Thinking they were just going on a leisurely walk most of the men left their armor back at the ships and we all know what went down at Stamford Bridge when King Harold Godwinson showed up. There is a good explanation for why Harald Hardrada and most of his men were not wearing armor, they had just won the Battle of Fulford and were waiting for hostages to be delivered to them. With regards to mail armor it has been scaled way back to where there will only be a few units that have mostly mail. Our berserker version is similar to how Orm Svarti is portrayed in Viking Conquest if you are familiar with that game. With our design we will have 2 versions with Ulfhednar being a light version with wolf pelts and Berserkers being the heavy version with bear pelts as seen in the preview. With Berserkers appearing in art and written about in the sagas we feel it would be equally as wrong not to include them. While the aim is to be historically actuate there are a few things that we put our own spin on as it really isn't particularly clear.
MOUNT AND BLADE VIKING CONQUEST BERSERKER MOD
We knew that the Berserker unit would probably one of the more controversial units in the mod do to the wide spread of varying opinions.
MOUNT AND BLADE VIKING CONQUEST BERSERKER FULL
Probably the best example for this time period in the 9th century would be the Oseberg tapestry which shows a berserker in full fur armor.Ĭant find the original tapestry image on google but this dude got a tattoo of the exact image: There are some chess pieces depicting berserkers with full chainmail but they are from the 12th century when mail would have been more prevalent. When Harald Hardrada was killed in 1066 he was said to be in a berserker rage without helmet or armour and that was how he was so easily killed. This was called Berserkergang." Edit: Just realized you use this line in your preview lol This is a good line describing the Berserkers from a famous icelandic poet, " His ( Odin 's) men rushed forwards without armour, were as mad as dogs or wolves, bit their shields, and were strong as bears or wild oxen, and killed people at a blow, but neither fire nor iron told upon them. If your going for a historically accurate look you should think about removing all if not most of the chainmail, there is some nice leather armor models available for the vikings that I think would suit this early period better.