It was almost exlusively a Norwegian Vikings technique of combat.
The Vikings had already developed spy networks from their many commercial counters vicus. These spies informed them of the local customs, the dates of religious feasts, helped with translation and indicated places to plunder and personalities to be removed and hold to ransom. It happened that Vikings made these raids against their own countrymen as well. Harald I, known as Harald Fairhair, prohibited strandhögg on the Norwegian territory.
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Strandhogg...Great name for a beach fight :-D
Cheers
paul
I'm very interested in what scenarios it has.
You might also want to check out the free Age of Blood rules, which we have really been enjoying for our Viking raids. You'll find them here:
http://www.rebelpublishing.net/resources/Age_of_Blood_2nd_Edition.pdf
Thanks for the link there AoB looks very interesting.
Not played them yet but Strandhogg are a pretty fast and stripped down set of skirmish rules for about 50 figures (1:1 ratio) per side. Reviews seem to have been positive from what I can tell.
Unfortunately no scenarios but I think they would suit simple raid type games pretty well. Not sure from a campaign aspect yet.
Good playtest and review on BoardGameGeek here -
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/540361/strandhogg-a-review-and-a-playtest
I've not heard of these before, I'll look them up.
I've some free Viking flags for download on my blog, take a look!
cheers
Ray
http://onelover-ray.blogspot.com/2011/02/vikingsaxon-flags-no-6.html
Thanks for that wardy-la, I'll check them out. Cheers
I use these rules for fantasy skirmish. The command and morale system is great, but the melee system... not so.
You can see my game reports over at my blog.
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