The Physics of Warfare

I think that's both what skirmishing and what a lot of earlier battles must have looked like. I especially think his archers are going to have had trouble, because shooting at these skirmishers is going to prove fruitless. When these archers approach caesar's ranks and unleash their arrows, i don't think the arrows are going to do anything. These little self bows that the anglo saxon era norman infantry are using are probably as weak as anything the romans effaced. If caesar wants to, he can just have his troops on a command create this formation where they look like a box of shields. It's called the test studo, the tortoise form