Viking Invasion Fleet

[totalwar360]

Did anyone already have the pleasure to fight against them ?
What i have to except ? One fullstack or many other and where they land ? thx

[Yep]

Few different invasion events. Little ones are usually just 1 stack in the south/southeast but there is a bigger one to the North(for me anyway). I didn't see how many stacks it was but I would imagine at least five like the Norman invasion.

[totalwar360]

interesting

[Saor]

there are 5 stacks in the viking end game invasion fleet , in my playthrough as Sudreyar they arrived off the coast of my capital , not sure if the spawn at differant places or if its set.

[michael kaiser]

started as gwined. first 20 turns i went for the short campaign victory and achieved it. after i became cymru the viking invasions started like crazy. it would happen every 4 turns. but they didnt even bother me (i didnt even see their armies or fleets) i went for long and total victory objective. at the end 180th turn i achieved full campaign victory (my faction name is now "prydein"). i have no mission only 1 objective called "ultimate victory" where i need to defeat a "viking invasion fleet" but the problem is they are not coming. i am doing nothing right now because i have no reason to make war or invade any other lands (i have plenty) but the invasion wont trigger. anyone know anything about this?

[Freygea]

Originally posted by bae21:

started as gwined. first 20 turns i went for the short campaign victory and achieved it. after i became cymru the viking invasions started like crazy. it would happen every 4 turns. but they didnt even bother me (i didnt even see their armies or fleets) i went for long and total victory objective. at the end 180th turn i achieved full campaign victory (my faction name is now "prydein"). i have no mission only 1 objective called "ultimate victory" where i need to defeat a "viking invasion fleet" but the problem is they are not coming. i am doing nothing right now because i have no reason to make war or invade any other lands (i have plenty) but the invasion wont trigger. anyone know anything about this?

A large Viking invasion started about turn 210 for me. I just achieved long term victory. It is actually the first Viking invasion that has a rather large force.

[Hurricane]

The small ones suicide all the time its dumb.... they need to be buffed on legendary

[Dandy]

Endgame invasions are different and you get multiple warnings about them coming. In my playthrough as mide the fleets got wrecked in a storm and fought each other to death off map so they didnt show there. As dyflin they spawned in 2 places at once, north west scotland (norse) and mid east england (danes). The norse had a lot of trouble taking places and didnt expand much, the danes however wrecked northumbria and took everything from them and started to clash with the anglo saxons (alfred). Alfred did a great job taking care of some of their stacks but because I was busy hitting both of them for any territory I could get neither could get the upper hand. I ended up quiting that campaign and starting a different faction (scotland) because my blob extended all over ireland and most of southern england/wales over to london.
I know one fleet didnt make it due to the storm and I would bet good money it was the norman fleet that is supposed to hit southern england.

[Stalindlrp]

you are prolly correct as i got the danes and normans with one fleet lost as the irish vikings

[isak]

i had a 5 stack of danes invade me from the east and a 5 stack of norse attack me from the north around 920 AD playing as circenn

[mustachewarfare]

btw if they captured your vassal's land and you capture it back, do you get an option to return the land to your vassal?

[michael kaiser]

i am currently at 936AD no invasions. only the faction DYFLIN has become "Irish Vikings" over south half of ireland. Can they be my ultimate victory mission? I have no ordinary mission or victory condition about them.

[Voorlopig....]

I fought the "Dene" vikings as West Seaxe, they come up north, near Bebbanburh, and have 4 armies, 2 of them with 19 stacks of troops and 2 with 20. They're pretty hard to beat, they have armored troops and about 2-3 stacks of cavalry per army, they also really like long axes so you might want to have a more than usual number of archers. My advice would be to get about 12 sword / axe units, 4 archers and the rest cavalry. They will try to go after your villages first, and then cities, so make sure you put at least one of your armies in the neares city that the vikings landed to be able to defend it. They sometimes travel together too. 2 armies travelling together makes up to 40 stacks of troops and is hard to defeat but not impossible, if you have a good number of cavalry just flank their ranged troops and then hit their infantry from behind while they're fighting your infantry and you'll come out on top. They're overall not that big of a problem because they usually (if not always) come pretty late in the game so you're pretty much guaranteed to have a enough of armies, money, food and supplies to fight them.
Edit: As someone else said, there are usually some warnings before they actually land on the island. If you see the warnings, try to raise an army up immediately and don't spare any money. You'll need the best troops you can get to defeat them.

[[SIN7] jacojarek56]

I've noticed that the Endgame Viking Invasions almost exclusively will spawn, if nowhere else, next to your nation. They will then usually spawn as far from your armies as they can possibly manage while being as close to villages they can take as possible. First rule seems to be 'spawn away from Player's armies' and the second most important rule is 'after the first rule, spawn as close to undefended areas as possible'. There appear to be different angles they'll come through; as Circeen, they can come from the far North-west or the North East just around the Circeen province, or slightly west and south of that. You'll deal with either 1 or two totally differnet viking factions.

I had to give up on Strat Cult because I had taken all of Scotland...and they spawned in the hard northwest corner of the map where I could never reach them before the gobbled up entire provinces, making them far too powerful. They're MUCH harder to predict simply because they they will appear universally wherever it is most inconvenient for you to deal with near as many undefended villages as possible.

[Scorch]

I got 3 viking fleets on very hard :
The Danes (Dene) arrive roughly around the default spawn of Northymbre and have 5-6 full stacks
The Norse arrive where Sudreyar begins and brings also around 5-6 full stacks
The Normaunds arrive south where the very first viking fleet (the one that attacks East Engle) spawns and attacks West Seaxe, I think, always.
The Norse are by far the most dangerous ones as they are brutally heavily armored and have lvl.10 Generals to spare...
Hope I helped!

[R4MPZY]

I'm really starting to dislike these "spawn" armies, they just spawn at the border of the map and can attack your cities within 1 movement turn while you as the player dont have that much movement range.. how is that fair lol