Are there any armies that are like Vikings?

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**ShieldBrother**

Furyou Miko wrote:
Nevelon wrote:
Fisheyes wrote:
ok, cant believe im the only one to think dark eldar? They ride in, kill and rape everyone in their way, take everything of value, including slaves, then f*** off back where they came from before any local power can react. Very viking to me

I mentioned them as an option upthread.

The problem with them is there is zero connection visually to vikings. Or from a fluff/background POV. Just the basic pillage and burn MO. But when most people say “I want to play a viking army” they want a big guy with a beard putting an axe through someone. DE fail to deliver that. They also play very much like a glass hammer, again, not a big viking theme.

I guess you could trick out raiders to look like longboats. Not that far of a stretch. Mix up some old dark/wood elf WHFB guys for a little savagery.

I disagree - berserkers are "All offence, no care for protecting themselves". That's very Glass Cannon - their only protection is that they feel no pain (geddit?).

You could easily do a Viking-style dark eldar army. It won't be great on the battlefield, because CC is awful, but it could be very cool. Mostly built around Wyches and Wracks deploying out of Raiders, with Jetbikes with capture nets (I forget the names) in support.

Model the Wyches up with furs, axes and small shields (Wyches naturally have 6++ invun in CC, do't they? That's the same as a Combat Shield), give the Raiders raised dragon-head prows and shielded sides, model your Wracks with furs and giant axes as berserkers.

Not just Vikings. Elves going a-viking. XD

Last time I checked, vikings weren't skinny little elves who are WAY too much into some wierd stuff. The Viking motif doesn't fit at all. They're more akin to pirates.

**Tiberius501**

Nevelon wrote:
Furyou Miko wrote:
Nevelon wrote:
The problem with them is there is zero connection visually to vikings. Or from a fluff/background POV. Just the basic pillage and burn MO. But when most people say “I want to play a viking army” they want a big guy with a beard putting an axe through someone. DE fail to deliver that. They also play very much like a glass hammer, again, not a big viking theme.

I guess you could trick out raiders to look like longboats. Not that far of a stretch. Mix up some old dark/wood elf WHFB guys for a little savagery.

I disagree - berserkers are "All offence, no care for protecting themselves". That's very Glass Cannon - their only protection is that they feel no pain (geddit?).

You could easily do a Viking-style dark eldar army. It won't be great on the battlefield, because CC is awful, but it could be very cool. Mostly built around Wyches and Wracks deploying out of Raiders, with Jetbikes with capture nets (I forget the names) in support.

Model the Wyches up with furs, axes and small shields (Wyches naturally have 6++ invun in CC, do't they? That's the same as a Combat Shield), give the Raiders raised dragon-head prows and shielded sides, model your Wracks with furs and giant axes as berserkers.

Not just Vikings. Elves going a-viking. XD

I stand corrected. And now want to see this done.

I am actually pretty tempted to try this myself haha

But I agree with #1shieldbrother++. Their fluff doesn't really work. While Vikings raided, they did it for other reasons than for weird, messed up lusts like the DE

Surely there's a good CC army I could convert, maybe even make up my own fluff for them. But an army that makes use of shield walls, longboat-esk tactics, axes, swords, shields, large forces of dudes. I'd use Ork rules but firstly, they suck, and secondly, the WYSIWYG would be horrifically off point haha

**commander dante**

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**Tiberius501**

commander dante wrote:
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See I was thinking that, but I'd like to model them as humans (because I'm racist, clearly). And they wouldn't be at all WYSIWYG haha

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If I did go an Ork Viking themed list, what figures could I use to convert? I'd like it to be games workshop figures if possible, to be illegible for tournaments and such

You know what? I might start this as a new thread haha

**Engine of War**

Besides the Spehess wolf wolf wolf wolves.

You could always make your army all Viking-y and stuff.

**Elbows**

How about using older, slightly more subdued Space Wolves with Blood Angel rules?