note you can move your cavalry OUT of stakes without casualties as the sticks are not sticking at your horses' chest.

i didnt realise this and was only exploiting this for the past 2 weeks.

i was very surpised that you withstood the attacks (even from AI) for that long without lots of spearmen. even with mercenary spearmen, pikemen, etc... my unit would have been already running half way to Bern. from the sound of it, at least you kept your units together. it is very hard to keep units from scattering all over the battlefield when fighting the middle-east and eastern (mongol/timurid) forces. well done.

more yeoman would have help, alot. even longbow archers are superior to the mercenary crossbowmen that i was using initially. for the middle-east screnario, spear-wall units are not that great due to wide-open space.