Preview of some viking unit's

**Rodion Romanovich** · 08-01-2005, 10:30

Nice work!

**King Ragnar** · 08-01-2005, 10:45

Bravo, one thing does the shield on the archer appear big to anyone else or is that correct, please someone correct me im probably wrong.

**skeletor** · 08-01-2005, 11:18

@ King Ragnar
As you can see, the shield on the Viking spearman is big. This unit is ment to form the bulk of the viking Sjoldborg/Shieldwall. The landsmann on the other hand, who is an offencive shock unit, has a smaller shield to be more agile.

The vikings used pretty large shields. I have seen some of them in museums, and most of them were 80-90cm wide. (some eaven bigger)

If you compare the size of the spearman's shield to hes body, it's about half hes hight. The average hight of a western man is about 180cm, so that makes the diametre of the shield about 90 cm.

EDIT: Oh, you wrote "on the archer"

, it's the same size as that of the birk. spear, and smaller then most of the ithers, it's just that the archer on the pic is posed a bit crumbled (see legs) making the shield look relative bigger..

Cheers!
-Skel-

**King Ragnar** · 08-01-2005, 12:16

Ahhh i see what you mean, thanks for the info. They look great.

**Jarlabanke** · 08-03-2005, 18:56

Very nice, though presonally I would like some variation in the hemet shapes.
Something like this for example: http://www.jelldragon.com/images/jk_..._helmet_sn.jpg

**GoreBag** · 08-03-2005, 20:33

Well, there are three different styles right there, including the one you of which you made an example...

**skeletor** · 08-03-2005, 21:25

There will be changes in the helmets. I have pictured those "pointy" helmets for the farankish, and norman soldiers... I still got alot of viking units to do, so there can be plenty of styles.. but just keap those syggestions comming, it's easy to get stuck in on style..

-Skel-