Well /his/? What's the answer?
>>351448
The fact that the Vikings did hit and run attacks on comparatively soft targets is a well-known fact.
>>351459
I wish. Plenty of people believe they were good fighters and when confronted with facts result to throwing insults or ''but they were cool'' and I saw the fucking ''cool'' argument so many times it's pretty much scandishits and stormfags equivalent of ''glorious nippon steel''
also
>losing all the time
>cool
>scandifags unironically believe this
>>351448
>Pirate gangs lose to real armies
>People are surprised
>tfw this thread
>>351490
The extent of their exploration was 'cool'
Not Polynesian tier, but still
Not even a scandifag
>>351508
This guy was a pirate and he fucked with the navy later becoming an admiral himself it's just Scandinavians being failures since always
I could pull a list of defeats for any long-running group, and craft an argument that they were bad.
I get that this is just to b8 the /pol/ niggers, but this is /his/ guys. We should be more comprehensive in our understanding of history, and that's recognizing that the Norse achieved a lot of cool things.
Also, there's basically already a thread for this, but maybe this is here since y'all aren't as successful there.
http://boards.4chan.org/his/thread/349137/not-even-soldiers-just-pirates#bottom
Is this the same guy who gets super butthurt about pagans and can't even articulate a response to criticisms beyond
>chopped your tree down lol
>bagans
>claims of larping
this is fucking /his/ not Shadow /pol/, take your anti-historical retardation elsewhere.
The Vikings didn't attack castles because castles need seige equipment to be countered hauling that stuff around in boats is a pain.
In general the medievil times were a point where the high priority targets had huge advanctages. A castle is very easy to defend but hard to invade. From this perspective going after towns and monasteries makes sense. From what I heard the Vikings were so effective at plunder that they are the entire reason castles become such a staple.
The Vikings, being nomads could not use the OP-castle defense as they didn't really settle down very often.
>>351490
its not our faults that you rely on pop culture memes to understand history senpai. read more
>>351648
Well he was essentially the Ottoman navy so hardly a mere "pirate" in that sense
>>352778
He was a pirate at first, he became an Ottoman admiral because he proved himself to be capable.
