why, they were all raiding pillaging bands who practiced slavery on their neighbors and called them mean names.

the only difference between the germanic speakers who moved into the roman provinces of britannia found no urbanized tax base they needed to integrate with. that’s why former roman provincials in Gaul or Hispania or Italy kept their language & the barbarian kingdoms were latinized, where the romano-britons simply became english—taxes and cities.

Roman british society completely collapsed under the economic pressure of roman withdrawal and a devastating plague; Saxons didnt overrun the walls of Londinium, it was abandoned.

sure i have favorite factions in arthurian total war but im obliged to be somewhat evenhanded on account of my education or whatever