Best anti-cavalry tactics using Infantry and archers?

[veronicalin101]

I have played M&B for 8+ years and I just love to charge with horse and horse archers

I did tried to explore how to form infantry tactics forming "shield formation" with long spears facing out, archers hiding in the back and fire shoots.
but when 100 infantry VS 100 horsemen, it's almost guaranteed infantry will fail terribly in plain fight. Cavalry is just better than infantry, period.

so the best clan I choose is Khuzait, all other clans are heavily depends on infantry or archers.

how do you guys manage to use use infantry to fight?

[titanopteryx]

The way the ai does it is to encircle the archers with a ring of infantry. The infantry protect the archers who shoot at the cavalry. I haven't tried that myself, but that's the tactic the ai uses.

[Leigh]

Archers loose.

Infantry loose.

= Glue Factory.

[veronicalin101]

Originally posted by Lei:

Archers loose.

Infantry loose.

= Glue Factory.

well, the archers are shooting so slow, Bows are ever more slow, arrows missed most of time

the only way is to fight at forts or city, force the horsemen on foot to fight equally

you can test, use 50 horsemen and 50 horse archers, 100 calvary can kill 150-180 infantry and archers, no matter what formation you form

[Leigh]

Don't field chod?

Aserai Master Archers are not the best of units, but they are still good, and easy to source, and make up the bulk of my ranged infantry. I typically use Legionaries for my melee infantry.

Decent archers and decent melee infantry will rip apart any horse that gets too close.

You'll take losses, it won't be easy, but it is my fave and most successful way to beat a all cavalry/mounted skirmisher army.

Playing on realistic settings across the board, before anyone comments.

[veronicalin101]

Originally posted by Lei:

Don't field chod?

Aserai Master Archers are not the best of units, but they are still good, and easy to source, and make up the bulk of my ranged infantry. I typically use Legionaries for my melee infantry.

Decent archers and decent melee infantry will rip apart any horse that gets too close.

You'll take losses, it won't be easy, but it is my fave and most successful way to beat a all cavalry/mounted skirmisher army.

Playing on realistic settings across the board, before anyone comments.

thank you for your comments, yes I am playing realistic mode, I have tried many times to use infantry and archers to beat calvary, but it's just very difficult, I have to be at least double size against calvary, 2-1 or 3-1 ratio, and still suffer heavily calsulity