One lesson I learned the hard way in Warband while crashing into packs of Rhodock spearmen and crazy Vaegir axemen is that, if they can time their attacks, whoever's got the longest stick wins. Stay out of slashing attacks range, keep them in front of you, mind your timing and Vlad himself won't have anything on you...
Cheers
Nico
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