Viking: Tactical Warfare in the Dark Ages, 700-1300
Score
6.7
Players
2
Time
120
Recommended Age
12+
Difficulty
normal
Official Website
Not provided
Type
game
publishers
designers
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Description
Viking: Tactical Warfare in the Dark Ages, 700-1300
One of five games in a series by SPI called PRESTAGS (the others were CHARIOT, SPARTAN, LEGION and YEOMAN). Tactical level game. Each game shares a set of the same common rules. Each game also has a set of exclusive rules that highlight features of warfare during the period that game covers.
400 counters
Battles Included
- Qadisiya (Persians vs. Arabs, AD 637)
- Tours (Arabs vs. Franks, AD 732)
- Constantinople (Byzantines vs. Varangians, AD 860)
- Paris (Vikings vs. Franks, AD 885)
- Lourain (Franks vs. Vikings, AD 891)
- Hamburg (Vikings vs. Germans, AD 988)
- Balthusta (Byzantines vs. Bulgars, AD 1014)
- Clontarf (Vikings vs. Irish, AD 1014)
- Cannae II (Byzantines vs. Lombards, AD 1017)
- Civitate (Normans vs. Papists, AD 1053)
- Cerami (Normans vs. Arabs, AD 1063)
- Stamford Bridge (Anglo-Saxons vs. Vikings, AD 1066)
- Hastings (Normans vs. Anglo-Saxons, AD 1066)
- Manzikert (Byzantines vs. Seljuq Turks, AD 1071)
- Durazzo (Byzantines vs. Normans, AD 1082)
- Dorylaeum (Crusaders vs. Seljuq Turks, 1097)
- Hattin (Crusaders vs. Moslems, AD 1187)
- Liegnitz (Mongols vs. Germans, AD 1241)
- El Mansura (French vs. Arabs, AD 1250)