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Post by lkmjbc on Aug 31, 2017 19:10:42 GMT
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hdan
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Post by hdan on Aug 31, 2017 20:44:59 GMT
Perhaps they should be Warband now?  |
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Post by Haardrada on Aug 31, 2017 21:16:31 GMT
This isn't new information..W.R.G. included most of this info back in the Viking 6th Edition lists,also hinting Vikings fought in a less dense formation.😊 |
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Post by lkmjbc on Sept 1, 2017 1:25:20 GMT
This isn't new information..W.R.G. included most of this info back in the Viking 6th Edition lists,also hinting Vikings fought in a less dense formation.😊 No. Phil convinced them to give up their crazy ways and fight like Romans in 2nd Edition. Joe Collins |
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Post by lkmjbc on Sept 1, 2017 1:25:51 GMT
This isn't new information..W.R.G. included most of this info back in the Viking 6th Edition lists,also hinting Vikings fought in a less dense formation.😊 No. Phil convinced them to give up their crazy ways and fight like Romans in 2nd Edition. Joe Collins |
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Post by lkmjbc on Sept 1, 2017 1:26:55 GMT
Crud...stupid double post ruined the joke....
Joe Collins
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Post by macbeth on Sept 1, 2017 6:40:16 GMT
Yes,
proto Vikings (1977AD - 1982AD) fought in close formation but primarily with light spears, although the elite would fight with axes. There was some evidence that in certain circumstances they could fight in a looser formation if required. A small number of proto Vikings could fight as cavalry.
Classical Vikings (1981AD - 1990AD) dispensed with their close formation shield walls and fought in looser formation - dispensing with cavalry but allowing for much of the army to travel around the battlefield on horseback.
Neo Classical Vikings (1990AD - 1995AD) retained their loose formation and with the exception of their elite forces still fought as wild and crazy individual warriors. Horses were completely dispensed with.
But by the Decadent Viking period (1995 - present day) the Viking Warrior dispensed with his individualistic ways, with almost the entire army bunching up together and fighting with axes and swords. Behavioural Anthropologists believe that this was due to the "Berserker Recognition Movement" where in the dry soulless combat environment of the Neoclassical period (where morale counted for nothing) the Berserkers were insufficiently recognisable beside the Bondi. The Bondi were forced to become much more effective so as to ensure that the Berserkers could be identified on the battlefield.
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Post by macbeth on Sept 12, 2017 23:14:28 GMT
Recently discovered documents from the Classical Viking period have shown that part of the reason for changing to the looser formation was so that competently generalled Viking armies could be defeated by much smaller (one seventh the points value) Pictish armies. This was considered a point of honour by the Classical Vikings who were tired of being considered a "favourite" of the wargaming crowd and did everything in their power to be less attractive.
In the later Classical period Viking Berserkers refused to use two sidearms effectively when fighting in a wedge on the grounds that they were too effective and remained an attractive option.
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