Vikings is a fast economic game despite the nominal quotvikingquot theme no actual exploration or pillage is involvedr r the resources in the game consist of coins and several types of ship tiles island tiles and meeples in each of 6 rounds a random set of 12 tiles and 12 meeples becomes available players take turns buying and placing pairs of meeples and tiles there is no direct player interaction only indirect contention for resources during the buying phaser r the most unusu