Army compositions

[General A. Skywalker]

Hey, which AI-compositions do you experience most?
I had may battles (I'm Rhomaioi ) against the Italian states, Milan and Sicilia and I experienced, that most of their field armies consist of 50 to 60 % missiles (mainly crossbowmen).
That is not very effective and in fact it's the reason why they lose every battle against me.
Missiles are important, but not as important as close combat infantry!
I have seen some better composed French armies, though, but never faught against them.

So, what do you have to say?

[Sonny WiFiHr]

I had diferent expirience: lots of spear militia ( 10 >), mercenary spearmen (<4), few merc x-bows (2>), few milan pav x-bovs (3>6) + 1-2 horse (usualiy merc) and they use generals quite.And I was almost flanked ,once ambushed and attacked from 2 sides (front = full stack army, behind = 60% stack army)

[Garnier]

Hey, which AI-compositions do you experience most?
I had may battles (I'm Rhomaioi ) against the Italian states, Milan and Sicilia and I experienced, that most of their field armies consist of 50 to 60 % missiles (mainly crossbowmen).
That is not very effective and in fact it's the reason why they lose every battle against me.
Missiles are important, but not as important as close combat infantry!
I have seen some better composed French armies, though, but never faught against them.

So, what do you have to say?

Check my LTC addon, it does a LOT for army composition, you can read about it there. I have made archers and siege weapons less common, removed merc crossbows(they were overused), and in general there are better AI armies. I also just today made Milan and Venice use much better armies.

[Foreign Fruitcake]

Where exactly?

[Garnier]

Two threads down. I will put a link in my sig now I guess.

[Space Voyager]

I also see a lot of crossbow-mainly armies... IIRC especially on the Italian faction side.

Surprisingly Poland seems to recrout heavy cavalry and handgunners only.

Both goes for LTC 2.1, I haven't upgraded yet.