cav. inf. misl.

[|OCS|Virus]

okay, here is my question. what kind of combo do you like to make your units out of? do you like a lot of med. hev. and light cav. or do you like a lot of heavily armoured infintry? Latley I have been fidaling w\ the notion of having all short swords w\ shield and having 2 or 3 units of cav to clean up what I miss.

[Basileus]

well when i play in the eastern part of the map i usualy use lots of light cav and inf with sword..in the west i use pikes and heavy cav..i dont use alot of archers except when i play with the byz and the turks trebezond archers and hybrid archers for the turks

[Cebei]

I use lots of horse archers. Without horse archers I cant use my favorite tactic:attrition. Without them, I try to build as much swiss armored pikemen as possible.

Or for early TUrks, I dont use any foot soldiers. %50 Turcoman horse and Armenian HC. Turcomans (usually most horse archers are) are ideal for splitting-isolating and surrounding. They take advantage of impetuous units as well.

[Kraxis]

That depends on which faction I play with...

Central Catholics and Almohads, I go for heavy troops. Heavy cav and heavy infantry. Brits I go for bows, light cav and anti cav. Danes, shocktroops and the Hungarians heavy and light cav backed up by light inf (yeah ok so that is Persian, so what? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif). Turks is basically only light cav and bow inf (turcomans of both types and futs).
The Byzantines are the only ones I mix rather good, with a tendency to go for heavy inf and heavy cav.

[The Storyteller]

I usually have problems attacking as the English... I favour 4 to 6 units of longbows, 4 to 6 units of spears and 4 units of heavy cavalry. In general, I don't use swordsmen until well into the game, as I rush to upgrade my spears, bows and horse first. This is especially because I have to contend with the problem of my lands being split in the Early Period, and so have to spend extra turns getting strong supply lines to join my kingdom.