writing battle tactics/strategy guide

[caravel]

Those are always the best. So, you too know the feeling after you have beaten off 2100+ enemies, when you are down to 16 very tired Archers with near-empty quivers, one Valour 7 Royal Knight (totally exhausted), 21 Spearmen (exhausted) and 18 Vikings (totally exhausted) - and then the enemy marches in those last 200 Peasants in his reserve...

I remember playing as the Egyptians defending georgia from the mongols in a battle that lasted for over an hour (it could have been longer, I rarely watch the clock) involving about 1500 men on my side and around 5000 on the mongol side, with enemy reinforcements constantly coming on long after mine had dried up. By the end I had a few shattered remnants of Saracen Infantry (had stood their ground to the end and, unlike the missiles and cavalry, had only been relieved once), Nizaris (empty quivers, totally exhausted from charging out of trees and attacking anything that moves and looks vaguely mongolian again and again), a remnant of an AHC unit, and 1 Ghulam bodyguard - the general (), in total about 200 men, no more. I had the nizaris hiding in the woods with the saracens up front, all totally exhausted of course. The hill was thick with corpses. These men had been holding out by the skin of their teeth, facing wave after wave. The last wave had caught them short and almost decimated them. The Nizaris had saved the day with a well timed charge and some serious meleeing with the MHC! Then the MHAs and MWs arrived in large numbers... Luckily they had already suffered such a defeat they these "tail enders" withdrew immediately and my men won the day.