I'm playing as the Turks for the first full campaign, Early Hard. I had a question about the following scenario. The Byzantines had an archer unit and a byz inf. unit in Antioch (long story how they got it). Anyway, I invade with 8 units of Turcoman horse, figuring that should be more than enough to take them out. WRONG. The AI actually got pretty smart & sneaky. He put both units on top of a steep mesa like hill (steep slopes on all sides) with woods at the top. I couldn't get close enough to fire on the archers without having the BYZ come ambush me in the woods and vice-versa.

Question: other than what I did, which was manpower very expensive (I'm not proud of my tactics, but a win is a win): I just put all my Turcoman on melee with the archers and took the losses from the Byz Inf until his archers routed, then I skirmished the byz Inf. I took horrible losses and 3 units routed, but I did win at the end of the day. Other than "Bring more appropriate troops next time" does anyone have any suggestions for what I could have done differently?