To see the original battle, weapons, and votes, click here. Ragnar's slighly superior weapons and even his superior armor could not cancel out this great advantage. Arminius used ambush tactics and field fortifications managed to defeat three of Roman legions, the best trained soldiers of his time. Blood flowed profusely and the Viking warrior fell the the ground, dead.Īrminius and the the other Germanic warrior raised their swords in victory.Īrminius took this battle because mainly due to tactics. only the tree, embedding the blade in the wood.Īrminius had jumped to the side and seized his opportunity to thrust his sword right through Ragnar's chest. Ragnar took a mighty vertical swing at Arminius and hit. Ragnar, meanwhile, charged at Arminius, swinging his Dane Axe wildly, forcing Arminus to retreat backwards, cornering him against a tree. The two warriors clashed, blades striking against shields, until the Germanic Warrior found an opening and thrust low, under the Viking's shield, killing him. The Viking tossed away the useless shaft and drew his sword. The Germanic warrior, however, made a powerful slide with his sword, slicing the head off the Viking's spear. Arminus' last soldier faced the last surviving Viking, and raised his shield high, but the Viking suddenly changed the direction of his spear thrust and went low. The Germanic warrior made his first move, throwing his framea at Ragnar, who dodged the spear. Ragnar and the his last surviving soldier faced off against Arminius and his last surviving man. Meanwhile, a Germanic warrior knocked the helmet off a Viking with a spiked club, and then brought the club down on Viking's head, smashing his skull in.Ī Viking came up behind the German club-wielder, however, and thrust his spear through him, impaling through the chest. Ragnar swung his massive Dane Axe, cutting the head off a German tribesman's framea, before decapitating the Germanic warrior as he tried to draw his sword. The two groups of warriors collided in a clash of steel. One of he Vikings was cut down in the charge, however, by plumbata thrown by a German soldier, which caught him in the chest. The Vikings then charged at Arminius and his Germans, swords, spears, and axes in hand. Most of the weapons bounced off the German's shields, but one of the axes caught a Germanic tribesman in the forehead, killing him instantly. Ragnar and the other Vikings shouted with rage, hurling axes and spears at the Germans. Facing them were five Germanic tribemen, led by Arminius. The rest of the Vikings drew their weapons and turned towards the place where the spear had come from. One of Ragnar's men was run through the chest by a thrown framea. Suddenly, a whooshing sound was heard, followed by the screams of a dying man. Ragnar Lodbrok and five Vikings through into a dense forest. Hannibal Barca (by Deathblade 100)īattle vs. In spite of this, Roman Empire would never again attempt to make an attempt to establish a permanent presence in Germania west of the Rhine River. The Romans later retaliated, defeating Arminius in major battles and recapturing two of Rome's legionary eagles, and Arminius became involved in an inter-tribal conflict, being killed under mysterious circumstance in 21 AD. The few survivors, if any, were likely taken into slavery. Varus was not killed in battle but committed suicide by falling on his sword when he realized defeat was certain. The Romans were trapped between the fortifications and the pursuing force of Germans and slaughtered, three legions being completely wiped out and 16,000-20,000 men killed. The Germans then hurled stones, darts, and javelins at the Roman soldiers from the forests above and to either side, before charging in with their swords and framea spears, slaughtering numerous Romans at close range and forcing the rest into a retreat that brought them directly into Germanic field fortifications prepared near Kalkriese Hill. The Roman force under Quintilius Varus was marching along a sunken road in the woods, in the middle of a rainstorm, when Germanic forces felled trees behind them, preventing escape. Knowing of this plan, Arminius hit the Romans exactly where their military tactics were weakest, in the dense Teutoburg forest. In the fall of 9 AD, Rome sent a massive military force into Germania, planning to bring the region under total Roman control. Arminius was born in 17 or 18 BC, and in his younger years was sent to Rome as a tribute, and actually attained Roman citizenship and even petty noble status, training to be a commander in the Roman Army.Īrminius commanded a unit of Roman-Germanic reserves in the Balkans in 4 AD, but in 7 or 8 AD, he returned to Germany. Arminius, also known as Armin or Hermann was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe.
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