Spyder's web

[Brandy Blue]

In other words you used the clansmen as a substitute for peasants to garrison. Well, its certainly a viable option. However, I would say that spies can actually help your rush attack. Every clansmen unit that you hold back for garrison duty is temporarily removed from the rush. Put spies in newly aquired provinces and move them forward as your boarders move forward and you avoid that. I'm not really enough of a numbers man or a Viking era player to say which way works better. Maybe using spies a lot only looked better to me because I felt like doing it that way.