: You could replace bowmen with spearmen and flame arrows
: with guys-on-foot-lighting-the-brush-on-fire if you
: want, and it works just the same. Point is, there's
: burning all over the place (which won't last long out
: there in rainy old Gower) which forces the Myrkridia
: into specific routes, and then Connacht is at the main
: choke point holding them off best he can, while other
: men throw ranged weapons of some sort at whatever
: Myrkridia they can manage.
That makes sense. I'd go for spearmen, then...it would make a clear distinction between the "professional" (and thus formally trained and equiped) and the "rugged 'barbarians'", with cruder equipment (Connacht is using an axe, rather than a sword, for example).
Seraph