The big flaws to this melee heavy set up are it's lack of manouverability and range. This has worked well when severely outnumbered by low quality infantry (as the celts and surrounding tribes tend to field an awfuly lot of that). They could hold the line reasonably well, even under difficult circumstances, and you are FAR less vulnerable to cavalry but remeber you have no good cavalry to make a flanking move of your own, so more often than not I need to focus my strongest melee on one place and chew a hole in their line, then turn along to where the spears are holding to get into the sides of their foes. When I played as the Suebi I used ten spear and two sword set ups (mainly due to their lack of good sword units early on) and found them lacking the kill speed.
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