After playing six matches online today, I found my weakness to be fighting both heavy cavalry and horse archers. The latter really give me problems.
I play 10,000 florins a player and usually select either the HRE or France as they don't have many bugs and both the French Noble Knights and the Teutonic Knights are badass for my flanking maneuvers.
I'm an aggressive player who doesn't like to sit back and exchange archer fire for 10 mins, so I attack first 90% of the team. This gives me the advantage over my enemy, IMO, because I've been lucky enough to pull off some solid Heavy Cavalry charges on my enemies flanks early on in the fight and surround my opponents army (One battle was a spitting image of Cannae).
But, this is hard to do against an enemy who heavily invests in Horse Archers.
If any of you have any suggestions/comments or simply experiences that would help me fighting the HA, I'd be very grateful.
As for Heavy Cavalry, the main problem I have is getting my anti cavalry units to actually fight them on the open battlefield. Spearmen simply cannot catchup to horses. I've been doing a bait and surround technique where my opponents and my cavalry meet head on and I run spears around the back of his, and that can work but any worthy foe realizes it early or won't let it ever happen twice.
I don't deploy spear walls and wait for him to attack, I am almost always the one on the offensive. So I'm wondering, how would one who plays aggressively utilize his spear infantry against the opponents cavalry?
Thanks in advance.
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