[thejeff]

I had a lot of trouble with Woodsmen up against crossbows. Fire large monsters avoids most of the standard arrow decoys. You can use giants as decoys, but they're expensive and shielded ones are resource intensive as well.
I've played MA Jotunheim more than late, but the sacreds are the same.

Even with a lesser bless (E4N4?) the Woodsmen make decent low resource troops for early expansion, but you need to have thugs rolling by the time you face anything but indies. I'd research construction first, manually site search and start blood hunting with Skrattis. Blood items are cheap and Skratti werewolves can be effective with just a couple cheap items (Flesh Eaters?). (That's shamelessly stolen from the Baalz Neifelheim guide)