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Valhalla's Edge

"Vinland Saga" from the historic battles is one of my favorite campaign mission ever! It was such a wonderful mission with fantastical elements. So beautifully recreated in AOE 2.
The sagas report that a considerable number of Vikings were in parties that visited Vinland - which is essentially northern Newfoundland - modern Canada - centuries before Europeans arrived in the new world.
And i was so happy to see a custom campaign based on the same setting, so beautifully made by Filthydelphia. This was fun due to some unique side quests - like finding clues about ancient human activity in Greenland or finding a path to the new world.
The campaign made you work with minuscule amount of resources and recreated the feeling of ever present danger. It made you feel like a small explorer in a giant cold and harsh world, which is how the vikings must have felt when they visited the new world.
I loved it! Hats off to the creator Filthydelphia!

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Interesting map, but I was too easy in standard (bring the hero, kill all the monks and Irish warriors, gather wood in the faroese and done!). Furthermore, several other maps portray the vinland saga and the Viking discovery of Greenland and North America. Since you're following the Vikings series, why not instead focus on Floki escaping Kattegat (eg gather enough people to sail with) and then the colony in Iceland is divided, people get murdered and Vikings fight each other. That would be more interesting imho. ;)

Fun map to explore, but once you make it to Vinland the challenge disappears (On Moderate, at least). It takes a bit of back and forth to get a foothold on Labrador, but once you can get a Barracks there, Skraelings are done for. It's not really necessary for the scenario to beat them, but I did anyway.

2 boats of Nordic axes are enough to get a foothold on Iceland- and then it's same strategy-get a barracks + an archery range on the shore and pump out more m@a until enemies crushed.

Irish on Iceland... okay?!?

As a fan of your work, i will be straight with my feedback.

There is obviously a lot of quality in the technical side of te campaign, but There were issues for me which prevented me from finishing the map.

The campaign has other norms than the usual campaign, which add to the ''realism'' (low pop space, limited resources etc) but instead of adding a challenge they just add to the grind. Grind for resources, grind to kill the enemies. It's not challenging at all, it just takes a lot of time without receiving satisfaction. There is no reward for having all these disabilities rather than the mission being time consuming without a test of skill.

It was too easy, i landed the viking hero on the right side of island and solo picked off all the woad raiders and monks couldn't do anything. Then i just murder the irish with the viking hero and it ended after i built the colony. I wish you kept going but it was really going to be a grind with 20 population and limited resources.

Yeah, on standard difficulty I didn't ever have to find greenland to beat the irish

 OK! I tried again: Iceland was again too easy to settle, but it was fun. Then I sail to Greenland and America, this time: the bears in Greenland! aaaah! they are horrible! :-þ
 I quick abandonned my colony in Greenland and move to Helluland, then Vinland (I kept Markland for later). I appreciate more this time the scenario, but I still am a little bit disappointed as there are no objectives for settling Greenland or America. And the population limit of 20 is quite… quite a punishment: maybe it could be raised to 30, 40 or 50 when settling other lands?

 So, why not having for objectives to settle Iceland, then to discover and settle Greenland, then to bring back wood from Markland to build a larger colony in Iceland?

 Other remarks:
   – why is there only Ingólfr as hero? why not Erik the Red? Leif? (but maybe they appear if the player sails to Greenland; I should give another try to this scenario)
   – Icelanders used to collect wood on coastal shipwreck, maybe you can add some triggers with that;
   – there were horses in Iceland, brought by the settlers, so why the stables are not available? maybe for balancing?
I may seem very negative, but I think that this scenario could be really great with some adjustments; and next to your other scenarios (and not only Ragnar’s raid or Ironside), this one seems… unfinished, like a sketch. But I must say that the map is a great work!
(Sorry if my english is hard to understand, I am not a native speaker.)