Viking: Tactical Warfare in the Dark Ages, 700-1300 (1975)

Viking: Tactical Warfare in the Dark Ages, 700-1300

One of five games in a series by SPI called PRESTAGS (the others were CHARIOT, SPARTAN, LEGION and YEOMAN). Tactical level game. Each game shares a set of the same common rules. Each game also has a set of exclusive rules that highlight features of warfare during the period that game covers.

400 counters

• Qadisiya (Persians vs. Arabs, AD 637)
• Tours (Arabs vs. Franks, AD 732)
• Constantinople (Byzantines vs. Varangians, AD 860)
• Paris (Vikings vs. Franks, AD 885)
• Lourain (Franks vs. Vikings, AD 891)
• Hamburg (Vikings vs. Germans, AD 988)
• Balthusta (Byzantines vs. Bulgars, AD 1014)
• Clontarf (Vikings vs. Irish, AD 1014)
• Cannae II (Byzantines vs. Lombards, AD 1017)
• Civitate (Normans vs. Papists, AD 1053)
• Cerami (Normans vs. Arabs, AD 1063)
• Stamford Bridge (Anglo-Saxons vs. Vikings, AD 1066)
• Hastings (Normans vs. Anglo-Saxons, AD 1066)
• Manzikert (Byzantines vs. Seljuq Turks, AD 1071)
• Durazzo (Byzantines vs. Normans, AD 1082)
• Dorylaeum (Crusaders vs. Seljuq Turks, 1097)
• Hattin (Crusaders vs. Moslems, AD 1187)
• Liegnitz (Mongols vs. Germans, AD 1241)
• El Mansura (French vs. Arabs, AD 1250)