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On December 11, 2014, TaleWorlds published a DLC for Mount & Blade: Warband titled Viking Conquest. The DLC is based on the popular community-made mod Brytenwalda, which gained TaleWorlds' attention and was developed as an official expansion of Warband. [32]
The story's two protagonists – feuding spacemen of the future who are of distant Scandinavian origin and one of whom (the villain) is historically conscious – decide to revive this Viking tradition, resorting to a deadly holmgang on a lonely asteroid instead of a sea island, in order to settle their irreconcilable differences over a tangled ...
A son of Eystein Glumra, Sigurd was a leader in the Viking conquest of what is now northern Scotland. His death was said to have been caused by the severed head of Máel Brigte, whom Sigurd defeated in battle. [1] As he rode a horse with Máel Brigte's head attached to his saddle as a trophy, one of Máel Brigte's teeth grazed against Sigurd's leg.
Viking Child; Viking Quest; Viking Raiders; Viking: Battle for Asgard; Vikings (video game) Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest; Vikings: War of Clans; Vikings: Wolves of Midgard; Volgarr the Viking
Early precursors include the board games Outreach and Stellar Conquest, both published in the 1970s. [1] Some early strategy video games, such as Andromeda Conquest (1982) and Cosmic Balance II (1983) incorporated what would later become elements of 4X games, but the first 4X video game was Reach for the Stars (1983).
The Great Heathen Army, [a] also known as the Viking Great Army, [1] was a coalition of Scandinavian warriors who invaded England in 865 AD. Since the late 8th century, the Vikings [ b ] had been engaging in raids on centres of wealth, such as monasteries .
Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest is a 1996 video game from GT Interactive. The game was narrated by actor Michael Dorn of "Star Trek: The Next Generation. [1]
The Great Heathen Army arrived to East Anglia in 865 and conquered York in Northumbria two years later, starting the Viking conquest and colonization of much of northeast England. [11] While they are expressly called Danes in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , the army appears to have been formed by Vikings operating in Francia and Frisia.