Cheap to recruit and equip, scouts are useful for running down fleeing soldiers and scattering archers.
More accustomed to working on foot, Scouts are untrained horsemen and as such not great fighters on horseback. Scouts wear padded or light mail armour and are equipped with a spear or a large axe, as the Danes are wont to do. Cheap to recruit and equip, scouts are useful for running down fleeing soldiers and scattering archers.