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Viking: Tactical Warfare In The Dark Ages, 700-1300

Maneuver forces across tactical or historical battle maps.

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Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.25/5

Rating

6.70

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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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.

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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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Play and group

Players
2
Best with
2
Play time
120 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.3/5
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Designers

1
John Young

Artists

1
Redmond A. Simonsen

Publishers

1
SPI (Simulations Publications, Inc.)

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