![]() ![]() Elite units generally use shields with slightly more uniform and elaborate patterns than lower-tier units. While it is very tempting to add familiar viking knotwork designs such as Oseberg style, these artistic styles were not developed several centuries later and were therefore omitted. Shields inspired by Scandinavian iron age/Vendel/Sutton Hoo/Illerup Ă…dal motifs: Odins crows, simple patterns and contrasting colors. Units with low shield stats are given smaller circular shields. ![]() Most shields are large and circular (Like every single Nordic shield ever found during this period was. Low armor level is represented with thick, padded clothing and/or by allowing a few units in a company to wear mail. (There is no evidence of iron age Nordic soldiers wearing scale or leather armour, neither archaeological or in the Sagas). ![]()
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