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Longbows are definately beasts, but what killed me in the battles I faught were the french longbow cavalry. Even targetting an individual unit with every piece of missile fire I had only took out about 10 of their cavalry per volley because they move so darned fast (and less, about 6-8 for their chivalric knights with the armor).
I have family coming into town for the week starting today, but I will make sure I have time available to start on Friday.
And Lucjan, I think that "passive-AI" sequence sounds right. The only time I have seen it is the battle *after* my Scots crushed the one full-stack army that England had. It was a battle of two of my armies versus three of theirs. One of the smaller English armies went straight at me, one tried climbing the hill I was on trying to flank. But the largest of the three hung back and let my bows butcher their spearmen.
And I just had a battle with Egypt (crusading army) in which the Egyptians were definitely not passive, so it's not a universal effect.