Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-107.77.89.17-20150822021148/@comment-72.172.109.13-20170816180702

it makes sense that the nords would favor the spear. get a shield wall with several layers of spears behind it and they have effectively blockaded a mountain pass into skyrim. having archers/conscripted hunters in the rocks above the pass and nothing is getting through except for an iron clad, fully roofed battering rams, and there is a limit to the size a battering ram can be when moving it large distances. add in the fact that a black ops unit of bosmer is hard to make, and they suck at mountain climbing, and no force in tamriel could break through such a defended mountain pass. although, an army of berserked orcish heavy infantry would make a big dent in such a defense.