In this respect, a long barrow is a long tumulus, usually constructed on top of several burials, such as passage graves. Tumuli are often categorised according to their external apparent shape. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various purposes, may also originally have been a tumulus. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. They won't last long against a cavalry charge or elite infantry though.A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. If they can use all their ammo on cavalry they will shine, and they are still great defensive infantry when they are out of ammo, and they are quite resilient against missile fire. Honorable mention for Saxon heavy skirmishers. Avoid arrows like the plague though, and if they get charged by basically any cavalry it's game over for them. Charge them into basically anything that's already been engaged and watch the enemy melt. Exceptions exist, you may catch an exhausted unit, but it's risky, so only when you are confident.įinally, if you can spare it, keep a few two handed axe units in reserve. Never ever chase horse archers or skirmisher cav with them.
If you can get your cavalry into a fight without getting charged by lancers, always do that. They will do decent in a cav on cav engagement, and headhunt at the right time means they will fight to the death, but this isn't very efficient.
Use them like spears, supporting against cavalry that has charged your lines, and also to charge vulnerable infantry. Saxon heavy cavalry is slow, so keep them behind your lines, they aren't going to catch anything the Huns bring on horseback. Charge them in to support fights against cavalry that have already engaged your line for better results. Mainly keep them on the flanks with a few in reserve behind your shield wall. Also, since spears are awful against any sword infantry they bring I wouldn't get too many. A cavalry charge against spears will still hurt a lot. Spears are good against cavalry, but not as much as in, say, Shogun 2. Exhausted troops are only half as effective as fresh soldiers, they are much slower, and have 50% debuffs on most combat stats. They are less hardy against missiles and cavalry than the Gesithas though, trading for better killing power.įor your infantry, avoid using any ability that raises fatigue unless you absolutely need them to win the fight now. Otherwise, all Nordic heavy infantry are fairly deadly in combat against most Hunnic infantry. Your heavily armored Gesithas in shield block are essentially immune to archer fire from the front and left, and more so in a forest, which will also give them a better chance against cavalry charges. You aren't going to win a skirmish fight, but archers with flaming arrows have a decent chance of being cost effective against horse archers, with enough range to fire from behind a shield wall. Use forests and shield wall as best as you can. Keep in mind that if the dogs die they replenish 100% after every battle, but if the handlers/men die the dogs don't come back until they replenish. I like to deploy warhounds in every little nook and cranny and tree on the map so that I always have them ready for flanking to stopping cavalry. This allows your heavier spearmen to charge in. Any hunnic cavalry who's using skirmish tactics and hit and run is slowed to a halt by warhounds. Warhounds outrun any unit in the game and are extremely cheap to field at 50 upkeep per turn. You have two good things tho warhounds and good spearmen. Your archers and slingers are bad, skirmishers have too short range and all your decent cavalry gets outrun. However when you do eventually get into a fight with the huns (which you will if you go for total domination) you can't straight up duel them. The Huns rarely travel so far northwest from my experience, so you should be relatively safe there. On hard difficulty I'd generally conquer Britain and even sometimes just give up my capital so I have less borders to protect. The Saxon campaign is undoubtedly the hardest campaign I've played so far.
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