Quote Originally Posted by The Celtic Viking View Post
A note should be made that the owner of the Cantabrian Circle HA was me, and that's as well as saying the AI was controlling it. Possibly worse.
Haha, well the general concept remains. Use a lighter unit to get them to skirmish away. Some light units can catch them, especially light cav, if your opponent is not paying close enough attention.

The real killer tactic though is this, which I did use. When HA's go into CC you of course tell your archers to either hold fire or target elsewhere as the arrows won't connect. However, when chasing away the horsies, they come out of the circle and are susceptabile to archer fire. If you time it properly, you can target your archers on them about a second or two before the horses skirmish away and they will connect with the now exposed backs of the horse archers, causing devestating casualties and often a rout.