why change campaign?

safe to mid campaign??????????????????????????

how do you do this bro?

I gotta say, they look amazing. They're easily the best looking unit I've seen so far on this workshop.

id love a version of this mod that just adds the units and doesnt change the campaign

ehh if you are Russian like me, then no we don't get offended when someone thinks of us as a viking colonies or settlers... We LiKe It

Ehh..if you are norwegian,like me,then no. We dont get offended by people terming everyone a viking when describing our ancestors. We still do the same thing,whenever horny or thirsty we go abroad and satisfy those urges..Then back home,and "Yes,the sun was nice! Not much else happening!!"...lol...

are they really called varangian guard or are they the orgionally name that starts with an h ? ive yet to see anything in my game with varangian guard.

Ragael: sad to hear it doesnt work for you. The mod is 100% stable, the problem is on your side: it may be not compatible with other mods you've installed.

game crashes after a few minutes of playing, or just sitting and looking on the map. not even trying to end turn

Ah, wise of you Draksen; carry on then.

Concerning the word "Viking" I agree with you. But I use the term only because it's the most common one to describe the Norse of that time period. As for them being all christian, I wouldnt be that sure ... tombs of guard with hammers of Thor have been found. And most of them continued to write runes on their armors and weapons asking the godS to help them in battle. Now once more, we cant compare the early Varangians with the late Varangians. They were at the beginning northmen, pagan northmen, while at the end of the empire they became a mix of men from germanic and anglo-saxon origins, exclusively christian.

Thanks for the comments Sparticus.
Concerning the word "Romans" I stay true to myself and I see the Eastern Roman empire as Roman. Fully roman, in term of institutions and law. The fact that they were not "italian" is totally irrelevant to my eyes. The term "Byzantine" on the other hand is a modern XIXth century invention. They never called themselves Byzantines. The European kingdoms called them romans (the term "Greeks" came later, at the end of the empire), and even their Turc enemies at the end continued to call them romans, "roumi".

That's like saying all the people in norway were viking. Yes i did see what you said in the comment section but continuing to misuse the word viking is almost like being racist to northmen, If you watch youtube and saw the debunking of game theory's review on for honor, debunked by metatron, you'd hear that Metatron was quite annoyed when game theory said "Viking people." Viking are not a people, it's a choice of how to get money. NOTHING in history books, hell not even in byzantine records say that the elite guard unit, the Varangian guard, took on monastaries and burned preachers. because they were practicing Eastern Orthodox Christianity, completely wipes out the word viking that you have labeled these greek men, You should really take off viking from there, because like i said, some northmen could take this offensive, but hey. But, in all, the mod is great, the models are great.

I wouldn't call them ROMAN vikings. Yes Byzantines are considered roman, BUT the empire was mostly greek men who WERE Roman citizens not Originally italian-romano. Considering this, the mod is good but your literally making the varangian guard, an elite unit in Constantinople of norse heritage, a infantry unit. And Vikings isn't the term to use for men who are greek with norse heritage, 1 siting of proof of misuse of the word viking. Varangian guard were not a raiding unit, they were personal guardsmen for the emperors, it just so happens that they have descendants that were norsemen, not considered viking, so why use viking?

LOVE THIS MOD i play it with dark ages too please keep it up bro

I attached to the mod's page a new Youtube video.
It's a documentary of roughly 14 minutes about the Viking Harald Hardrada, leader of the Byzantine Varangian Guard

Being western-centric with the term "viking" was accepted and a standard 200 years ago, where danish and swedish nationalism and romantism created the myth of the "viking". Yes, they "created" it. There have never been such a thing as a "Viking". "Viking" only existed to descibe an activity, "men went viking" = men went raiding. And most "Vikings" never used the term anyway...

Thank to modern archeaology we have now a better understanding of what these people really were. Assuming that we still want to use that awful term: "viking", unclear, and refering to false ideas of the past. I prefer myself Northmen, but well...

Finally, I'll quote here for you the rune stone of Dalum where a father mourns the loss of his two sons:
eR:uaþr.tuþr uest : en.anar : austr
(one of them died in the west, the other in the east)

Trying to put such a complex world within modern "boxes" is silly. And above all, History should never be used to support a political agenda or a dirty nationalism.

@zzT06i:TTU3DAzz The word "Rus" comes most probably from the Finnish 'Ruotsi' which refers to Sweden. They were at the origins a group of vikings operating in the east, composed of Swedes, Finns, and Carelians. Even one of their leader, Rurik, was most probably from Carelia.
As for the Varangian guard, its ethnicty has changed a lot during history. The first varangian guard were from northern Europe, and there have been Russians among them, most probably. Later on, after 1066 there were even Anglo-saxons recruited in the Varangian guard.

Anyway, saying that the Varangian guard is not viking is stupid and historically totally false. They were mainly scandinavian until the XIth century. And if you refer to "Vikings" only when these northern Europe men operated in the west, it is also... plain stupid, as they moved all over modern Russia, and were active traders between the Ladoga up to the Volga, and mercenaries in Byzantium, southern Italy, Sicily...

Varangs is not Vikings! they are rus from Kiev!

JFYI I've uploaded a new version of this mod, with small tweaks concerning ennemy archers: I've lowered their ammo amount, forcing them to join melee battle earlier.
So far, after testing, the battles are less boring: waiting for the enemy to engage out defense force for 5+ minutes was ... dull. Seems to be more fluid.

I subbed as soon as I heard the Danheim. I favorited when I saw the comments.

Damn that bomb was MASSIVE

u dropped tha truth bomb draksen

"Russian vikings" were from Sweden/Finland/Carelia. Besides, what's a viking? What's a swede? What's a russian? These concepts didnt exist at that time. Bringing modern days nationalities in those times is the biggest mistake we can make.

When I created the mod I had no idea how much fun I will have with it.
Of course it's easy, cheated, whatever... but damn, if you play with the very hard difficulty, it's so intense. The Sassanid Empire wanted to attack Amida and Edesse, they attacked maybe 15 times, each time I managed to defend, but the last attack was fatal to me: I lost the province! And now they are allied with another persian faction and they start to attack Anatoly!
It's really intense: each turn I have a bit battle :)

Varangian guards was Elite Vikings in service of the eastern roman closest bodyguards...