Talk:Barbarossa's March/@comment-99.246.174.44-20151119003516

I've never found the first half of this battle to be too tough. Abuse the fact that AI archers retreat from cavalry. Micro a small group of knights to avoid the Byzantine bombard towers and rush them into the gates as AI archers retreat through them and park them next to the wonder. So long as your knights don't get hit by a cannonball, they should be able to soak up damage without dying, and the rest of your army stays safe. The rest of the fight is pretty standard once you have the Byzantine navy. The Byzantine navy spanks the Saracen navy pretty easily. Use your monks to replace seige unit losses. After landing in Anatolia, you can either fight the standard fight or be extroadinarily cheap by kiting individual units, surrounding them, and wrecking them. I've definitely won this level with all units surviving (though typically I lose around 10-20: 1-5 taking on the Byzantines and the remainder throughout Anatolia, especially vs. Seljuk siege units). You definitely lose more units going south to the village.