Danes Melee Ship

Drekkar Dragonship - Elite Norse Marauders

The drekkar or 'dragon ship' takes its name from the detailed carvings that decorated its prow. Adorned with dragons or snakes, it was designed to ward off the terrifying sea creatures that many people believed inhabited the dark places of the oceans - creatures like the kraken, a terrifying giant squid that could pull whole ships down to the depths, or the undead draugen. These reanimated corpses were men lost at sea that legend states appear during storms and on rough seas to sink boats. Some say that they could alter their size to monstrous proportions, others that they were covered in seaweed or were in fact headless.

(Elite Norse Marauders)
Naval warfare in the ancient world was just another way for infantry to fight one another. The earliest documented naval battles are those of ancient China, 'grapple and hook' battles where boarding operations and close-quarters combat decided the victor. During the Second Punic War, Rome famously broke Carthage's mastery of the waves by creating the 'corvus' - a bridge that allowed its soldiers to board and fight. The distinction, then, in antiquity, between fighting on land and at sea was small, yet chiefly a matter of 'sea legs' - maintaining balance whilst toppling your opponent.

Unit Name Drekkar Dragonship - Elite Norse Marauders

Main Unit Key att_shp_vik_elite_norse_lon_heavy

Land Unit Key att_mar_nor_elite_norse_marauders

Naval Unit Key att_lon_heavy_mel_nor

Soldiers 132

Category Light Ship

Class Melee Ship

Custom Battle Cost 725

Recruitment Cost 725

Upkeep Cost 375

Hull Strength 2000

└ Ship att_shp_heavy_longship_melee

Speed 6

Melee Attack 52

Melee Damage 56

├ Melee Weapon att_dane_axe

├ Melee Base Damage 40

├ Armour-piercing Damage 16

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Attack Against Cavalry 0

├ Attack Against Elephants 0

└ Attack Against Infantry 20

Charge Bonus 87

Melee Defence 12

├ Base Defence 12

├ Shield att_none

└ Shield Defence 0

Armour 23

├ Armour att_mail

├ Armour Defence 23

└ Shield Armour 0

Health 99

├ Man Entity att_infantry_medium

├ Man Health 90

└ Bonus Hit Points 9

Morale 54

Abilities

• Douse Fire
  Sacrifice your ship's mobility for a short time to focus effort on putting out the blaze.
• Use the Whip
  Improved defence and fatigue resistance for a short time at the cost of overexertion.

Attributes

• Resistant to Fatigue
  Fatigue has less of an effect on this unit.
• Hide (forest)
  This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
• Scare (everyone)
  This unit frightens all enemy units.
• Immune to Fear
  This unit is immune to the fear effects of scary units.

Strengths & Weaknesses

No Strengths and Weaknesses

Requires Buildings
Lv. 0	Military Wharf (att_bld_all_resources_port_military_3) Level 3 Military Port (att_bld_all_resources_port_military_4) Level 4

Faction Availability
Grand Campaign	Danes Danish Separatists