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Viking: Tactical Warfare in the Dark Ages, 700-1300
Viking: Tactical Warfare in the Dark Ages, 700-1300
by SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.) (1975)
Player Count
2

Player Ages
12+

Playing Time
2 hours
Categories
  • Wargame
  • Medieval
  • Designers
  • John Young
  • Mechanisms
  • Hex-and-Counter
  • Dice Rolling
  • Artists
  • Redmond A. Simonsen
  • Family
  • PRESTAGS
  • History: Crusades
  • History: Norman conquest of England
  • History: Viking expansion
  • History: Early Muslim conquests
  • Player Count: Two Player Only Games
  • Rating: 6.51/10 from 60 users

    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)

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