England help.

[Marauder]

Once you get to the middle of the map (SE of Paris I'd say), you can get merc pikemen. They seem to have the best anti-calvary weapons. Its even possible to edit them so they don't switch to their secondary weapon, but that makes them a bit too strong.

I agree with insane, keep your troops still. The merc/miltiia/levy spearmen can all take a charge if stationary and facing the right way. Even heavy horse don't take out too many.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

Fully upgraded levies or spear militia have heavy mail. This means they have almost the same defense as armored spears. If you can get a swordsmith guild asap and upgrade levy spears then they can do the job.

If you want to mod them in the game just add england to this line in th EDB (export_descr_buildings): recruit_pool "Armored Sergeants" 1 0.5 4 0 requires factions { france, hre, milan, venice, papal_states, sicily, Normans, england, }

[oz_wwjd]

About Antwerp,does taking it mean that everyone will fight me for it? Just that in my present campaign Denamrk is using it as a base to launch irritating raid against Bruges and Caen,so I was looking to knock-out that threat ASAP,so I could concentrate on dealing with France and the main Dannish settlements,and I'd hate the HRE and MIlanese to declare war on me now..