New Year is coming very soon and Appirits has just created a New Year Wishlist event to treat their players in Einherjar – The Viking's Blood, the web game combining RPG and turn-base elements. The event will take place on their forum and Facebook page to raise the chance of players to win their wishlists and will end on 2 January 2013 (GMT+8).

The year end is coming soon and Appirits is about to release their latest updates for Einherjar – The Viking's Blood as a gift for their players. After the weekly maintenance on 19 December 2012 (SGT or GMT+8) players will see the below updates which are implemented for enhancing their Einherjar adventure:

- Max level up to 50 (lv.45 still allows soul sacrifice as before)

- Stats of all Jobs raised

- Lord house's max level increased to lv.7

- Units at lv.30 or below still can get exp from harvesting

And to mark this occasion, there will be mini event with a gift of 2 Devil Stone (valuable materials for upgrading houses). Players only need to become one of 10 FIRST players who post a screenshot of their lv-50 unit on Einherjar Facebook page's wall. The event will end on the game's weekly maintenance on 26 December 2012.

Link to Einherjar's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/eneinherjar

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About Einherjar: Einherjar – The Viking’s Blood (http://www.ein-herjar.com) is a browser-based game combining smooth turn-based tactic and RPG elements that let players start as Viking leaders and strengthen their Viking clans. Players must train their armies through numerous battles and master tactics for each type of map to subjugate their opponents and forge a vast Viking empire!

Website: www.ein-herjar.com

Facebook: facebook.com/eneinherjar

Twitter: twitter.com/einherjar2012

Google Plus: gplus.to/Einherjar

About Appirits:

Appirits (formerly known as KBMJ) is a corporation specialized in developing Internet systems and services. Appirits has participated in the web game market since 2010 and is creating many new games with nearly 11 years of experience in the web industry.

Website: http://www.appirits.com/en/

Address: DAIKANYAMA CA Bldg. 1F, 2-20-3, EBISUNISHI, SHIBUYAKU, TOKYO, 150-0021, JAPAN

Tel: +81-3-6696-1207

Contact info: Jimmy Tran

Appirits Games Marketing Division, Appirits Inc.

Email: eneinherjar@appirits.com

Einherjar – The Viking’s Blood is a free-to-play browser-based game mixed with turn-based tactic and role-playing elements. Set in the backdrop of conquest and exploration around the 10^th century, it casts players in the role of Viking leaders who will build home and join wars for growth. Generally, it is built on the basis of RTS but designed with turn-based battles and more details such as aging units, production of various goods, cold sleep, marriage system and so on.

Einherjar – The Viking’s Blood is extremely slow, if not accelerated by real money. Have you ever upgraded a structure from Lv. 1 to Lv. 1.1? Honestly, it is the first game that seems to have pushed slow-pace to the extremity. To level up the Lordhouse from Lv. 1 to Lv. 2, you have to go through 10 phases, five minutes each. In the very beginning, you can but follow the quest line, one quest at a time. Only when you finish one task can you unlock the next.

The entire gameplay simulates real life more than any other strategy game does to certain degree. In it, you will need to make logs into wood or ores to stone; you can ‘sometimes’ collect stone ores while quarrying, or ‘occasionally’ catch bears while hunting; and you need to dispatch units with specific attribute such as x amount of intelligence to construct certain buildings. Besides, your military units will grow and age – those below 12 years old can’t make expedition; those grown up can marry and give birth to baby; and all units grow to learn new skills while aging makes them weak with reduced stats starting from age 30. The aging system is interesting but vague – there is no clear explanation about how the unit can be one year older.

You can choose your character out of three weapon-locked avatars, Axe, Sword or Spear. Along with it is the triangle relationship of strength and weakness – Axe beats Spear, Spear beats Sword and Sword beats Axe. This is the basic factor you need to consider in deployment of units in turn-based battles. As you move on, you can also get the other three class types, including Sister (use recovery magic), Half Elf (ranged spellcaster),  Archer, Guard and Dark Elf,  each of which can only be recruited with special items such as Gospel and Yggdrasill Branch dropped by rare monsters. So to build up a strong army is slow and requires grinding a lot in the wild. And the units can be lost forever if their Life Points are drained to zero in battles.

Once you have a group of units (old enough to explore), you can take them into battles against NPC opponents firstly. Such kind of quests are offered in the bar of Hedeby, which may send you to defeat Ragnar- the corpse manipulator if you have met the quest condition of having the Book of Necromancer. 20 days’ travel? How long is that in real life? More than an hour; of that, I’m sure of. Again, the slowness beings to dampen the playing enthusiasm and the battle morale.

Also in Hedeby, you can find the market, guild and arena, which are self-explanatory of their function. Besides, you can also combine collected materials to craft new items which allow you to increase stats, boost HP or unlock a new skill to weapon. The marriage system allows units above 15 years old to marry and give birth to children who have a chance to inherit the Viking blood and learn advanced skills earlier; and the Cold Sleep system allows you to preserve the temporarily unused units, but requires 300 Power, the premium currency, for 30 days. Money can also buy in-game advantages such as double EX, double drop rate and fast forward one year, etc..

Einherjar – The Viking’s Blood has traditional strategy gameplay that digs deep to details and reveals of rich contents over time. However, it is highly possible that many players will leave the game and never return before they can discover what’s stored in the gameplay due to its unreasonable snail pace.

During the event's period, if players can summon a hero and train him or her to level 20, they will be rewarded 1 Vahalla God Proof + 1 Elf Jadeite + 1 Mithril Ring for each qualified hero after the event's end date. And the list of accepted heroes for this event is as follows: Elise, Daysie, Phaye, Egil, Miriel, Feaglin, Gallahad, Priscilla, Vali, Jin, Veronica, Elmyr, Leia.

Besides, in order to bring players more chances of recruiting those elite warriors, the summon rate will be raised by 30%! And in case they have run out of space for their warriors, there is no need to worry because the Power cost for using the Cold Sleep function will be reduced by 50% during this event.

Cold Sleep is a Power-consumed function used to put an active unit into ice coffin to have place for other new units.

Appirits suggests that if players put time to train those heroes, they will certainly have much advantage in the upcoming PvP tournament which has been announced recently on the game's official site at http://www.ein-herjar.com/website/newsdetail.php?nid=249.

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About Einherjar: Einherjar – The Viking’s Blood is a browser-based game combining smooth turn-based tactic and RPG elements that let players start as Viking leaders and strengthen their Viking clans. Players must train their armies through numerous battles and master tactics for each type of map to subjugate their opponents and forge a vast Viking empire!

Website: www.ein-herjar.com

Facebook: facebook.com/eneinherjar

Twitter: twitter.com/einherjar2012

Google Plus: gplus.to/Einherjar

About Appirits:

Appirits (formerly known as KBMJ) is a corporation specialized in developing Internet systems and services. Appirits has participated in the web game market since 2010 and is creating many new games with nearly 11 years of experience in the web industry.

Website: http://www.appirits.com/en/

Address: DAIKANYAMA CA Bldg. 1F, 2-20-3, EBISUNISHI, SHIBUYAKU, TOKYO, 150-0021, JAPAN

Tel: +81-3-6696-1207

Contact info: Jimmy Tran

Appirits Games Marketing Division, Appirits Inc.

Email: eneinherjar@appirits.com

Einherjar – The Viking’s Blood is a free-to-play browser-based game mixed with turn-based tactic and role-playing elements. Set in the backdrop of conquest and exploration around the 10th century, it casts players in the role of Viking leaders who will build home and join wars for growth. Generally, it is built on the basis of RTS but designed with turn-based battles and more details such as aging units, production of various goods, cold sleep, marriage system and so on.




Einherjar – The Viking’s Blood is extremely slow, if not accelerated by real money. Have you ever upgraded a structure from Lv. 1 to Lv. 1.1? Honestly, it is the first game that seems to have pushed slow-pace to the extremity. To level up the Lordhouse from Lv. 1 to Lv. 2, you have to go through 10 phases, five minutes each. In the very beginning, you can but follow the quest line, one quest at a time. Only when you finish one task can you unlock the next.

The entire gameplay simulates real life more than any other strategy game does to certain degree. In it, you will need to make logs into wood or ores to stone; you can ‘sometimes’ collect stone ores while quarrying, or ‘occasionally’ catch bears while hunting; and you need to dispatch units with specific attribute such as x amount of intelligence to construct certain buildings. Besides, your military units will grow and age – those below 12 years old can’t make expedition; those grown up can marry and give birth to baby; and all units grow to learn new skills while aging makes them weak with reduced stats starting from age 30. The aging system is interesting but vague – there is no clear explanation about how the unit can be one year older.

You can choose your character out of three weapon-locked avatars, Axe, Sword or Spear. Along with it is the triangle relationship of strength and weakness – Axe beats Spear, Spear beats Sword and Sword beats Axe. This is the basic factor you need to consider in deployment of units in turn-based battles. As you move on, you can also get the other three class types, including Sister (use recovery magic), Half Elf (ranged spellcaster), Archer, Guard and Dark Elf, each of which can only be recruited with special items such as Gospel and Yggdrasill Branch dropped by rare monsters. So to build up a strong army is slow and requires grinding a lot in the wild. And the units can be lost forever if their Life Points are drained to zero in battles.

Once you have a group of units (old enough to explore), you can take them into battles against NPC opponents firstly. Such kind of quests are offered in the bar of Hedeby, which may send you to defeat Ragnar- the corpse manipulator if you have met the quest condition of having the Book of Necromancer. 20 days’ travel? How long is that in real life? More than an hour; of that, I’m sure of. Again, the slowness beings to dampen the playing enthusiasm and the battle morale.

Also in Hedeby, you can find the market, guild and arena, which are self-explanatory of their function. Besides, you can also combine collected materials to craft new items which allow you to increase stats, boost HP or unlock a new skill to weapon. The marriage system allows units above 15 years old to marry and give birth to children who have a chance to inherit the Viking blood and learn advanced skills earlier; and the Cold Sleep system allows you to preserve the temporarily unused units, but requires 300 Power, the premium currency, for 30 days. Money can also buy in-game advantages such as double EX, double drop rate and fast forward one year, etc.

Einherjar – The Viking’s Blood has traditional strategy gameplay that digs deep to details and reveals of rich contents over time. However, it is highly possible that many players will leave the game and never return before they can discover what’s stored in the gameplay due to its unreasonable snail pace.