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I completely agree with Juzza.

Also I never use the low attack ambidex axemen by themselves as some people seems to, because if you do they won't hit a thing. Instead I let the enemy fight themselves tired first with a small group of shield maidens whom are excellent at this. These troops will hardly kill anything armored with their low strength and their short sword, but they got excellent defense and wield a shield. After a some rounds I throw in the axes, and as the shield maidens now built up some fatigue on the enemy (10 = -1 to defense) my axemen will have a field day. As a bonus the shield maidens will rarely get hit by the throwing axes.
This tactic works quite well against high protection, high defense troops such as knights of this early age.