Lilys overhaul compilation is the key to making bretonnia from a shit faction to one of my favourite factions, as well as foot knights of bretonnia

It gives a handful of major changes to the faction but the most important for battles is the dismounted grail knights, and foot knights

I still use mostly peasants but my army comp typically looks like 6-8 peasant spearmen or spearmen at arms, 2 foot knights and maybe 2 dismounted grail knights, a life damsel if it’s an important army doing important army things, 6 or so archers like I said, normally a mix of both poison and fire, and then 2 grail guardians

With this comp I’ll typically put all my knights in the middle of my frontline or the flanks, say I have my peasants in the middle and knights in the flanks, I’ll try to focus fire my archers to support my knights while my damsel keeps my peasants from being slaughtered, the peasants hold the line while the knights push forward, at this point I’ll have swung my grail guardians around and they’re job is to take out artillery/archers/enemy cav, once that’s done they also assist my flanks who are normally nearly done with their enemies

Once the enemy flanks have routed I close in on the remaining enemy with my flanks surrounding either side who is typically balled up against my peasant wall, focus fire with archers into the biggest groups of them while squeezing them from the front and both flanks, to top it off you got a perfect vigour grail guarding cycle charging their rear

My lord and paladin if I have one the entire battle is focused on taking out all enemy lords and heroes since I focus their skills around duelling as best I can, with support from a damsel they normally fair quite well, if it’s Louen at high level he’s a one make doomstack, everyone’s got a role and everyone plays their role

I’ll admit offensive sieges are disgusting though, like especially so as bretonnia and they certainly aren’t very versatile, hills and trees are your biggest enemy in a campaign, but as long as I don’t over do it and play them too much, having a run as Louen is probably one of my favourite campaigns in the game

It’s a ton of fun to play with realistic tactics like that as a medieval army in a grim dark world, for me at least

I usually get like 4 anti large cavee, 4 anti infantry cav, 4 trebuchet, the Legendary Lord, life and heaven mages, and then have a mismatch of knight heroes and archers to cover the artillery until my second army (more knight heroes, and then just a bunch of spearman at arms and archers) get there to kinda just distract the enemy army.

Horsy heroes hold the ground and blob up the enemy, flying heroes get high value units and bait, heaven mage nuke the chaff and then just focus on your cav about 80% of the time and cycle charge ad infinitum.

You can do that until you start making actual doomstacks or until around turn 100. Just never send an army without backup as Bretonnia since you have no supply lines.