Assassin’s Creed Valhalla brief analysis of the trailer from a historical and logical point of view.

(Before reading, it is recommended to familiarize yourself with the trailer, since the article contains footage from it.)
Many of us have already watched the trailer for the new Ubisoft game – Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. A new setting that has been speculated on for a long time immediately catches your eye. The video itself is quite well done and beautiful from a technical point of view. Many environmental details create a pleasant Scandinavian atmosphere.

The staging of the battles is also a delight. Watching Vikings and Anglo-Saxons hack each other down is a real pleasure.

But is everything so good with this four-minute video?? I’ll try to get to the bottom of all the little flaws that are full of action, and tell you what amused me and my friends so much while watching.

Imagine. You are a medieval barbarian whose life’s work is to rob, kill and trade. You attack another village in order to get supplies and valuables. You kill a bunch of men, but then you see a defenseless woman with a child. Would you stop a friend who is going to kill them?? Quite possible yes. But imagine living in the Middle Ages, in a society where such concepts as mercy and kindness are rarely found in the vocabulary of the average exemplary citizen. Would you spare other people?? After all, they can get to the authorities and inform them about the raid. Then your brethren during the next raid may be waylaid not just by hard workers with scythes and pitchforks, but by real warriors, which is what actually happened later in the plot of the video. Some might say that the government will already know about the attack. And he will be right. But it will find out much later, which is a definite plus. Real Vikings left no witnesses, if possible. This scene is a failure from the point of view of realism, although I can tell why it is needed. We are shown that the hero is actually kind, and we can sympathize with him, and don’t care that he kills innocents left and right, taking their property. He spared a woman and a child, which means he is good)

After another beautiful scene showing the life of the good Vikings, we see the King of England. He signs a decree, presumably about repelling attackers. The wax seal immediately catches your eye. he places it on an incomprehensible piece of paper attached to the document itself. As far as I know (if this is not always the case, then correct me), the seal serves to certify the authenticity of documents and seal them. The seal is placed so that it is impossible to open the letter without damaging it.

Here we see a local servant-sycophant who stands right behind the king. Everything would be fine, but for some reason he makes a strange grimace.

I’m not very good at body language, but even I can see that this is some kind of sly smile of a conspirator. You know, the guy who talked his boss into agreeing to some plan that would ultimately lead to the boss’s overthrow and the sly guy’s subsequent ascension to the throne. But why does our dear friend smile so much?? And there is no answer to this question. The only thing that can be assumed is: "Oh yeah, lie on the man. » “Oh yes, we will begin a set of measures aimed at protecting against intervention from an unidentified floating adversary."This is what I understand, a plan worthy of a sly grin.

Well, let’s move on to the cherry of this action. Battle scene. It all starts as always. Viking longships with beautiful warriors are sailing to an unknown shore. Question one. Why don’t any of them wear a helmet?. In the famous wonderful film “Viking”, helmets were not worn, because in them we would not be able to distinguish the heroes from each other (which is actually not very true, but that’s not what we’re talking about). Here we don’t know anyone, but we see a bunch of smart guys who are going to fight with someone without wearing one of the most important pieces of equipment.

The enemies, oddly enough, wear helmets.
Question two. Where are they all going?? Vikings raided for profit. Here you can see that they are mooring to an empty beach, where nothing but shells and a supply of sand for panties for three years ahead can be found. But perhaps I’m being picky, and the foreign intelligence service of the Viking organized crime group reported to the brethren about the presence of a village in this place, far from the coast. An attentive viewer will say: “Hey, you can actually see the fortress in the background.”. And it’s true, it’s there

but how were they going to storm it, without siege weapons (they were not shown). BUT these are small things. The presence of a fortress also adds questions, but more on that later. It also raises the question of where the British army came from here? They just sat on the shore and waited for the Vikings to arrive here? What if they hadn’t arrived?? What if they decided to rob another village? Unanswered question.
And then something strange begins. We see a huge number of burning arrows in the sky flying towards the heroes. But how did they not notice them?? How did the Anglo-Saxons manage, without lighting fires or other places where an arrow could be set on fire, to make so many shells burn, and even make them invisible, at least in the first half of the flight, because we notice them already high in the sky?

Vikings jump off their ships and rush into battle. My friend immediately said: “Vikings don’t use the top shield wall.”. And indeed. They don’t use the formation – shield wall. And they don’t do any construction at all. Neither they nor their opponents. These are basic things in military tactics. To be built somehow for more effective conduct of military operations. But no. Neither they nor the Anlo-Saxons stand up even in a basic formation in a crowd. They’re all just running at each other in loose rows.

There are a lot of questions about https://bingositesnotongamstop.co.uk/review/madcasino/ military tactics in general. For example, remember the fortress that is visible in the background at the beginning of the battle? Why didn’t the defenders settle there?? After all, it is much more profitable to defend with bows than to go fight in the field. The weakness of this tactic was clearly demonstrated by one of the episodes of the eighth season of Game of Thrones, where a crowd of horsemen rode off to nowhere. You know how it ended. It also raises the question, where is this British cavalry?? Didn’t the king have any extra horses?? Strange. If they had riders, then everything could have ended much better for the defending side, because with a hidden blade, which by the way I don’t really imagine how you can pull it out with one hand, in its new position, it would be difficult to kill a huge horse at full gallop.
And to top it off, for physics lovers.

About 5 seconds of timing pass between these frames, and not much more in reality. Could a solid, wet piece of iron catch fire from 5-6 arrows in less than half a minute?? I highly doubt it.

What’s the end result?? It looks nice, but upon closer inspection it turns out that the product is full of holes. All of them are of course not significant, and I found them more for the sake of laughter than for the sake of hate. But the question still remains, since there is so much historical nonsense in the trailer, what will happen to the game itself?. Although the assassin’s creed series was probably sentenced long ago in the court of realism and verisimilitude. We’ll see. That’s all for today.

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The wax seal immediately catches your eye. he places it on an incomprehensible piece of paper attached to the document itself. As far as I know (if this is not always the case, then correct me), the seal serves to certify the authenticity of documents and seal them. The seal is placed so that it is impossible to open the letter without damaging it.The wax seal immediately catches your eye. he places it on an incomprehensible piece of paper attached to the document itself. As far as I know (if this is not always the case, then correct me), the seal serves to certify the authenticity of documents and seal them. The seal is placed so that it is impossible to open the letter without damaging it.

Seals are used to certify the authenticity of documents. They are placed directly on the front of the document or attached to the document with cord or tape (often colored in the owner’s colors) or a narrow strip cut and folded, but not separated from the document. This allows you to verify authenticity without reusing the seal. Source

Considering that in reality fire arrows were most likely not used, in the trailer 5-6 arrows charged with an incendiary mixture can set fire to a wooden “iron” T-shaped structure for a spectacular shot.

These are the British. What did you get to the bottom of?? They’re gentlemen. They will not hit a person from behind who is burying a comrade. This is not gentlemanly. You are proposing some kind of barbarity. But gentlemen won’t agree to this. Or maybe he is burying during a five o’clock tea party and the British took a break from the battle and went to drink tea. And then a convenient opportunity arose to bury a comrade.

Yes, the Vikings were simply the first to invent outbound tourism, and the trailer simply shows one of the fragments of entertainment – a group of English animators entertaining a group of Scandinavian tourists. Everything is logical)

Exactly! Although I think that this was rather done for the purpose of adding a grain of historical accuracy to the game. As we all know, the Viking raids are nothing more than a historical falsification. Several years ago, historical documents were made public confirming that Viking groups provided humanitarian assistance to the population of Foggy Albion, rescuing women and all valuables from villages after the entire male population died as a result of unknown events.

Let’s try it seriously. I didn’t play Odyssey, I completed Origins and still enjoyed it from the beginning to the very end.
First, I sat down in the interactive tour mode for a good ten hours, during which they very briefly talked about the location of the action and the historical era, about what was taken as a basis, what was transferred in detail, what was invented and for what reasons.
Then, during the course of the game itself, I liked the composition of the narrative, when you are sequentially led through different geographical regions, while simultaneously focusing on different aspects and time periods. T.e., no mess, everything is clear, here is Alexandria, the period of Greek influence, architecture, religion, social and racial stratification, science, etc.d. further the emphasis shifts towards a purely Egyptian theme, necropolises, pantheon, temple complexes, oases and, at the end, the influence of Rome. Everywhere you can easily see points that you can cling to and independently delve into more serious sources, find out other points of view and opinions on some events or phenomena, for example, about coloring options for the Sphinx. And even in isolation from the plot, staging and gameplay, which, whatever one may say, is a matter of taste, Origins allows you to enjoy yourself as if from a historical attraction, an excursion based on famous events. And with all the shortcomings, the series is essentially the only one that provides this kind of experience, and contains so much information background per unit of in-game space.
I don’t know, maybe Odyssey became different, but even before the Origins everything was the same, plus or minus.

The main thing is that when it is activated, a bearded robotic man in an Angel costume does not fly from heaven. I haven’t followed the series for a long time – after the third part, they made some attempts towards creating their own settlements and other crap?

You kill a bunch of men, but then you see a defenseless woman with a child. Would you stop a friend who is going to kill them?? Quite possible yes.

Of course yes. If you kill all women, then there will be no one to rape. The forty-minute rule certainly works, but damn, I went to distant and fucking England, overcoming the difficulties of a sea crossing, not for the sake of forty minutes.
So he spared the woman so that he could rape her later. And the child will make a good slave. A normal, real Viking, careful with property.

For example, remember the fortress that is visible in the background at the beginning of the battle? Why didn’t the defenders settle there??

Because the fortress is not theirs, but the feudal lord’s, and the feudal lord sent them to hell, he said – fuck with your Vikings yourself, you freaks. I’m fine as is))))
And the tactics. no one cares about tactics))

Agree. This is why I wrote the article. Modern trends lead to a deterioration in the quality of content. Even logic goes under the knife for the sake of entertainment.

And the first mission will be about the fact that the good Vikings were attacked by evil English fishermen who wanted to grab all the humanitarian aid for themselves. And now the Vikings are forced to plunder coastal villages in search of lost supplies, because they don’t know where the evil robbers come from. And so there are 40 villages, according to one scenario.

Seriously – those who liked Origins and Odyssey: there are certainly beautiful landscapes there. But this is really enough for you to enjoy?

As far as I understand, the Vikings beat out the strongest warrior as leader, which means it only took one idiot who got hit on the head for everyone to follow his example. It seems to me that Odin wanted all Vikings to die with a good hairstyle, it’s not for nothing that items of cosmetic accessories were found on them, such as a comb and so on.

Wangyu. You laugh, but such a perk will actually be in the leveling tree in the game. At least with this name.

Well, they definitely wouldn’t have set the iron one on fire. It’s clear that everything was done for a spectacular shot. But still it’s like that. I agree with the seal.

There is such a thing, at the DTF there is a guy with the nickname “nachtigalka”, according to eyewitnesses he defended the Odyssey so much that people were simply amazed how such a thing could be invented at all.

I myself didn’t pay much attention either, but there was never any talk about any settlements. There were only ships with customization of appearance. As far as I know, Ubisoft hasn’t made any games where you need to work with a settlement. Maybe the Anno series, but that’s about something else.