The Rout of the Iron Ford
Battlefield: a wide sandy beach at low tide · 10 Oct 2026 · Ranked
Viking Warband
800 Viking raiders with bearded axes, spears and round shields, wearing mail and leather, led by a vanguard of 60 berserkers who fight without armour or fear.
Lone Sherman
One WWII M4 Sherman tank with a 5-man crew, a 75mm gun with 40 shells and two machine guns. It cannot refuel and the crew must eventually rest.
ROUND 1 OF 3
Lone Sherman rumbles onto a wide sandy beach at low tide, turret traversing slowly. Across a wide sandy beach at low tide, Viking Warband lock into a shield wall while the berserkers foam at the front.
ROUND 2 OF 3
Lone Sherman fires high explosive into the thick of Viking Warband. Viking Warband see berserkers cut down still swinging.
ROUND 3 OF 3
Viking Warband crash into Lone Sherman with bearded axes, hooking shields aside and hacking through. Lone Sherman is finally disabled, tracks thrown and ammunition gone.
» A berserker hurls his axe end over end and the last of Lone Sherman goes down.
THE WAR ORACLE'S VERDICT
Lone Sherman should dominate here. Immune to pre-modern weapons is too much for Viking Warband, whose light armour leaves it with very few answers.
- Immune to pre-modern weapons
- Light armour
- The battlefield: a wide sandy beach at low tide
MVP: A one-eyed jarl with two axes
Nobody expected Viking Warband to walk away from this, and few of them did. Lone Sherman will be talking about a wide sandy beach at low tide for a long time.