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Not born into leadership. They’ve had to earn it through blood, sweat and steel. To be a Warlord means a life of service to their people. Their shield protects those who cannot fight—their axe will cut down those who would attempt to cause their people harm. Their fighting style is simple yet brutal, being feared by many through their enormous muscles and overwhelming tattoos. You will always find them leading the charge.
Stats:
Trained at : only nordic hall
Cost: 7
Hitpoints: 28
Attack: 12
Speed: 3
Armor: 4/4
Sight: 5
Passive Effects:
High morale - 1+ att , 1/1+ armor 4 aura range
Low Morale - 1- att 1/1- armor 4 aura range
Active ability:
Dismiss propaganda
Promote loyalty
Spell resist: 100%
Heal bonus: 1.5
Bonuses:
50% Archers, Medium foot melee, Light foot melee.
100% Buildings, Siege Machines, Ships
150% Fortifications, Armoured Siege machines
500% Mega Buildings, Great Ships

Unit description : wise and strong, feared by its enemies, Viking Warlords are great fearless leaders of the Vikings.

I hope someone will reply

Shouldnt be mounted, they wouldnt bring horses on raids, or even raise them at home most likely.

You really want to push Norse as a true archetype lol.

I too feel like it should be foot unit.
The same stats (only speed lowered to 3), bonuses could be copied from foot knight. Should be balanced then.

Okay changing stats

The img in my mind is a tall large viking with a raven or dragon carved into its shield wearing chain mail and a horned helmet with a short sword or an axe .

Since they have leadership should they have - Boost spell resistance and dismiss propaganda like the centurion ?

How's this endru?

Since its a heavy unit and all maybe a heal bonus of 2 ?

. The thing you said in the first part of the post sounds like much better description material than just "great buffers and debuffers"

But most of that description came from a wiki so I didn't include it n the unit description I just replaced various words , so it wouldn't be a copyright or something . I guess its fine , let's just use that.

Here's from the original overview from a intresting wiki.
"Not born into leadership. They’ve had to earn it through blood, sweat and steel. To be a Warlord means a life of service to their people. Their shield protects those who cannot fight—their sword will cut down those who would attempt to cause their people harm. Their fighting style is simple yet brutal. You will always find them leading the charge."

I guess everything is ready?
Should I still add dismiss propaganda and boost spell resistance as an ability?

Added teamcolored cape + a bit of shading .

Full teamcolored cape.
I hope it looks good in-game.

Good image.
Of course he will have dismiss propaganda and promote loyalty - I'll set it's power at the same level as komtur, centurion and crusade leader.
1.5 is enough, as he is mainly a leader - just the fact that he has healing bonus over 1 gives him advantage.
So we can set this as accepted - I am putting it on the todo list.

What, thanks!

can't wait to see this unit in my favorite faction .

i was not really satisfied with the shield of Viking Warlord so i replaced it. And i did a couple of slight changes.

@Endru1241

i think being melee foot is a disadvantage. Cavalry and cheap ranged units will easily decimate him in a few hits. I've changed stats to what i feel is best. But maybe it won't be changed as it is already in to-do list. I just feel the current stats are weak.