I just used an extremely effective way of dealing with early turks. The archer charge A nice wide line of archers backed by some spears and peasants. Flanks covered by camels and Ghulam BG. Make the whole formation move in block against the enemy. Stop, shoot watch them flee.

I had a fun battle where i attacked the turks in Edessa and the Byzantines tried to jump in too, we were all fighting each other. My arming was facing the turks, while the Byzantine were menacingly on my left flank.

I moved forward, and as i got into shooting range my archers were charged by 2 Biz Inf, units. Well, my two camel units routed the Biz Infantry and the 6 star general with them, with the help of some arrows too.

I could tell there were some skirmishes involving biz vs Turks, so i pressed on. Soon they were all fleeing in front of my line. My camel general became an expert attacker and got killing instinct. Nice. The turks are no more. At least for now.