As title, I always do worse than the ai, often having trouble with simple stuff.
How do you guys counter crossbows when you happen to have heavy infantry only?
How do you guys properly use archers, mine are always out of range or just able to fire 1 arrow before being charged @.
I take my archers behind my heavy infantry and then they're useless, if I let them shoot they kill my own guys or aim into the sky hitting nothing.
I can use crossbows effectively but archers are always useless for me, how can I make my longbowmen effective?
Finally: I'd like some hints about how to kill the papal states, I'm nr.1 in military but when declaring war they seem to be sending massive armies of papal guards wich are very hard to kill, I usually lose cities intead of winning, even if I have 5 full stacks of heavy cavalry, cannons, heavy infantry and good archers @ start when declaring war.
This is my situation:

Turn 162, I'm england, with the pope peed off at me and often in war with me when I kindly refuse his demands.
How can I conquer rome and kill the pope?
Any other hints greatly appriciated, what should I do in my campaign, I have no ''targeted'' enemy's except papal states.
How do you guys counter crossbows when you happen to have heavy infantry only?
How do you guys properly use archers, mine are always out of range or just able to fire 1 arrow before being charged @.
I take my archers behind my heavy infantry and then they're useless, if I let them shoot they kill my own guys or aim into the sky hitting nothing.
I can use crossbows effectively but archers are always useless for me, how can I make my longbowmen effective?
Finally: I'd like some hints about how to kill the papal states, I'm nr.1 in military but when declaring war they seem to be sending massive armies of papal guards wich are very hard to kill, I usually lose cities intead of winning, even if I have 5 full stacks of heavy cavalry, cannons, heavy infantry and good archers @ start when declaring war.
This is my situation:

Turn 162, I'm england, with the pope peed off at me and often in war with me when I kindly refuse his demands.
How can I conquer rome and kill the pope?
Any other hints greatly appriciated, what should I do in my campaign, I have no ''targeted'' enemy's except papal states.
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