What would be a good faction for good calvary, good archers, and either good pikemen or good medium infantry. The way I battle is I make a line of pikemen even a octagon if I'm fighting a large number of calvary so I can prevent flanking. Behind th pikemen or within the octagon I place my archers, I like to have 3-4 or more groups of archers. Sometimes I'll buy mercs and I'll put them on the end of my combat line. Then I take my calvary and put them on the end of my line about 200 yards away from my troops. When the enemy army marches my archers fire upon, they start to take heavy loses and their moral sinks. Then they rush straight at my pikemen but the pikes keep them at range and my archers can still hit them. If the enemy doesn't pull back or if they break through to hand to hand combat with my pikemen I use my fast light mercs on the end of the line to swarm out and flank the enemy that are engaging my pikemen, this traps the enemy and really screws em good. Then if any calvary try to flank me, or if any enemy archers get seperated from combat troops and are hurting my pikemen I send in the calvary! It works all the time in Rome TW. If I can find a similar selection of units I'll be happy.
