Same I love playing as norsca in the total war warhammer games. They are more grounded then the chaos faction. Feels like to me they don't rely on dark powers as much as the chaos faction where some units in the chaos faction are somewhat mutated. but with norsca they rely more on their own strength and faith in the chaos gods. Plus their inspiration comes from our nordic cultures which is a big plus in my book. When I get my new pc the first faction I'm going to play as is norsca and as they say "enslave the southerners"

If you're going to be very specific not even the whole warrior cast were Vikings. As Viking roughly means to go raiding. Only the ones that left Scandinavia or left their lands to raid other Scandinavian countries were Vikings

Yeah a Viking is a raid and the people who went on them were called vikingrs Like a ride and rider

They went toe to toe with bretonnia. Blow for blow and both sides never yielded. Until one of the bretonnia leaders challenged the norsca leader to single combat. And the norsca leader had two giant warhammers. They are Vikings on Steroids

@@NordicJarl27 that's why they're so fucking cool

@@lelouche25 you damn right they are. That we can both agree on lol

@@lelouche25 also they only lost cause of the single combat where there leader was killed. Said who ever loses have to leave. Lol and they kept their word and left. Just like "aight you guys won this one ok respect. We going to leave now"

I believe they were also fueled by a overpopulation of lesser nobility. It wasn't really that the people couldn't sustain themselves, more than there wasn't enough land and resources to maintain the lifestyles of the growing nobility, and so they had the choice to either be poor or to go settle or conquer new land, or to raid and bring wealth back home to climb the social latter. Similar to how early colonization of the Americas would become, for the British and Spanish at least, a convenient place to get rid of young, aggressive, ambitious, and violent young men with noble titles to keep them from cutting each others throats in the mother country. Granted, greed and curiosity definitely played a part in all of this, but to the young nobles leading the vikings it was essentially seen as their only method of maintaining or acquiring wealth. Iceland would also become a large proto-republican island of exile for those fleeing the new centralizing and Christianising authority in Norway.

Both of you forgot the most pressing matter: encroachment of Christianity from the south, which the Norse saw as a threat to their way of life.

@@heathenpride7931 No they didn't care and there weren't really encroachment of Christianity if any preists showed up you just killed him lmao

It's what I like to believe. Khorne just has some Halls somewhere else where he goes to pick which norse warriors will become demons

Heavily depends on which Chaos God. Khorne cares for the strong and takes care of them and Nurgle cares for all of them for they are his children Tzeetch is complicated, but he does offer an alternative. Whether or not he cares for you is debatable but he offers a way out for those who are in tune with magic Slaanesh is even more complicated

Sorry about that his name was Losteriksson and yes a great deal of warhammer reflects actual historical events.

thank you it is neat that even though it is a fantasy world it still takes a lot of inspiration from reality

Eventually. Though I do not have a set schedule for factions at the moment.

They arent chaos worshippers come on

There are non-Chaos worshipping Norscans who fight alongside the Norscan Dwarfs of Kraka Drak. They're even in the Kraka Drak mod as recruitable infantry.

@@angrygardengnome8383 That's not lore friendly

Yes? There are other norscans who worship others, such as their ancestors

Gork is brutally cunning, Mork is cunningly brutal

@@garretth8224 no gork is cunningly brutal and mork is brutally cunning

Fuck that greenskin leadership sucks.

Also the Hung. Both only sort of, tho. Both are horse riding nomads, which are not represented by warriors of Chaos which have a clear focus on infantry.

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@@kolsveinnskraevolding thank you :D

They killed the whole setting. And even before they did so, Norsca did not have minatures for decades.

The Marauders and Marauder Horsemen are Norscan models.

They still make them

You say that like there's a third one coming

@@dustinwilliams4902 There is

@Marko Milivojević Rust Damn way to call me out

This isn’t gonna scare them, it’s just gonna guarantee that bigger, better armies of Norscans come after you. If you beat them, then you’re a mighty foe, and if you’re a mighty foe, then defeating you will bring a lot of glory.

Survival of the fittest is definitely misinterpretted but not debunked. Taking care of ones young would quite easily fall under the fittest. Being the fittest isnt always about the strongest individuals but just as much about the species strengths and weaknesses as a collective. Even in the most survivable species certain genetic mutations can become major problems if passed down to a large portion of the population so biologically it can make a lot of sense to isolate certain defects and not allow them to be passed down. Only people view this in a moral sense

Reminiscent doesnt mean "exactly like" get a dictionary, please. Also you seem really offended by that. You foreigners need to get some thicker skin.

Britanny Helms yeah, reminiscent doesn’t mean that it’s exactly like, reminiscent just means that it resembles something or reminds you of something

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