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Viking Invasion is not remotely historically accurate. The 'Scots' (what?) and the 'Irish' are both wildly historically inaccurate (and far too weak; where'd the Danes invade first? Ireland. And where'd they go second? England. Why? Cause the Irish beat the living hell out of them, so they left Ireland to the Norse, who had Irish princes do most of their fighting for them outside the new city-states like Wexford, Dublin, Wicklow, Galway, and Cork). The Welsh are an unholy travesty too. That either Ireland or Wales was one faction is heinous. Nevermind the 'Scots' (they didn't call themselves anything approaching that, damn it) also controlled all of Ulster, when Ulster was 5 competing principalities for quite a time. That Ireland was only divided into 5 provinces and given one faction is a nightmare, especially considering the Leinstermen regularly allied with the Norse, and it was a king from Ulster (Mael Sechnaill) and from Munster (Brian Boru) who won the great military victories against the Norse.

And what was up with the Welsh names on the Isle of Mann? Gaels had since conquered the island and had enforced naming caveats. And why was Meath called Brega? Brega is a tiny sub-kingdom in Meath that descends from the Brigantian presence there. Why is the castle in Ulster Emain Macha? Emain Macha was burned in the 3rd century AD.

The Irish unit selection is ten-thousand kings of wrong. Where the Knights of the Golden Chain? They were the most famous order of chivalry outside of Frankish courts, and were a direct inspiration for Arthurian legends, AND they inspired near the entirety of the chivalric code, considering it was their code that the Irish missionaries brought to the court of the Carolignians and employed as a basis for their own royal retainers, which in turn inspired chivalry. Where are the house soldiers (the best trained ignoble, non-landed soldiers in western Europe right up to the middle ages, considering they were actually, you know...trained, as in really trained, in marching, formations, offensive and defense motions, and equipped too, which was pretty unusual for non-landed soldiery in those days)? Why the hell are their gallowglass when they didn't exist until the high middle ages? What the hell are 'dart men', considering every Irish soldier carried darts and javelins? Why are their no slings or bowmen? Why are their royal guards horsemen when the Arras fought on foot? Most importantly, why the living hell are the Dal Riadans (to hell with that 'Scot' stuff) any different? They were Irishmen for Christ's sake. What's this 'highlander' bull? Highlanders being recognized as seperate soldiers only emerged due to differences between lowlanders and highlanders in the middle ages, and even then, all highlanders were were essentially Irish-cultured men who lived in Scotland.

...There's a lot more wrong, but I'd not even call VI 'semi-historical'.

I'm sure you're right, my knowledge on the period is limitted. I thought it was somewhat historically grounded. Guess not, but that goes to my argument that TW was never historically accurate. A very informative post Anthony.