Slitherine

ok probably not the easiest ever but looks pretty solid:
Anglo-Danish
Ic,
2 x TC
3 x 6 Huscarls: superior, armoured, undrilled, heavy foot, heavy weapon
3 x 8 select fyrd: average, armoured, undrilled heavy foot, offensive spear
1 x 4 javelinment, average, unprotected, undrilled, light foot,javelins, light spear
1 x ally tc Scots
3 x Scots spear: average, undrilled, protected, medium foot, offensive spear.

any rough going is taken by the scots, if there isn't enough they go to rear support, the fyrd hold the centre of the line, with huscarls on each wing, javelinmen get rear support duty, and generally kept out of the way, against any solid enemy advance and fight with reasonable factors and numbers, against shooty cavalry swing 90 degrees and fight along the table rather than accross it, or castle up, and rely on armour and IC to hold?
not very manouverable, and not that many battle-groups but at least one of the armoured BGs has to go to break the army.

Ben

Looking at Classical greek, which of the following is better:

HF, Armoured, Undrilled, Average

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HF, Protected, Drilled, Superior

To Spartan or not to Spartan that is the question.

Do you want to be reasonably safe & Spartan, or do you like the wilder, chancier side of life with undrilled troops ?

Irmin wrote:To Spartan or not to Spartan that is the question.

If playing against you I'd prefer you didn't bring Spartans.


There wasn't much follow-up on the following suggestion, which actually isn't all that small and with a good troop mix is almost literally point, shoot and watch your flanks. Armoured Heavy Weapons backed by Armoured Crossbow Swordsmen is pretty well rounded, and Knights and Pikes also have punch.

Daisho wrote:Another thought would be Medieval Danish. They are tough as nails, but very small. If you play defensively then they might be good. Once you have the building blocks of Knights then you can play pretty much any knighty army and just add what you need.