Originally Posted by
TheTrueGreek
this is assuming you know what he has, where his cav, if he has height, and most of all if your cav can beat his, but personally, id just go with a milanese army compsing of mainly 6 crossbows, 6 men at arms, 8 dismounted men at arms. its very simple to win with this so long as you can manage morale well, shoot at him, charge him and force his cavalry to come out, then charge with some of your own and maybe a few inf, pull back the infantry charging his mainline and watch his cav die, he cant do anything about it as he is pinned by my inf and crossbows after words, shoot until you cant shoot anymore and charge or if he charges, he loses all bonuses of being in a box and you can do a charge in his rear with you cav
also, when firing on a box, always pick the unit in the back of the box, this enables you to hit it with you cav with little kills and a quick rout, which, combined with your inf charging the front, can cause and instant army rout