Blood at the Iron Ford
Battlefield: a scorching desert plain at noon · 13 Oct 2026 · Ranked
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.
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.
ROUND 1 OF 3
Lone Sherman rumbles onto a scorching desert plain at noon, turret traversing slowly. Across a scorching desert plain at noon, Viking Warband beat axes against round shields and roar across a scorching desert plain at noon.
ROUND 2 OF 3
Lone Sherman rakes Viking Warband with machine-gun fire. Viking Warband stagger as their loose ranks are punished.
ROUND 3 OF 3
Viking Warband crash into Lone Sherman with bearded axes, hooking shields aside and hacking through. Lone Sherman falls silent, the exhausted crew bailing out.
» The shield wall closes like a fist and Lone Sherman is simply gone.
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 scorching desert plain at noon
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 scorching desert plain at noon for a long time.