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    Default Cool Berserker action!

    I was playing a few turns as the Saxons, just to see what they could do, when I was attacked by the Celts in Northern England.
    As my Keelmen stood waiting in their shieldwall, a unit of Hounds of Chulain (sp?) advanced with the rest the Celtic army, but one of those brave berserkers felt like he needed to prove something apparently: he ran forward, to stand just before my battleline alone, shouting at my Keelmen, waving his weapons etc. I couldn't attack him, because the rest of the unit was still out of range for my archers, and I didn't want to mess up my shield wall.
    But it looked really cool, one man shouting and cursing at a couple of hundred before him!!!

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    Default Re: Cool Berserker action!

    Sounds great...

    If you see it again, get some screenshots.

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    Magister Vitae Senior Member Kraxis's Avatar
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    Default Re: Cool Berserker action!

    How cool isn't that.

    So what did he do? Did he confidently turn his back toyour men and march back?
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    No he ran forward on his own, and just stood before my battle line, making the "cheering" moves (just like after the general's openings speech, or when you have won a battle, you see them cheer for a second just before the statistics screen is shown).

    He just stood there cheering, until his buddies were within 'berserk-charge' range and started charging my line, at that moment he also charged.
    Ofcourse, he won the finest jug of ale for the first man to the enemy, but I'm not sure if he lived to claim it.

    Since I only played a few quick turns to get a feel for the game I didn't think about taking screenshots.

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    Berserkers are awsome. There is like 16 to a unit and they are like elephants. They don't kill, they just knock the crap out of lines and stuff. They are pretty nice units.


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    Default Re: Cool Berserker action!

    The new berserker units would work well with an Ancient Mesopotamian time period mod, as you had champions and then lots and lots of poorly equipped soldiers(in the beginning). The berserker units just smashing through whole units reminds me of this.
    What if it is actualy you who are crazy, and I am realy not crazy?... No, you're right... I am crazy.

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    Alexanderofmacedon: I´ve found the perfect use for the berserkers, in v1.2 anyways. Load them into a siege tower as the spearhead unit. Since they´re such a small unit, they leave the tower pretty fast (I think all soldiers of a unit have to be on the top floor of a siege tower for the bridge to drop down) and they can hold their own pretty good. Using them with ladders is not as advisable, they tend to get shot up too fast, but the tower protects them, or rather it draws all the fire.

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    Default Re: Cool Berserker action!

    Hmm...yesterday, I noticed the same thing with a unit of Vandal Horde Missile Cavalry, so perhaps it's more of a glitch in the unit line up than a real feature...

    Btw, when taking screenshot, wasn't their a map somewhere on your harddrive, or in 'My documents' where al the printscreens went to? Or do you have to printscreen, paste all the time??

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