Vanilla BI vh/vh

I've progressed to take 8 provinces from the WRE including Ravenna and Mediolanum and its 377ad. Soumar is still alive ( multi-star leader general for Alemanni).

Of course the Vandals have now attacked . My problem is that my army of Upgraded lomabard archers/spearmen occasional alan mercs vet cavalry beserks and 3 units of generals is having trouble with the Vandals.


The weirdest thing is that if I auto-resolve I win and if I fight I get annihilated. Thats pretty unusual as I would normally do much better than an autoresolve.

My normal tactics are to pepper them with my archers, perhaps use a peasant unit as sacrifice to their horse archers. Attack front on with infantry and flank with cavalry if I can't provoke them to attack(which I couldn't get the vandals to do).

BTW I had little trouble with the WRE even wiping out a 1st Cohort( provided I had similar numbers)

I prefer upgraded lombard archers to chosen archers as their missile power is better though are worse at melee, do other people prefer chosen archers?


Also BTW any thoughts on Alemanni dogs and Berserkers welcome. Thes units seem pretty susceptible to missile making them less useful IMHO.

Any advice for dealing with Vandals as Alemanni please.