Talk:Defender/@comment-50.90.16.157-20180206002440

You see them put to use in the last level of the Gallic campaign, they come later on and tank through all your archers. Your melee units fall to the roman archers if you let them build up, and the defenders do well with their support, and even against a berserker, they can at least last a little bit. All in all, the tip in-game is right, (spammable) light units are good for pushing to the base, which I find to be the most important thing, especially with all the special objectives to win for the roman campaign. All in all, though, I mainly spam the full range archer and use the spammed defenders to let them stack up again, and I still use the main 3 units plus the cavalry on the last level.