Unit list:
Ceorl Archers
Missile - Light - Bow+Axe
Ceorl aArchers are equipped with a bow and padded armour and can be drawn from any part of Northern England, although most come from the peasant class. For melee combat they are armed with an axe.
Ceorl Archers are equipped with a basic bow, light armour and an axe.
Attack: 4 (AP)
Defence: 3
Charge: 2
Fyrdsmen
Spear - Light - Spear+Shields
Fyrdsmen are lightly armoured warriors. Armed with a spear and only lightly armoured with a shield these spearmen must rely on bravery and cunning to survive.
Fyrdsmen are armed with a spear, light armour, and shield.
Attack: 3
Defence: 9
Charge: 2
Duguthas
Spear - Heavy - Spear+Shields
If a Duguthas wasn’t killed or crippled before he gained some experience in the field he might find himself in the service of a chief or elder and rewarded with training and better equipment. He would be expected to live by the sword, functioning as civil-police, border-guards, tax-collectors, and even raiders. Hardened by years of violence, they were valuable men and intensely loyal to both leader and land.
Servants of the King or nobility; these troops are equipped with a spear, shield, and mail armour.
Attack: 6
Defence: 15
Charge: 3
Ealdorman
Spear - Heavy - Spear+Shields
Eoldermens are regional governors who rule the various English regions on behalf of the king. They are well equipped with long spears, large shields and mail armour.
Regional Governors protected by a large shield and mail, and are armed with spears.
Attack: 7
Defence: 18
Charge: 4
Scipflotan
Infantry - Light - Axe+Shields
These wild and hardy warriors live for battle. Armed with an axe and light armour, these saxon men an intimidating prospect on the battlefield.
These Saxon warriors are armed with axes, and protected by light armour and shields.
Attack: 5
Defence: 11
Charge: 5
Butseacarls
Infantry - Light, Heavy - Axe+Shields
Butseacarls are Huscarl mercenaries that fight equally well on land or sea. Brave and fierce; with their axes, mail, and shields they make excellent infantry.
Danish sea mercenaries that carry an axe and shield.
Attack: 7
Defence: 16
Charge: 6
Thegn
Infantry - Heavy - Sword+Shields
A Thegn is the servant of the King or high ranking nobility. Able to afford good armour and swords, they can punish most other infantry.
Servants of the King or high ranking nobility able to afford good armour and swords, they can punish most other infantry.
Attack: 8
Defence: 15
Charge: 4
Saxon Huscarls
Infantry - Heavy - Two handed axe+Shields
These Axe-wielding Saxons are an elite body of professional troops loyal to the Saxon royal family. Armed with a two-handed axe and mail they present stiff opposition to all who would invade England.
Formidable Saxon warriors armed with two-handed axes and protected by mail armour.
Attack: 8
Defence: 21
Charge: 6
Heorthgeneats
Infantry - Heavy - Two handed Axe+Shields
To be in the household guard of an Atheling did not mean you were the best warrior around, only that you were dutybound to reflect your leader’s standing. They were trusted men, some related by blood or marriage and some actual champions, others just old friends. Their equipment and backgrounds were varied and depending on the man whom they served, rewards were not always rich and glorious. But in standing closest to an Atheling in the battle line, nothing else mattered. They may not be as fine and noble as Gesithas and other Atheling units but in serving a lord of Atheling blood it was not expected. It was only expected that a hearthgeneat would live and die by his lord’s side. As the poet in the Battle of Maldon puts it so well: “Mind shall be mightier, heart the harder, courage the keener, though our strength fails us. Here lies our leader, dead in the dust. He who now longs to flee will lament forever.”
Bodyguards of a general.
Attack: 9
Defence: 24
Charge: 7
Aethelingas
Cavalry - Heavy - Sword+Shields
These Sword-wielding Saxons are an elite body of professional troops loyal to the Saxon royal family. Armed with a sword, a shield, and mail they present stiff opposition to all who would invade England.
Formidable Saxon cavalry warriors armed with a sword and a shield, and protected by mail armour.
Attack: 9
Defence: 17
Charge: 9
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