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This is a guide for solo play. Have fun trying to use horse archery when you're outnumbered 200 to 1. You simply do not have the arrows to do this and trying to camp your chest for reloads when you are against 200+ enemies, many of them carrying shields, is not an option.
Heavy Charger is good because it eats arrows and crossbow bolts like a champion and keeps on living. Which when literally every single archer is aimed at you, is important. You can dodge most of them. You can't dodge all of them. It's why shields are important as well, because you WILL have to block arrows, either directly or via angling yourself to take the hits on your shield while you set up a swing.
Try using a normal horse archery setup in solo combat against any large army on pure vanilla with the damage stats set to 100% and see how long you last before you are shot off your horse or your horse is shot out from under you.
Dissing on bows? L2P without damage reduction and you'll realise this guide is cabbage. The only way is a fast horse, good bow and lots of arrows in the inv, esp once you move to proper difficulty modules like PoP or 3E
Retreat spamming is nice when it's possible, but as said, it doesn't really work out when solo defending a castle or a village or attacking a castle.
Also, at 100% damage, being crossbowed off your horse because you didn't have a shield up is a very real, and very painful experience.
I don't use any shields. My armor negates a lot of the damage and since I'm always moving its hard for archers to hit me, the only thing I worry about in battles is my horse's health (and trees OMG I HATE TREES) but I'm able to retreat and my horse's health is full again.
My order of targets that I take out first in battles goes like this in order:
Cavalry, Archers, Infantry.
Cavalry because they can catch up to me since the horse I use is an armored warhorse. Archers are easy targets since they hang back from the infantry and they spread themselves out.
I play with the Diplomacy mod.
Bows are extremely strong but ammo is limited and they consume a lot of inventory space. Given shields have a finite durability, you will typically need two, and shields also protect your back if worn on your back.