What made the Vikings so much better at war than their peers?
What made the Vikings so much better at war than their peers?
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They figured out how to raid by sea pretty early on, I always figured the Vikings were to blame for the reason why Scandinavia was full of beautiful women and England was full of Uggos. I mean if you were a viking raping and pillaging in the English Isles, are you gonna bring the uggos back home?
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>in Finland
they raped in egypt too?
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top fucking kek!
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They really weren't great at actual war. They were good at fighting. Most of the fighting the Vikings did was relatively small scale. They did a lot of hit and run, catching a village or town by surpirse with a numerically superior force of fighting men, fucking their shit up, and then heading back to their coastal base where they could sail away if need be. If you're asking what made them good fighters on an individual basis, probably the fact that they practiced a religion where fighting and dying in battle was the highest honor one could achieve. Their culture was more geared toward fighting, and they were generally known to be larger in stature than other people.
Norse raiders?
>that one battle where an entire Viking fleet got burned by 15 Byzantine ships
Most viking battles go like this: attack undefended village and kill the unarmed civilians, then run away. If you're victorious, it's because no army intercepted you. If you're defeated, it's because you got caught and had to fight armed soldiers.
>300 years of constant warfare disproved by 10 battles
VIKINGS BTFO
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there are tons of smaller battles won by the vikings but my points is that there is no point in cherrypicking smaller battles, especially when the vikings conquered england twice. simplifying shit to this degree is frankly disrespectful in memory of the people that actually had to fight these rowing rapists
After being raped by the Ummayads in Seville the vikings virtually stopped raiding in the area, if we're talking raiding here, Barbary pirates were more successful, from the barbary coast they raided every nook in the mediterranean, Europe including the English channel and even Iceland, most western coasts of Africa south of the Saharas and even fucking South America..
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>After a long siege most vikings gets bored and leaves for easier takings
>Charles the fat arrives and literally pays the remaining vikings to fuck off as the Parisians even though he could've easily fought them
What did the Barbary pirates accomplish? I know nothing about them.
asymetric warfare, i.e. pillage and get out fast to next location
They preyed on weak and defenseless monastaries/villages.
That's what makes them so "great" at "war".
They were shit at war. They were good at raiding unprotected settlements and retreating before they faced resistance.
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This is why we can't have nice things.
>driven out of Ireland
No they were driven out by en.wikipedia.org
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>the vikings conquered england twice
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What made this map so more shit than its peers ?