Saxons (BI faction)

[Celtic_Punk]

if i learned but one thing from my celt campaign against the saxons. NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A SHEILD WALL!!!!!!

and as the saxons, dont go for numbers, your shieldwall will function superiorly with smaller more elite units, and for defending in seiges, use 2 or 3 units in shield wall to guard your gates

--- = walls/gates the slashes are your units in shield wall

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for a stronger more containing effect place a 3rd unit at the vertex of the triangle in a column formation. this will contain the enemy nothing but boiling oil and arrows to the rear and 3 shield walls with pointy sticks sticking out of them surrounding them.

any cavalry they use to push through will be slaughtered by your 3rd unit in column formation, as the farther they break through the deeper they will become trapped inside your men.

this strategy is made twice as effective with a phalanx formation... (see pict spearmen)