Hello,

I'm a little curious what other peoples' experience with the two battles in the demo has been. While both are easy to win, I always seem to lose large numbers of men in them - half my armies or more.

At Pavia, my pikemen seem to stop the cavalry charge at first, but when a second unit of cavalry slam into the front of my already-engaged pikemen, the break through the pike wall and immediately inflict huge casualties. I've tried using halberdiers to help out the pikemen, but they move slowly and seem reluctant to engage. When I give the order to attack, they just stand there for a long time before getting involved in the fight. Meanwhile the pikemen get reduced to less than half their original number by the knights.

At Agincourt, my men initially do well at beating back the French attacks, but inevitably a wave of dismounted chivalric knights overwhelms the defenses on one flank and starts slaughtering my archers. My infantry are simply too few to handle them all. Eventually I win the battle through attrition, but not before I've lost half my men.

What am I missing here?