I recently started a new campaign with the Danes (my last campaign with the English kept crashing). I took over Sweden (the enemy retreated to Norway), and a few turns later I decided this should be mine as well. First time I attacked I brought a bad general (gluttony, etc). Reloaded and hit bad weather. Came the last time, thought, okay, good weather 420 men (240 archers, 100 peasants, 60 vikings, and 20 royal knights) to 360 (all vikings). Battle started off well, shooting up some vikings. One stack finally got closer (whittled down to 37 or so) and attacks. I have 100 peasants, 60 vikings, and my archers who were out of ammo attack. What happens? My vikes get slaughtered and rout, the peasants take heavy losses (down to 23) and rout, and some of the archers start routing beofre even seeing any action. Gah !

Maybe these guys are too tough, though the AI general didn't have so many stars!

Any ideas?