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This article is about the technology in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. For the unit in Age of Mythology: Extended Edition, see Bogsveigir. |
Bogsveigar is a technology in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition that is unique to the Vikings and can be researched at the Castle once the Imperial Age is reached. Once researched, it increases the attack of the Archer line and Longboats by +1.
Bogsveigar was introduced with update 81058 and replaced Berserkergang.
Strategy[]
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The lack of Thumb Ring for the Viking Arbalesters was compensated with Bogsveigar, which makes them situationally above average, performing notably better against high-pierce-armor targets.
The Elite Longboat is also better off with this technology against land units, since the extra attack given by this technology simply offsets the attack originally lost by it. The technology is a huge boost to non-Elite Longboats, should the player reach such a situation.
This technology costs 1,150 resources, so it is more expensive than Bracer and Chemistry together, which means it is often the last technology to research for the Vikings.
Comparison of damage per second of Arbalesters[]
| Target armor | Generic |  Vikings
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|---|---|---|
| -3 | 7.65 | 7 |
| -2 | 7.06 | 6.5 |
| -1 | 6.47 | 6 |
| 0 | 5.88 | 5.5 |
| 1 | 5.29 | 5 |
| 2 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| 3 | 4.12 | 4 |
| 4 | 3.53 | 3.5 |
| 5 | 2.94 | 3 |
| 6 | 2.35 | 2.5 |
| 7 | 1.76 | 2 |
| 8 | 1.18 | 1.5 |
| 9 | 0.59 | 1 |
| 10+ | 0.59 | 0.5 |
- As a special case for the Spearman armor class, their pierce armor against Archer line units is three less than the advertised value.
Team bonuses[]
Portuguese: Researching Bogsveigar is 25% faster.
Trivia[]
- The unique technology shares the same name as the Norse unit, Bogsveigir, from Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon.
- A technology with same name and effect can be researched at the Pagan Shrine for 850 food, 500 gold, 8 stone in the Ragnar scenario.
Development[]
Following the removal of Thumb Ring with update 56005 due to fast-Imperial plays, the Vikings were considered a very weak civilization in the late game on land. Using this technology, the developers made their Arbalesters strong again without touching their mid-game.
In preparation for this technology, Elite Longboats lose 1 attack against ships and buildings. The aftermath of this technology is that non-Elite Longboats can have +1 attack and Elite Longboats have +1 attack against land units.
History[]
Bogsveigar means "Bow Swayer", or "Archer", in Old Norse. While bows and arrows may not be weapons that are usually associated with Vikings, literary, pictorial, and archaeological evidence suggest that they played a major role in warfare of the Scandinavian peoples during the early middle ages.
Contemporary Frankish descriptions of the year-long siege of Paris by Vikings during 885 and 886 describe the Viking as not only using sophisticated siege techniques, such as employing mobile siege towers, but also as raining heavy archery fire upon the defenders.
Vikings burials have been found to contain large, classically shaped and proportioned longbows made of yew. One found in a burial at Hedeby in southern Denmark, was six feet three and one-half inches long, and sufficiently well-preserved to allow estimation that its draw weight was probably around one hundred pounds (45 kg).
In 1098 AD, a Viking fleet led by Norwegian King Magnus Barefoot was opposed by a Norman army. A Norman commander, the Earl of Shrewsbury, wearing full mail armor and his shield, rode down along the water's edge to get a better look at the Viking fleet. King Magnus and one of his warriors on his ship shot at his unprotected face; while one arrow struck the nasal bar on the Earl's helm and glanced away, the other hit the Earl squarely in the eye and killed him. Such long range and accurate shooting requires not only archers who are highly skilled, but also bows capable of striking hard at great distance.
Warfare at sea during the Viking Age depended heavily on missile fire. Viking ships were not designed for ramming, a style of naval warfare favoured in the Mediterranean. Instead, the Vikings' ships were used as platforms from which their crews launched heavy volleys of arrow and javelin fire at each other, and upon closing in, engaging in boarding and hand-to-hand combat.
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