Warbands Historical - Vikings list (wip)

Started by Bloodaxe, 24 April 2015, 07:21:22 PM

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FierceKitty

Quote from: Chieftain on 25 April 2015, 09:54:21 AM
Fastasy 'Vikings'?

Fjord Men

Commander unit (1)
Jarl
Magic user unit (0-1)
Rune-sage
Core units (200pts+)
Archers
Scouts
Warriors
Optional units (0-200pts)
Battle skalds
Berserkers
Fjord elves
Mountain dwarves
Mountain giants
Stone elementals
Wereravens
Werewolves
Ygdrasi tree folk
Ymiri primordials

:-\

Grendel
Undead Norwegian Blue parrots
Spam monsters
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Quote from: Leman on 25 April 2015, 09:50:10 AM
Crossing over? Is this why Vikings wore eye make-up and braided their hair?

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Grendel = Mountain giants

Undead Norwegian Blue parrots = Battle skalds

Spam monsters = Ymiri primordials

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I wish to complain about this Viking you sold me ..... what's wrong with it? .... I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad! .... it is no more! .... it has gone to Valhalla! .... it is off to ride with the Valkyries! .... Standing up? STANDING UP!!! .... of course it's standing up you've glued it to this base! ..... No, it is NOT tired! .... no it's not "leaning" against it's mate because it was "up late last night rapin' an' pillagin'"!!! .... moved? It only moved because you rolled for extra CP ... it is no more .... it is an ex-Viking ... IT'S DEAD!!!
 
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Quote from: FierceKitty on 25 April 2015, 11:14:40 AM
Grendel's a troll, actually.

Really?  The sources seem to refer to him either as a 'giant', or simply as a 'monster'.

He's also from the Anglo-Saxon tradition, rather than Viking/Scandanavian tradition.
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QuoteFjord Men

Commander unit (1)
Jarl
Magic user unit (0-1)
Rune-sage
Core units (200pts+)
Archers
Scouts
Warriors
Optional units (0-200pts)
Battle skalds
Berserkers
Fjord elves
Mountain dwarves
Mountain giants
Stone elementals
Wereravens
Werewolves
Ygdrasi tree folk
Ymiri primordials

I would enjoy painting and playing with that army, especially as I have a whole bag of pendraken Vikings to start on.
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FierceKitty

Beowulf goes into his parentage etc. He's humanoid, tough-skinned, and descended from Cain.
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Quote from: FierceKitty on 25 April 2015, 11:44:18 AM
Beowulf goes into his parentage etc. He's humanoid, tough-skinned, and descended from Cain.

That's the later Christian addition to the older traditional story though eh?  The earlier translations are much less clear about the nature of grendle and he way have been a rival 'hero', as much as a 'monster'.  There are interpreations that he may have been a two-legged dragon (perhaps a transitional aspect between the tryptich of enemies in the story - the dragon, Grendel's mother (seemingly fairly normal) and Grendel himself as some sort of 'half-dragon'), a 'vampire-like' creature, etc.

A fascinating character none-the-less and he'd make a great figure for a fantasy army.  :)
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Quite liked the Thirteenth Warrior take on it! :)
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Bloodaxe

If someone else wants to throw together a different historical army list, feel free. Lots out there.

Leman

A Lindisfarne Monks army list seems like a bit of a non-starter - but hold on, what about a fantasy Lindisfarne Monks list - St.Michael and a host of warrior Angels, Jesus as a hero turning blood into wine and flesh into bread. Might be a bit all-conquering really- 0h well, back to the drawing board.
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Luddite

Warrior monks though...oooh...interesting.

Joe Dever's Magnamund armies spring to mind.  The Kai Lords, Summerlund, the Giaks, etc.  GW/Citadel used to do the models for this, and as i understnd a new RPG is soon to be released.
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