The Siege of Wolfsgate
Battlefield: a wide sandy beach at low tide · 8 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.
SEAL Team
16 Navy SEALs with suppressed rifles, night vision, body armour, grenades, 2 recon drones and a sniper team, but limited ammunition and no vehicles or air support.
ROUND 1 OF 4
SEAL Team go dark, launch the drones and map Viking Warband before it knows they are there. Across a wide sandy beach at low tide, Viking Warband beat axes against round shields and roar across a wide sandy beach at low tide.
ROUND 2 OF 4
SEAL Team ambush Viking Warband from three sides, then vanish. Viking Warband stagger as their loose ranks are punished.
ROUND 3 OF 4
SEAL Team ambush Viking Warband from three sides, then vanish. Viking Warband see berserkers cut down still swinging.
ROUND 4 OF 4
Viking Warband crash into SEAL Team with bearded axes, hooking shields aside and hacking through. SEAL Team run out of ammunition and are finally overrun.
» The shield wall closes like a fist and SEAL Team is simply gone.
THE WAR ORACLE'S VERDICT
SEAL Team has a clear edge: elite training and night vision and drones. Viking Warband needs its ferocious berserker vanguard to land early, or light armour will decide it.
- Elite training
- Light armour
- The battlefield: a wide sandy beach at low tide
MVP: The shield wall
Nobody expected Viking Warband to walk away from this, and few of them did. SEAL Team will be talking about a wide sandy beach at low tide for a long time.