Is this a good military tactic?

Is this a good military tactic?

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How the fuck didn't they impale themselves on their own army spears?

What kind of imbecile wrote that shit?

>Jumping in front of your own shield-and-spear wall to face a charging enemy whose momentum will invariably push you back against your own

I'm going to say, tentatively, "no"

no it defeats the purpose of having a wall of soldiers if they just run in front of them. should wait until the front lines impale themselves and crash into the shield guys and they start dying then run in afterwards to clean up.

>have a shield wall with spears
>enemy charging it
>negate your advantage by having tarded elves jumping over your wall

hackson...

god this looks so fucking bad

what the fuck were they thinking?

Laughably bad tactic. But I think the point was to just show how the elves are prideful shitheads that needed to prove they were braver than the dwarves.

All they would have to do is push them back onto their own spears

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it surprises the enemy. They think their about to attack stationary defenses, but then they're fighting swordsmen. It's a good counter offense.

Aren't elves supposed to be god-tier archers? Why not just riddle the fucks with arrows from behind the shield wall?

They should be waiting until the orcs are compressed together between the spears and the ranks behind them.

At that point they'd be too packed together to fight up and the elves can jump from orc shoulder to orc shoulder, cutting off heads.

middle earth elves are orc blenders. there was never any chance of the orcs doing shit to them.

Is this from the new total war game?

if they had let the initial charge hit the shield wall then come down on top of them, then yes, in reality, they would have been pushed back onto the du-orf's spears

You retards don't understand that this whole scene was supposed to reaffirm the competitive nature of elves and dwarves as established in the LOTR series. Ofcourse the smarter move would be to let the charging orcs impale themselves on the dwarves' spears. However, the elves wont let the dwarves get all the credit and honor of winning this battle, so they decide to intervene and thereby save face.

Sorry I didn't realize that since I have a sex life

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You might have a point (as far as it is concerning the retarded elf enclave of Mirkwood, at least) but sadly, the question was "is this a good military tactic" not "is this tactic culturally appropriate for elves while still being cool if idiotic".

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>implying any decent understander of strategy would do this

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no. but it sure is edgy

no, people can't clip through spears.

that's not what that word means

Total War Veteran here:
The logical thing tactic would be to hold the enemy unit with the shieldwall and flank them with the heavy infantry.

>Total War Veteran here:

fuck off americans joined the war at the last minute

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>teenagers thinking they're hardcore cool really comes to mind when thinking of this scene though

aww someone replied :D

Getting raped by your uncle every night hardly constitutes a sex life