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Shadowbrand wrote:@Cheesecat The Saxon and Normans at Hastings.
So we have a few armies here and there who can take them that's still a pretty good track record considering they put Europe in constant fear for several centuries. Also it wasn't a military force that killed the Vikings it was cultural changes such as
converting to Christianity and not wanting to enslave Christians (one of there primary sources of profit) anymore that did it.
But in my defense. The Normans lineage goes back to us.
They are a mixture of the Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman people, the Normans live in Northern France.
I think the major problem here is that there is a significant gap between Vikings and Pirates. Muskets would prove to be quite difficult but I'm sorry in close combat we got you.
*Edit*
Found this whilst looking of a picture of a Pirate fighting a Viking.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here we go!
The lack of pictures was killing me!!!
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I've sold so many armies. :(
Aeldari 3kpts Slaves to Darkness.3k Word Bearers 2500k Daemons of Chaos
I think we are on something that the internets hasnt caught up to yet. I cannot find a damn picture with a VIKING fighting a PIRATE.
*note, I wish that "viking" chick was in my bed right now. Id cheat on my wife in a snap..... unless she was in the bed too.....then....I er...... WTF am I sitting here typing for? It could be happening!
Good luck gents
Automatically Appended Next Post: OH EF - Id like to add though, the Pirates we are all arguing about used muskets, which were VERY inaccurate unless you were literally a few feet infront of the gun. They were nothing like muzzleloaders we have today, or hell even like the smooth bores from revolutionary war times. Im talking once the round left the barrel it was anyones guess where the damn things were going.
Its not much of an argument, but it still stands
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You only had to be a few feet away. you're fighting on the deck of a ship. yeah 10 feet is probably long range, but what's he going to do? run towards you! That's why all the fearsome pirate cap'ns didn't just carry a pistol, they carried a whole harness full of em. a "brace" of 6 loaded pistols strapped around them. Fire one, toss it aside, fire another, etc. and reclaim up your discarded litter after the killin's been done. YAaar!
The cabin boy was such a toy
He was a little nipper
He packed his arse with broken glass
to circumcize the skipper...
Cuz we was...
Friggin in the riggin...
friggin in the riggin
friggin in the riggin cuz theres feth all else to do...
singin Yaar yaar...
we're dancin on the bar...
I shat me pantaloons
when I counted me doublouns...
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I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
I'm both chaotic and orderly. I value my own principles, and am willing to go to extreme lengths to enforce them, often trampling on the very same principles in the process. At best, I'm heroic and principled; at worst, I'm hypocritical and disorderly.
[1]Source: Deadliest Warrior, the most scientific appraisal of warriors and their deadliestness currently available to researchers. [2]Source: Common sense, the knight has better armor and the samurai lacks the equipment and training to combat it. No it doesn't matter that samurai were actually used as horse archers, all that matters is that their portrayal is internally consistent, geez.
But samurai have katanas, and katanas do more damage than lightsabers.
At least if you listen to the majority of gamer dweebs.
Guitardian wrote:You only had to be a few feet away. you're fighting on the deck of a ship. yeah 10 feet is probably long range, but what's he going to do? run towards you! That's why all the fearsome pirate cap'ns didn't just carry a pistol, they carried a whole harness full of em. a "brace" of 6 loaded pistols strapped around them. Fire one, toss it aside, fire another, etc. and reclaim up your discarded litter after the killin's been done. YAaar!
The cabin boy was such a toy
He was a little nipper
He packed his arse with broken glass
to circumcize the skipper...
Cuz we was...
Friggin in the riggin...
friggin in the riggin
friggin in the riggin cuz theres feth all else to do...
singin Yaar yaar...
we're dancin on the bar...
I shat me pantaloons
when I counted me doublouns...
I changed my mind. Pirates win because of this song.
Drink deeply and lustily from the foamy draught of evil.
W: 1.756 Quadrillion L: 0 D: 2
Haters gon' hate.
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Shadowbrand wrote:Exactly.
I think the major problem here is that there is a significant gap between Vikings and Pirates. Muskets would prove to be quite difficult but I'm sorry in close combat we got you.
That's like saying "Leman Russ Battletanks and Basiliks and Baneblades would prove to be quite difficult but I'm sorry in close combat we got you."
Yeah, get through the cannons and musketry first. Then you can brag about CC.
Smacks wrote:
After the game, pack up all your miniatures, then slap the guy next to you on the ass and say.
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Since when did vikings not have parties?
They had raiding parties.
Festivals.
Beaches
Scandanavian women
Aqua vita and Mead
Extremely competent seagoing credentials
Founded many a city
Founded the world's first parliament
and a had better knowledge of history than Roobiks
Aren't they the same? Vikings were just early pirates without the rum. Poor Vikings never having rum. That must have sucked.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Since when did vikings not have parties?
They had raiding parties.
Festivals.
Beaches
Scandanavian women
Aqua vita and Mead
Extremely competent seagoing credentials
Founded many a city
Founded the world's first parliament
and a had better knowledge of history than Roobiks
Aren't they the same? Vikings were just early pirates without the rum. Poor Vikings never having rum. That must have sucked.
They had Mead. Thus they win.
Mmmm. Mead. Yet another reason to move back South, as I know where to buy it there!
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Since when did vikings not have parties?
They had raiding parties.
Festivals.
Beaches
Scandanavian women
Aqua vita and Mead
Extremely competent seagoing credentials
Founded many a city
Founded the world's first parliament
and a had better knowledge of history than Roobiks
Aren't they the same? Vikings were just early pirates without the rum. Poor Vikings never having rum. That must have sucked.
They had Mead. Thus they win.
Mmmm. Mead. Yet another reason to move back South, as I know where to buy it there!
Pfff here's is an adventure to find it!!!! at least a decent one... but here in Mallorca there's many places that make it for village markets.... good enough...( i had drinked better ones.. but by now there's no other way..)
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