Vikings are fun. There is nothing more satisfying than spanking an invading army made up of Huscarls and Landsmenn in early, but it can also go horribly wrong.

Since I like to play Wales, I have to be a bit careful when I see their first ships, but I have found that the very early ships will not quite be sufficient to reach all the way from Hordaland to my home provinces. When I got my judgement wrong on that one, I ended up with an invasion of one of their princes plus one unit of Landsmenn and another, mauled, unit of Huscarls. Thank goodness Wales is so hilly, since that gave my two archer units enough time to shoot the Huscarls to bits, with even the odd salvo for the Landsmenn, before my one unit of Celts mopped up. VERY enjoyable!