Vikings¶

Dive Raze starts in Castle Age — feed them razes first.

Spawn unit	Starting age	Kills to Castle	Kills to Imp	Razes to vill	Cap	Interval
Berserk	Castle	75	500	2	90	8 s

⚡ Quick reference¶

Baseline: free Wheelbarrow + Hand Cart, infantry +20% HP from Feudal, cheaper warships. UU Berserk (20 HP/min regen, 40 with Berserkergang). UTs Chieftains, Berserkergang, Bogsveigar.
Requiem v294: starting age Castle; kills-to-Castle 75; razes-to-vill 2.
CBA role: starts in Castle Age — feed them razes first.
Post-vill: Castle Age Stables → Knights (default meta); Imperial pivot to Arbalester + Bogsveigar + Rams. Berserk spawns become escort/filler only.
Weak vs: Hand Cannoneers, ranged kite.

🏛️ Standard DE profile

Civ bonuses:
Infantry +10%/15%/20% HP (Feudal/Castle/Imperial).
Wheelbarrow and Hand Cart free.
Warships (Longboat) fire faster, cost less (verify).
Docks cost –25%.
Team bonus: Docks +25% HP (or similar; verify current DE).
Unique units:
Castle UU: Berserk (regenerating heavy infantry).
Dock UU: Longboat (multi-projectile warship).
Unique techs:
Castle Age: Chieftains — Infantry deal bonus damage vs. cavalry.
Imperial Age: Berserkergang — Berserks regenerate faster.
Notable missing techs: no Camel line, no Halberdier (has Halb — verify current DE; Vikings have Halb), no Heavy Camel, no Paladin (Cavalier — wait, Vikings have NO Stable UU beyond basic; verify: Vikings have Cavalier but no Paladin), no Bracer, no Plate Barding Armor.
Wall availability: Palisade, Stone, Fortified.

🏰 CBA REQUIEM v294 profile

(v294 numbers: Fandom wiki, retrieved 2026-08-21)

Starting age: Castle (Requiem v294 start table).
Spawn unit: Berserk.
Spawn interval: 8 s per Castle.
Unit cap: 90.
Kills to Castle: 75.
Kills to Imperial: 500.
Razes to first villagers: 2.
Subsequent raze payoff: not listed in the v294 wiki table — ask in the Requiem Discord.
Free starting tech: Squires; Silver unique tech enabled in Imperial Age. Base civ free Wheelbarrow/Hand Cart irrelevant pre-villager.
Elite trigger: silver-UT flips Berserk to Elite Berserk.
Silver-UT unlock: not listed in the v294 wiki table — ask in the Requiem Discord.
Available buildings / disabled units after villagers: standard whitelist. No elephants. BBC availability not listed in the v294 wiki table — ask in the Requiem Discord (Vikings have BBC in DE — verify).

CBA role & archetype

Primary role: Regenerating melee bruiser. Berserk regens between fights, so Viking players can sustain more engagements than any other melee UU civ.
Secondary role: infantry HP bonus scales the entire post-villager comp.

🌅 Opening play (pre-villager)

Minute 0–3: set spawn mid, patrol into melee engagements. Berserk regens out of combat — pull back to regen between fights.
Preferred fights: melee balls, medium-armor targets. Berserk trades well due to HP bonus + regen.
Fights to refuse: mass ranged kite (Berserk regen doesn't help if you never disengage), Onager stacks.

⚔️ Kill accumulation strategy

Safest kill farm: melee UUs (TK, Samurai, Jaguar, Boyar melee).
Avoid feeding: kite civs, Mameluke (anti-cav bonus doesn't hit Berserk, but Mameluke still out-DPSes Berserk in melee).

🏚️ Raze allocation

Standard 1-raze pool. Vikings' infantry HP bonus scales their post-villager Halb/Champion comp strongly.
Feed razes normally.

👷 Post-villager composition

Community expert meta (verified by experienced CBA players, 2026): once production is up, spawns fade — the Berserk is no longer the plan.

Wall order: backwall + front gate.
Castle Age: Stables → Knights. Knights are the best Castle-Age trainable unit in CBA for most civs, Vikings included. Caveat: Vikings lack Bloodlines and Husbandry (verified in the tech summary), so their Knights are below-average — but they are still the correct Castle Age army per expert meta. Build 2+ Stables and mass Knights, with a Barracks for Pike support.
Imperial: pivot to archery. Vikings' late game is their excellent archer line: Arbalester + Bogsveigar (UT: archer-line +1 attack) + Rams. Add Archery Ranges through Castle Age so the pivot is instant at Imperial. Note: no Thumb Ring — mass and the Bogsveigar attack bonus carry the deathball anyway.
Berserk spawns from your pre-placed Castles become escort/filler only — front-line meat for the Arbalester mass and Ram escorts. Do not build your composition around them.
Silver-UT priority: Bogsveigar for the Imperial archer deathball; Berserkergang only upgrades the escort filler.

⚖️ Strong against / Weak against

Strong vs.: melee UUs, cavalry (Chieftains bonus), any comp that trades hits over time.
Weak vs.: mass ranged kite, Onager, Mameluke.

🤝 Team synergies

Best pairs: Britons (Longbow behind Berserk), Mongols (Mangudai behind Berserk), Ethiopians (Shotel dive + Berserk tank).
Conflicts: another slow melee civ (Vikings + Teutons = double slow front with no ranged).

🎮 Key micro rules

⚠️ Common mistakes

Never disengaging — regen is wasted if Berserk dies in every fight.
Massing Berserks/infantry post-villager — the expert meta is Knights in Castle Age, then the Arbalester + Bogsveigar deathball in Imperial; spawned Berserks are escort/filler once production is up.
Skipping the Imperial archery pivot and staying on melee — Viking archers with Bogsveigar are the win condition.

🔒 Version-locked (Requiem v294)

Berserk regen rate has been tuned across DE patches; v294 may pin a specific value.

Appendix C — Group 4 summary table

Civ	Spawn UU	Archetype	Raze priority	Post-vill anchor
Poles	Obuch	Melee dive / anti-armor	Standard	Winged Hussar + Ram
Portuguese	Organ Gun	Ranged siege	Priority	BBC + HC
Romans	Legionary (not listed in the v294 wiki table — ask in the Requiem Discord)	Melee tank / aura	Standard	Scorpion + Legionary
Saracens	Mameluke	Anti-cav / raze	Delayed	Mameluke + CA + BBC
Sicilians	Serjeant	Melee tank	Standard	Serjeant + Cavalier
Slavs	Boyar	Heavy melee	Priority	Boyar + Halb + Onager
Spanish	Conquistador	Mounted range raze	Delayed	Conq + BBC + Paladin
Tatars	Keshik	Mobile self-fund	Standard	Keshik + CA
Teutons	Teutonic Knight	Tank	Priority	TK + Siege Onager
Turks	Janissary	Ranged gunpowder	Priority	Janissary + BBC + Heavy Camel
Vietnamese	Rattan Archer	Anti-archer kite	Standard	Rattan + Imp Skirm + SO
Vikings	Berserk	Regen bruiser	Standard	Knights (Castle) → Arbalester + Bogsveigar + Ram (Imp)

Numeric values are from the Fandom wiki Requiem v294 table (retrieved 2026-08-21); verify against the live mod files before high-stakes tournament use.