Walter, how did you deal with the coversion of the Catholic regions in such a short time span? I know one trick is to make an army of priests, but when Catholic priests are always encroaching on your lands, you need some extra priests to stay behind and deal with them.

And you're right. The Russian infantry is pretty crappy. The Boyar sons do okay though. I had about 3 groups of them (whats that, 180 guys?) hold off around 3-4 groups of Danish spearmen. Though in the end, I was lef with about 10 of them.