Infantry without shields. When to buy? How to use?

[Jack_Trowell]

It depends on what you are facing :

- Versus giants or heavily armored oppononents (thugs ?), the extra damage might be what allow you to do any damage.

- For ulm, you might want to use the heavy infantry with flail : it get 2 attacks, wich can make a very big difference when facing horde of opponents, and with Ulm black armor, event crossbow don't do much damage

But I agree with you : I prefer to use units with shield as my main sqaud, but I also use often other units in flanking position (and yest it help : you shield infantry is the one that usually draw fire, and with a "attack rearmost" order, your flanking unit has a chance to go directly for that nice commander/mage whose death will mean instant rout for the ennemy army