I've been very successful with the following as Italians
General - Feudal Knights
Mounted Xbox x3
3 Italian Infantry
3 Order of Foot
2 Feudal MAA
2 Chivalric Knights
2 Cavalry - light to medium

Italian Inf and OOF in front and flanks with MAA and Knights behind to exploit openings and do the flanking.

Xbow to soften them up and later to exploit flanks and rears as well as to chase routing units.

Cavalry to chase missle units away (hold formation!) and to counter other cavalry.

General held in reserve till needed.

Most valor on General, none on xbowmen and rest spread evenly as possible.

Army works well both in attack and defense.

Lately I've been taking no missle units and replacing those units with more cav and one or two foot units. Makes a great attack army that way.

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DragonCat
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