The new troll activates, gaining its resources, and any trolls beneath it ALSO activate, gaining any resources that they have room to carry. When a new troll is hired, place it above two other trolls, forming a "pyramid". You begin with a line of four trolls, and every troll shows the combination of resources - gold, stone, iron, marble, carts, runes, and hammers - that it produces. Statues are key to scoring, and you'll spend carts to move them through the tunnels to prime scoring locations near the heart of the mountain.Ī major aspect of the game is the cascading production. You want to extend your tunnels to connect with buried gold and materials, with workshop locations that can transform resources, and especially with toppled statues.
Working on the same game board with the other players (but beginning at your own entrance), you'll dig a competing network of tunnels by spending increasingly valuable materials to lay polyomino tiles onto the map. Timing and tactics are key as you work to restore your home to its former glory and win the crown! Gameplay is driven by the innovative cascading production system. With muscle and magic, you'll unearth riches, dig out collapsed tunnels, and carve out great halls as you raise the toppled statues of your ancestors to their places of honor at the heart of the mountain. Play as trolls rebuilding your abandoned kingdom under the mountain in In the Hall of the Mountain King. The surging cascade of trolls returning home will grow ever mightier as our kingdom is rebuilt, rising and crashing forward until one leader rises above the rest to be crowned the Mountain King! Unearth the statues of the ancients, and with the help of the clans return them to places of glory near the mountain's heart. Carve out spacious galleries as great halls. Dig tunnels clad in stone, iron and heartstone. By claw and by hammer and by sweat and by spell we will return to our home and our home will return to us.Īs a respected leader, gather a following of trolls from the Mud, Fire, Ice, and Moon clans. The surviving Gnomes have fled, and the rubble of our ancient halls calls out for we trolls to come home. Without the soul of our people to sustain it, the mountain has collapsed, taking our revenge for us. Our hated Gnome rivals drove us from our ancestral home beneath the mountain, and we have been wandering the wilderness, scratching out survival in the cold and the dirt.īut now something has happened we feel it in our bones.