Turks: Best spear unit is ?

[Shahed]

Hi All !

It's approaching 1170 in my one and only campaign so far, and yeah I'm beginning to look forward to the Mongol and Timurid incursions. So much actually that I think I'll mod them to arrive soon.

From my experience in general, the heavy cavalry charge is invincible. If cavalry get off a straight charge, your infantry is dead no matter what it is. Anyway this thread is not about the charge, so please do NOT post here on that. I'm talking infantry.

What I need to know as Turks is what is the best infantry to employ to pin Mongol cavalry while I use my own cavalry to hit them. Or basically what infantry will hold a bridge etc. I played against Spain in Iberia and 4 units of Merc Spearmen, got WTFPWNEDBBQ'ed by 4 bodyguards crossing the bridge, with 2 infantry following. Then I just made a wide circle let them cross and smashed them with my own cavalry (horse archers).

I would however, like to be able to hold a bridge with infantry.
What did I do wrong ? 4 spear units is not enough ?

I think at the current state of the game, only cavalry can beat other cavalry (support from infantry does ofc help a great deal)

JHI of course can kill cavalry, but still takes a massive 50-60% casualty rate on charge impact. I don't want whole armies of JHI. I like some flavor to it, it would'nt be fun for me to play with a 20 JHI stack.

From the looks of the stats the Dismounted Sipahi Lancers (lol?) are the best spear unit available to the Turks.

What are your thoughts on this ? Any advice/suggestions/remarks most welcome.

Salute !