Viking (Alpha)
Overview
The Viking is a unit that has a small, rounded shield and axe. They are part of the Viking Faction, as the name implies. When implemented into the new animation system, it gained a unique feature, the ability to do a combat roll and evade attacks.
Appearance
In its right hand, the Viking wields an axe. In their left hand, the Viking has a round shield. This shield is good at blocking arrows and some other projectiles, but is not immune to other stronger projectiles such has Musket fire.
Usage
The Viking's shield helps protects the Viking, just like the Shield unit but is is smaller and less effective. Their axe attacks with a "overhead chop" , like Barbarians and Samurai and deals good damage on impact. They are also relatively cheap, and can be placed in large numbers, similar to Peasants, but with much more health and smaller numbers. They are effective for rushing the enemy and move very fast and cover a lot of ground. This can be used to make a faster-moving version of a wall of shield units. The trade off is that they are more vulnerable to projectiles from units like Muskets, but that is somewhat compensated by their faster move speed. They are also not as good at protecting the back line as Shields for the same reason. They are good all-around units for the reason that they carry two items, an offensive and defensive one. they also are good against samurai because there swords hit the shield first
Countering Vikings
A good counter to Vikings are Spearmen, Another good counter are the Energy Pistols, who shoot through the shields, along with Muskets. Farmers are also good for taking out Vikings.
Usage
- It can swarm like the Headbutter.
- It is good at breaking the enemy's formation.
- Sometime the viking can survive dangerous shots such as Cannon Crew's bomb, Ballista's explosive rounds, Hwacha's arrows, and Catapult's rocks.
- It is one of the fastest units in the game.
- It can block arrows and shurikens.
Counter
- Muskets, Energy Swords, etc (all gun/rifle or energy weapons) can be effective against Vikings.
- Spears are effective because their axe is shorter than swords and or katanas.
- You can decoy Vikings with Peasants and put Archers on the flank to take out the Viking's unprotected side.
Trivia
- As of the Closed Alpha, it is the only unit to wield both a melee weapon and a shield, however other units that do this are expected to be released in the near future. (the hoplite, for example)
- As of Closed Alpha it is one of two units to dual wield, the other being Trump.
- In real life Vikings never wore horns on their helmets, it is a myth.
- Their shields are often weighed down by spears.
- In the full release they are called Brawler.
- It is the one of the three units that has the exact same name as the faction it is in.
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- Vikings
- Open Alpha
- Closed Alpha
- Pre-Alpha
- Units