Raiders of the North Sea is one of 300+ games in the free Meeply app.