Golden Horde!

[HopAlongBunny]

So to quickly summarise what has been going on in the past few pages in this thread:
1) I claimed that when facing a cavalry-heavy army, Halberdiers are the way to go and Chivalric Sergeants/Saracen Infantry/Armoured Spearmen are redundant compared to Halberdiers
2) I was proven wrong as CS/SI/AS were shown to have more staying power vs cavalry, due to slower exhaustion, better defense vs. cavalry, and higher numbers
3) I still insist that this staying power can only be used meaningfully to protect Arbalesters, and if you are not heavy on Arbalesters, then Halberdiers are better.

Okies.

Provided the Horde engages you (defending) and does not sit back and pepper you with arrows, a Halb set up might work; I have never tried that since it doesn't fit my style. Backed up with cav, it might work as long as you have a means to make the MHA rout/retreat. You could use cav to herd the Skirmishing MHA and infantry into the Halbs.

Much the same on attack; but difficult to do w/o exhausting your forces.

So they kill faster...do they kill fast enough to cause a rout before they break? Will they exit the battlefield fast enough to have fresh ones for the next wave?

ps: wb Glenn!