Best Anti Mongol stack

[Daveybaby]

As spain i use 2 types of stack. One is a cheap and easily mass produced attrition stack, used to wear down the huge mongol stacks into something more manageable, and the other is a 'proper' stack used to take out the depleted mongol stacks.

'attrition' stack
10 spear militia, kept in schiltrom formation
6 crossbow militia
2 heavy cav
2 catapults

Try to find a nice hill to place your xbows and catapults on. Create a line of spears in schiltrom formation further down the hill, where they wont get in the way of your xbows. If the mongols dont come to you (rare) then tempt them by either sacrificing a spear unit, or by sending out some cav (but try to make sure they get back in one piece).

The spear militia are there purely to hold the line while the xbows and catapults inflict as much damage as possible on the mongol heavy lancers and horse archers. The 2 heavy cav are there to perform hit and run on any exposed mongol foot archers, and to try to hold off any lancers that sneak through gaps between the spearmen (there will be huge gaps since the spears are in schiltrom, but in general the lancers go for the spears first rather than sneak past). The point of this stack is to lose, but to inflict significant (hopefull 50%) damage on the enemy stack while doing so. Try to pull your xbows and catas out just before the spears rout.

The whole point of the attrition stack is that you can turn out a whole stack pretty much every turn from the tightly packed cities around the jerusalem area, so it doesnt matter how many men you lose, you can replace them quickly, whereas every mongol heavy lancer you take out is one that's never coming back (assuming you havent let the mongols build an empire yet).

'extermination' stack
4 mounted xbows
6 heavy cav (incl. general)
5 pavise xbows
5 dis. chiv knights

Use this stack to eliminate depleted mongol stacks.
use mounted xbows to thin out whats left of the heavy lancers
use heavy cav to take out enemy arty and mongol foot archers
use pav xbows to outshoot mongol HAs with dis.knights for protection.