Battle In Your Longships With Fjord Serpents – Vikings At War
November 17, 2022 by brennon
Fjord Serpents is a new Historical wargame coming to Kickstarter soon from the folks at Hammer Of The North. In this 10mm scale game, you'll take on the role of Jarls who will have to assemble their fleet and fight for control of the seas around your kingdom.
Fjord Serpents - Vikings At War // Hammer Of The North
As you can see, Fjord Serpents is a very specific style of miniature wargame focusing on the clashes between Jarls aboard their longships. Their focus is on Viking naval battles on a fairly grand scale with crews representing the fighting men on a 1-for-1 basis. Your Leidang crew stands will feature eight figures whilst your elite crew will be six figures per stand. Your heroes and leaders will then just be a single piece on a round base so they stand out.
Fjord Serpents Troops // Hammer Of The North
As well as the awesome-looking troops, the team has also been working away on some stunning historically accurate longships.
Viking Crew Prototypes // Fjord Serpents
Karvi Ship Prototypes // Fjord Serpents
Each of the ships will feature changeable masts allowing you to show what style of movement they have adopted. PLUS, the crew can be moved around and slotted into different areas of the longship to represent where they are fighting in a nicely dynamic way.
Fjord Serpents Ships //Hammer Of The North
As mentioned above, this is a very specific style of Viking combat and it's cool that they have zoned in on something like ship-to-ship battles. Hopefully, this means the game stands out and whilst you could also use the miniatures here for other games, Hammer Of The North has mentioned how the game is as quick and brutal as you'd hope it would be! I am intrigued to see more of the game in action.
Fjord Serpents Painted Ships // Hammer Of The North
More details on the game can be found over on the Fjord Serpents Website where the designers discuss their historical influences and more. You can of course check out their Kickstarter Preview Page where you will be notified of the launch of the project in the coming weeks.
Make sure to let us know what you make of Fjord Serpents from this quick look as I'll be taking a better look at it for sure!
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Where’s the rigging? The bow strings… 10mm? Oh noes!
Yay berserkers all the way for the win. Great looking figures an model’s.
No rigging not interested.
Actually I am mildly curious.
Would you lot stop swearing don’t anger the Wookie.?
If all the little men are carrying their shields for battle, then who has left all those shields in the gunwales?
If one were into rigging, one might as well make all the shields removable and magnetise them so that they may move between the minis and the ships. Anything less would unacceptable 😉
I’ve been waiting for a game like this for ages. Very excited to see where it goes.
Oooooh this looks good.
Nice This passed me by so lovely to see