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The Book of Tarn Viking Warriors
The Book of Tarn Viking Warriors
Rise of the Valkyrie - Master Set Character Bio: These hardy warriors from the icy regions of Earth have adapted well to the physical stresses of Valhalla's rugged environment. Tarn Warriors can travel quickly despite their heavy helmets, weapons and armor. A primitive lot, they are prone to infighting, gambling, and a host of superstitious activities. On Earth, the Tarn squad served Thorgrim. After Jandar rescued him, these elite warriors were the only survivors left to defend the Viking castle. Greatly outnumbered, they fled to the woods of Korland, where Thorgrim's enemies, Ulrick and his Dreadguls, hunted them down. Jandar returned for the Tarn Vikings, sparing them from certain slaughter at the hands of the bloodthirsty Ulrick. (Hasbro) _________________________________________________________________ -Rulings and Clarifications-
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Last edited by R˙chean; April 11th, 2015 at 02:36 PM. Reason: VC Synergy added |
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A nice unit to fill in 50 points. One thing they can really excel at is absorbing Viking souls. If you take them as your last 50 points along with Finn, Thorgrim, and Eldgrim, keep them in the back as a last resort. Being unique, they can take the spirits of their leaders and end up a Move 5, Attack 4, Defense 5 squad of 4 that can potentially clear the field in one run. It's generally better to do this if you already plan to have the Viking Heroes in your team than actually building a strategy around this though.
As always, they make good glyph grabbers if you're lucky with the D20. When the Berserker Charge works, they really throw off your opponents plans. |
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I'm glad someone else sees their awesomeness when paired with the Viking heroes. I see these guys overlooked by so many players. Seems like many that do play them complain about their unique status and want to house-rule them as common. That would defeat the whole point of them....they're the dumping ground for Viking Spirits.
Naysayers that claim a Viking army has no synergy need to play more "Spirit and Tarn" armies. They're a fun melee force and can be great when properly reinforced with range or other support units like Raelin. |
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Another thing the charge is great for is getting across water. They are one of the few units without flying or slither that can jump into the water and hop out in the same turn (others that come to mind are alastir, eldegrim, and the microcorps. Did I miss any?)
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And for Alastair, and Eldgrim, I'm assuming that you mean that they can overextend, (once per round), to jump in,..and then hop out of water on the same turn, (assuming of course the body of water they cross is only one hex wide.) As for the Microcorps, they're just good to go any day whenever they want. 9 RotV - 4 SotM - 5 DDMS - 2 MarvelScape - 7 RttFF - 6 FotV - 5 VW - 4 TT - 4 TJ - 5 GC Xclusive - 6 FB's - 1,561 Figures - 7,147 Hexes - 174.24% Complete - (All for just $4,000 BUCKS) |
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I absolute LOVE the Tarn Vikings. Awesome choice to use those last 50 points. I too love to draft at least two of the vikings and put their 'souls' on the Tarns. Skater_11 had put all 3 of the 'souls' on the Tarns and I heard they kicked @$$! 99.9% of the time they are worth their points.
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50 points to get 4 figures with 4 defense and an average attack of 3.
You can't go wrong. Only downside is they are a bit slow. I find their charge to rarely work so unlike some of the above I don't include that in their strengths has for me it proves so unreliable. |
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I agree. I hate seeing references to their great speed. It's potential speed, and a potential that is rarely fulfilled for me.
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give me 50 points left in my army, and I'm taking the Marro Warriors over these guys every day of the week. 4 figures with 6 move/6 range every activation wins easily versus 4 figures with 5 move/1 range or, if you're fairly lucky, 10 move/1 range (still a threat range two spaces smaller). The Marro Warriors just plain and simple provide more of a threat. I suppose that if you're only going up against other melee figures, the extra attack die can be helpful, but, heck, if you're only going up against other melee figures, I'd rather have the Marros to run and gun and hide and clone when one dies. No contest in my book.
But, then, I'd also take the WoA and MBS over these guys, so maybe I've just got it in for them or something? |
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Normally I don't use them because I don't like unique Squads. They are strong as long as you ca use 4 of them in a turn. But if one if them dies or even two, the roundmarker for the Vikings is waisted. That´s why I prefer common squads which I can use twice or more.
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I'm not sure of the math on it and I'm probably just being to technical and it would be interesting to see what the actual average movement is. Grenade lobbyist |
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