What's the easiest civ to play on the Scenario 1066: Year of Viking Destiny?

[Yuri Bezmenov]

So, I'm planning to get some juicy achievements related to difficulty. I'd like to know what's the best civ to play in this scenario for getting the difficulty achievements: Normandy? Denmark? Norway? Or England?

[General Malaise]

That I don't know.

Churchill said, never have so many, owed so much, to so few(Battle of Britain) - and he was right. Battle of Trafalga was a similar instance. Losing either battle, Britain gets invaded. .

I challenge anyone, to find a battle in human history, where so few, have won so much - as at the Battle of Hastings.

Something like 3,000 people - won The UK!. 1,000 years before, something like 70,000 Romans died, for the glory of Crassus, and won nothing. 1066 was a minor skirmish.

[cerberusiv]

Originally posted by Yuri AsFoxger:

So, I'm planning to get some juicy achievements related to difficulty. I'd like to know what's the best civ to play in this scenario for getting the difficulty achievements: Normandy? Denmark? Norway? Or England?

I've only played as Norway but I believe they are the easiest as from the start you are capturing cities far enough from London to be able to build shire courts in them. Then you can let the other three destroy each other before driving on London and rushing Domesday with a great engineer.

[Poldavo]

Let me try with your challenge:

Originally posted by stevethebarbarian:

I challenge anyone, to find a battle in human history, where so few, have won so much - as at the Battle of Hastings.

The Battle of Yarmouk (636 AC) in which a smaller army of Arab commanders crushed the troops of Byzantine general Heraclitus, letting the way to the Islamic conquest of everything from the Iberian peninsula to Western China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yarmouk#Evaluation

Think on the global scale consequences of that defeat: "Although Yarmouk is little known today, it is one of the most decisive battles in human history...... Had Heraclius' forces prevailed, the modern world would be so changed as to be unrecognizable."

In contrast, Hastings is a battle whose aftermath has more narrow consequences (basically to the development of England as an anglo saxon nation state).

[Yuri Bezmenov]

Originally posted by cerberusiv:

Originally posted by Yuri AsFoxger:

So, I'm planning to get some juicy achievements related to difficulty. I'd like to know what's the best civ to play in this scenario for getting the difficulty achievements: Normandy? Denmark? Norway? Or England?

I've only played as Norway but I believe they are the easiest as from the start you are capturing cities far enough from London to be able to build shire courts in them. Then you can let the other three destroy each other before driving on London and rushing Domesday with a great engineer.

Awesome, thanks for the reply! Will try!

[Damsteri]

I think the scenario is one of the easiest scenarios, if you play on any invading civ. I was surprised when I won the scenario on deity on my first deity try.

The key for easy victories is the use of great engineers. And there is way too many free units too.

[General Malaise]

Originally posted by alejandro.guerrero:

Let me try with your challenge:

Originally posted by stevethebarbarian:

I challenge anyone, to find a battle in human history, where so few, have won so much - as at the Battle of Hastings.

The Battle of Yarmouk (636 AC) in which a smaller army of Arab commanders crushed the troops of Byzantine general Heraclitus, letting the way to the Islamic conquest of everything from the Iberian peninsula to Western China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yarmouk#Evaluation

Think on the global scale consequences of that defeat: "Although Yarmouk is little known today, it is one of the most decisive battles in human history...... Had Heraclius' forces prevailed, the modern world would be so changed as to be unrecognizable."

In contrast, Hastings is a battle whose aftermath has more narrow consequences (basically to the development of England as an anglo saxon nation state).

Interesting. There were about 20 x as many troops involved in that Battle though.

For the same reason, you could say the Battle of Tours, and the Battle of Vienna were as important.

[SamBC]

Having had to clear some posts out of this thread, it seems appropriate to remind everyone that real-world politics, including geopolitics, are not acceptable here. Nor is nationalism, including doing countries down.