About a cheap ways to win in Eb online battles

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I pick up an oldschool "Hammer and Anvil" army with Pontos, and I do some battles. I lose to others, but I continue to use them, because it's a good army composition (in my opinion at least). After the 20th defeat I wonder what's the problem? My build is ok, or isn't it? Should I try to adapt to the other players? Nah, I can play my own style with my own units, I can go an all infantry army even with Saba, if I want. Another 20 defeats follow this. Maybe I was wrong, but-but I saw in the movies that frontal assauts are cool so they should work in this videogame too. Same happens. This is cheap, guard mode Romani are just so OP. I should change my army composition, I guess... let's see I don't need this and that, but these cheap AP guys might have some impact on those idle maniacs... oohhhh scary units (even if I dislike them!), a little morale penalty for the enemy is not bad... hmm should I try to outgun them with slingers if I know that they will have Kretans? Naaah, but a few will come handy as arrow fodders. Hmm heavy cavalry I might used them wrong, should I try to charge the enemy when it's in melee instead? Even guard mode won't protect their sorry [Instert flower here and imagine a black hole]. Or should I just go with light cavalry, I saw some quite good ones, maybe I should forget about the very expensive units and just buy cheap chevroned ones? Wow I checked that my Romani opponent has 2k men on large unit size, I guess I should change my tactics too, maybe I shouldn't go with an 1,3k elitist army because the 700 men difference is just too much, let's buy less high-end and more mediums and levies. OOHH BUT NOOO, WHAT HAPPENED WITH MY BEAUTIFUL ARMY? It doesn't look like what I imagined... (after the won battle) but at least can do the job.