i'm always interested in other peoples battle strategy, so I'd be keen to see your battle!

The quality of units is more important than the number of them, but most important of all are two factors:

1. Unit matchups. Having the right units fight the right enemies is very important. For this reason a balanced force is very important. enemy has lots of attacking cavalry? make sure you're packing polearm troops, or spears and axemen to pin and flank them. You can also use fast Horse Archers to attack heavy cavalry like Knights. The Knights will never catch them, but will get very tired chasing them around the map and ...into your spears. Along the way your HA's will pick some of them off.

2. Positions. getting units into a position where they can do the most harm is the single biggest factor in winning battles. If you can get a unit, any unit(s) into a position where they can flank or rear attack another unit, you are on the road to victory. cavalry are especially good at this, but even archery units can perform a useful task if they can be used to rear attack someone.


Morale normally decides the battle, and Cavalry at your rear is a recipe for disaster.

Some general points:

Vs spears defending a hill: If they are decent spears like Chiv. Sergeants, send your own spears against them. They will hold them in place, but do little damage to each other. this is fine as you want to be using your attacking infantry elsewhere on flanks anyway and if they are stuck fighting uphill against spears they will take losses and get very tired. The spears will break once they get to about 50% men or less.

Re: generals:
Can make a big difference, but not in this case when they are so close together.