Total War: Attila – Viking Forefathers Culture Pack (DLC)

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Region	WORLDWIDE
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Total War™: ATTILA – Viking Forefathers Culture Pack

About the DLC:
The Viking Forefathers Culture Pack adds The Norsemen as a new playable culture to Total Warâ„¢: ATTILA. These factions may be used in Single or Multiplayer Campaign modes and Custom and Multiplayer battles.

With the Viking Forefathers at their command, players can marshal the forces of The Geats, The Jutes and The Danes as they launch southwards from their icy homelands on campaigns of looting, raiding and conquest. In the bitter, windswept north, hard winters breed hard men, and Norse warriors are redoubtable in combat on land and sea. To these natural seafarers and expert coastal raiders, the plentiful lands to the south promise glorious victories and great plunder!

Unique Cultural traits
All Norse factions share the Viking Raiders trait, making them expert profiteers from raiding, looting and sacking.

Unique Faction Traits
All Norse factions bear a unique trait which further defines their strengths and play-style in the Grand Campaign.

The Danes: Seaborn
Immune to both high-seas attrition and seasickness, The Danes are able to weather the worst maritime conditions and make full use of their land units in naval conflict.

The Geats: Cold Blood
The hardy Geats are raised in icy climates. As such they benefit from a morale-boost when fighting in winter and are immune to snow attrition.

The Jutes: Despoilers
The Jutes are the ultimate profiteers in war, and gain significant income from razing settlements and destroying units in battle.

Unique mission objectives
Players using Norse factions will receive a unique series of mission objectives over the course of the campaign.

Unique units
Each of the three Norse factions can recruit two unique units in battle:

Geats
Thrall Spears
Plentiful and Inexpensive, Thrall Spears can form a defensive backbone for any army.

Thrall Spearmen
Thrall Spearmen represent a solid anvil for the enemy to spend his cavalry against, and can pack a deadly punch on the charge with their javelins.

Jutes
Huscarls
The fearless Huscarls hurl themselves into battle, carving a gory path through the enemy ranks with their axes.

Royal Huscarls

Disciplined, highly trained and more heavily armoured than other axe units, the Royal Huscarls strike fear – and sharpened steel – into the hearts of their foes.

Danes
The seagoing Danes may recruit the fearsome Drekkar Dragonship manned with two extra varieties of troop options. These rugged warships can withstand much punishment before delivering some of the Viking Forefathers’ most powerful and vicious melee warriors – the Chosen Norse Marauders and the Elite Norse Marauders – into the fray.

Viking Forefathers unit rosters
Alongside elements from the Barbarian battlefield unit roster, The Geats, the Jutes and the Danes can field specific Norse units in battle on land and sea.

Spear infantry:
Thrall Spears (Geats only)
Thrall Spearmen (Geats only)
Nordic Levy
Nordic Spearmen
Elite Nordic Spearmen
Nordic Spearmasters

Pike infantry:
Nordic Pikemen

Melee infantry:
Nordic Band
Nordic Brigade
Wold Coats
Hirdmen
Nordic Warriors
Elite Nordic Warriors
Chosen Warriors

Axe infantry:
Nordic Axe Warband
Huscarls (Jutes only)
Nordic Axe Warriors
Royal Huscarls (Jutes only)
Viking Raiders
Norse Berserkers

Bow infantry:
Nordic Bows

Slingers:
Nordic Hurlers

Skrimishers:
Thrall Skirmishers
Nordic Skrimishers
Nordic Javelinmen
Nordic Brigands

Melee Cavalry:
Nordic Mounted Raiders
Nordic Horse Raiders
Nordic Horse Lords
Viking Raider Cavalry

Skirmisher Cavalry:
Nordic Raiders

Artillery:
Onager
Large Onager

Warhounds:
Warhounds

Naval units

Unique General unit: Viking Captain

Ramming ships:
Strike Liburnian (Nordic Light Bowmen)
Assault Liburnian (Nordic Light Bowmen)

Melee ships:
Snekkja Longship (Nordic Heavy Marauders)

Assault ships:
Drekkar Dragonship (Elite Norse Marauders – Danes only)
Drekkar Dragonship (Nordic Berserker Marauders)
Drekkar Dragonship (Chosen Norse Marauders – Danes only)

Bow Ships:
Skeid longship (Norse Bow Marauders)

Artillery ships:
Artillery Liburnian

Fireships:
Greek Fire Dromonarion

Faction history

The Danes
The Danes, or Dani, have achieved that rarest of marriages: barbarian vigour coupled with civilised sophistication. As the most southerly of the Norse kingdoms, they came into contact with the southern European peoples early on, treating them with an uncharacteristic openness.

After this, many left their lands to seek their fortunes elsewhere, returning with more than just gold. One recognised the potential of the Roman alphabet, adopting it to suit his native tongue and the writing materials available in the north. This led to the creation of the first runic alphabet, which rapidly spread across northern Europe, greatly enhancing the Nordic peoples’ culture and trade, resulting in the creation of objects combining both exotic resources and traditional Nordic styles.

However, neither wealth nor culture has dampened the Dani’s desire for conquest. Many northern tribes plunder foreign shores yet neglect their own