A couple nights ago I attack a stack of HRE troops on their way to reinforce Nuremberg. Their forces comprised of 2 heavy cavalry units, 4-5 spear militia, 4 crossbow unit, 2-3 light infantry, 1 heavy infantry and a ballista. My forces comprised of 5 longbowmen, 2 Armoured sergeants, 1 Spear militia, 1 dismounted knight, 1/2 stack of hobilars, 2 catapults, a trebuchet and my general. I lucked out and my army were place on a mountain top over looking some nice little valley. The front of the mountain could not be traversed; instead there was a nice winding path to the top.

Normally the HRE units hold their ground and wait for me to attack, but for some reason the AI wanted to climb that mountain and meet my forces head on. Really bad decision.

I have learnt that trebuchets and catapults are pretty accurate when they are firing downward, usually they miss by a mile. There were some devasting hits into some highly concentrated mass of HRE units.

The longbowmen were just cutting them down as they slowly trudged up the mountain side. By the time they reached my infantry line they lines were so thinned out I charged my line and they started to rout en masse.

I think I lost about 14 soldiers and most of those causalities were result of friendly fire. My hobilars and general cleaned up the routing troops. HRE refused to pay the over three thousand ransom and the prisoners were sent to the gallows ( a very disturbing sound effect I might add ).