I just finished a revised Abbey blitz with the Vikings on hard.
Starting with the Orcades abbey, taking all abbeys on the east, south and then the west coast abbeys up to Reget (Reget is a nice battle), across Manau to Ireland, finishing in Brega ready to settle.

I did it with absolutely minimal army numbers, just my King solo the first few years, then adding his heirs as they were churned out, at one point I added a unit of surplus peasants to soak up arrows, The final Irish battles was fought in numbers though, Kerns really are a pain in the behind :)

I now stand firmly in Brega in Ireland, ready to set down my first watch tower, and I accumulated the following goodies:

40056 florins, 4 heirs with 4 to 8 in command, and a lot of V&V for the King.
Mighty warrior +10 health +2 valor
Builder +10 happy
Secret rough justice +1 dread
Specialist attacker +3 command
skilled assaulter +1 command
No mercy +2 dread -1 morale (oops)
He has 5 command stars (9 when attacking) :)

I only had to wait 1 turn for a boat from Jutland, I went straight for boathouse there, no towers or anything, that kept me raiding all the abbeys non stop except for 1 turn.

I decided to quickly build for huscarls in Nordland again, but I should prolly have build for a little trade instead, I never really used any of my army, so Im not hurting for a strong unit just yet.

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