I played as England the first go round, and relied heavily upon longbowmen. I'm now Russia and finding it hard to find an identity with my armies early on. They seem to lack early infantry, badly. The woodsmen get ripped to shreds by anything armored, or on horse. They're pretty worthless. I also only have peasent archers, pretty worthless IMO. I have finally gotten spearmen in a few castles.
The Council has been rewarding me with alot of Heavy Cavalry. My armies are mostly all mounted units right now, but I'm having a hard time being effective. Should I line my Heavy Cav up and just charge them (unless they are spearmen) and then chip away from the flanks with my missle cavalry? How do you effectively use missle cavalry?
I'm going to start experimenting with my spearmen. Probably just line them up and march toward their army as my missle cavalry chips away from the flanks. Then, I'll send a few Heavy Cavalry around the back. I'm currently at war with the Byzantines and they are very Horse Archer heavy usually. Should I just charge them with my cav?
My current units are Woodsmen, Peasant Archers, Spearmen, Heavy Cav (Driz....something), Boyer Sons (Missle Cav) and Kazaks (Horse Archers). Also have catapults/ballistas.
Any tips would help. Thanks.