Quote Originally Posted by Olaf The Great
Oddly enough I started a saka campaign about an hour ago and this seriously helped me.
Glad to hear it.

Quote Originally Posted by gamegeek2
Remember my guide, shown in my "Of Mail and Men" AAR: Baks for Breakfast, Pahlava for Lunch, World for Dinner.

footarchers: carry rams
HAs: butterflies
enobles: bees
catas: sledgehammers
Those early nobles certainly do sting... I like to keep all cavalry/horse archer armies though, so I don't have rams. Foot archers slow down my movement. The eastern cities are very weakly garrisoned so they're very prone to rebellion if you stick a few spies in there. If they don't rebel, the gates are opened anyhow so you might as well just take it.

Quote Originally Posted by Irishmafia2020
Just try chasing HA's around with phalanxes! I dare You! Oh well, good guide, definately worthy of being Stickied...
That would certainly be a thing I would not like to experience more than once! Generally, if I somehow had all-infantry armies, I'd just make the enemy horse archers expand all their ammo. The AI hardly ever make too many of those cataphract horse archers so I win anyhow.

Quote Originally Posted by woad&fangs
One thing I think you forgot to mention is to use foot archers against enemy horse archers.
Ah yes, right. I did forget. Though, if you follow my guide, you won't ever have a chance to fight much against horse archers.

Quote Originally Posted by Parallel Pain
Wish I had this before I started mine

Of course in VH battles AI archers of any kind will shoot appart your units no matter how well armored they are and whether they are in loose formation or not.
Indeed. VH battle difficulty is just simply a pain. One of the reasons why I would never do such a thing. It's masochism!