Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-38413639-20190722192813/@comment-26553378-20190722205122

He experienced trench warfare first hand... if he intended for trench warfare to exist in middle earth he likely would have included it. Anyway, crossbowers with tower shields generally more realistic for the "time period", archers behind a spear/shield wall perhaps, ... a shield wall at the front that can just go turtle and ignore arrows, etc.

Also, trench, dig 2 blocks down, place slab. crouching should then be able to get you almost entirely covered, else you could go 2 blocks down and hop to pop off shots. Or you could use treasure or other partial blocks to figure out what is the most precise height to pull that off at.

Yeah... in short, without guns, simply building a fortified position such as a, say... small tower, will always be more efficient, especially considering this is minecraft so you can literally have a floating ball of steel which you can smack things with a pike from, or shoot with a bow if you want to waste the ammunition required for it.