me and a few companions as heavy cavalry 30 swad knights about 70 huscals (usualy a bunch of nord infintry on there way to huscarl status) and 100 vaegir marksmen. only time i ever lost a battle was against the entire khergit army (every single lord and it was after i wiped out all the other factions so it was allot of em) still managed to kill 2 or 3 thousand of the buggers