I thought that I'd have a go plaing the french on High/normal.

the problem that I'm facing is that the swiss want burgandy. I keep getting hit by attacks of swiss armoured pikemen, with +2 armour upgrades.

The first attack I defeated with losses of 2.5 times the number of pikemen that I killed, the second I won but cost me 689 men, compared to around 250 dead pikes, and the 3rd I lost - the pikes formed into a line and charged - within seconds my entire army was legging it ...

Also, I managed to cut off the swiss king (armoured pikeman). For over 15 minutes he held off my general's unit of chiv. MAA ,(he killed around 10) 100 peasants (he killed 32 of them) and a depleted unit of Royal knights (he killed 1)

When almost all the other troops were dead he ran away, but managed to outpace my cav. Even withdrawing the knights, forming them into a wedge and repeatedly charging made no difference.

How do I kill the SOB?

Tactics tried so far:

halbs in the centre, CMAA and archers to flank
C. sgts in centre, loads of archers and royal knights to flank/charge rear
pav arbs on flanks, longbows in centre with CMAA