Cyber Vikings

HOW IT PLAYS

- Move armies, longboats and catapults up to nine tiles in a straight line. Attack by moving onto an enemy.

- Grab treasure and carry it home to bank gold, then spend it recruiting more armies, boats and catapults.

- Load an army into a longboat, row it over the fjord, and land it behind enemy lines.

- Catapults throw stones up to nine tiles in any straight line. Mind your own side.

- Drinking horns make your Vikings fight harder, but they wander wherever they like for three turns.

- From round 8 winter freezes the water, row by row. Boats are trapped; armies can march across the ice.

- Take a rival's castle and their whole clan joins you, gold and all. Take all three to rule the fjord.

PLAY YOUR WAY

- Against the computer: up to three computer clans.

- Hot-seat: up to four people taking turns on one computer, phone or tablet.

- Online: 2 Player Quick Match with anyone who's looking, or host a game and give a friend your four-letter code. The computer plays the other two clans.

THREE MAPS

- The Fjord: two shores and a fjord between them. The classic.

- Five Isles: every clan on its own island, and a fifth in the middle heaped with treasure. Only longboats get you anywhere, until winter freezes the sea.

- Ring Lake: a lake with an island of gold, and mountains with two narrow passes. March the long way round, or sail straight across.

Pick one, or let the game choose at random.

FEATURES

- Glowing vector graphics: sliding pieces with afterglow trails, sword sparks, arcing catapult stones and Asteroids-style explosions

- An 8-bit chiptune soundtrack, and sound effects in the style of the ZX Spectrum's beeper

- Play in your browser, or on Windows, Linux and Android

- Mouse and keyboard, or touch with pinch-to-zoom

- Saves as you play

INSPIRED BY

Mark Lucas's Viking Raiders (Firebird, 1984) for the ZX Spectrum. Cyber Vikings is a new game, not a copy: all of its graphics, sound and code are its own, and it isn't connected with the original's makers.

Made by 3BL_Indie a small independent studio in County Down, Northern Ireland, and the makers of Forged in Formation: https://gamesdevni.site

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