Quote Originally Posted by putts
I suppose you could sick 2 groups of Horse Archers on them. As they persue one group of Archers, the other will keep peppering them.....but eventually they'll probably catch one of them and those poor Horse Archers will be out-matched rather quickly.
I have repeatedly had the same experience. Against heavy cav, the HA sandwich just isn't strong enough. And to add insult to injury (or is it the other way round - english is my fourth language) the AI also always flank my main army while I micromanage the HA's...

/KotR