Nah. You still lose, Ruthven. Mongols were masters of setting ambushes and skirmishing. As they are also in light armour, and had capable ground troops, they would ambush the Viking group over and over. In close quarters combat, the Mongols were assuredly lose. But this is assuming that the Mongols in question are silly enough to let the heavily armoured troops carrying large swords and axes get close enough to force them to draw their own sabres. Of course, more would be slain in such conditions; the Mongols would suffer more from Viking throwing and ranged weapons, and the slower Mongols would be caught and killed by the Vikings. But on the whole, the Mongols would be able to kill the Vikings by sheer attrition. It takes a lot of energy to run after someone in silks, leathers, and light armour, especially when you're in a heavy hauberk and carrying a large weapon, shield, and probably a spear or backup weapon. Also, with the ambush tactics, the Vikings would be taking arrows in the back and such. Really, by the time that the Mongols did run out of arrows, they would probably be able to overwhelm the few surviving Vikings by force of numbers. Also, a forest that thick is just another advantage. Harder to see the Mongols and harder to give chase.
Tiberius Decimus Maximus said:
Yeah yeah yeah, that example was just for a mongol vs. viking battle in M&B. I did say it probably wouldn't work in the RL. But sense to maximise the effect of their arrow strom, they would more likely clump together... but still. Hard to hit someone 100 yards away with a throwing weapon
No. Mongols never clumped together. That was the English, using
foot archers. The Mongols rode in circles and fired arrows while moving sideways to their target. Since they were neither riding towards nor away from their targets, they were bloody hard to hit.