[Luvian]

Personally, I rely more on Morale to win my fights.

I put my footmen in the center of my army with a unit or two of cavalry behind as backup, and put the rest of my Cavalry on either side. I then send them against the lowest morale units of the ennemy and his General while my footmen take care of the spearmen.

In the beginning I kill the first wave of prisoners I capture. That's usually enough to make them run. Then I send my light cavalry after them while my main army wait in formation. When the ennemy reinforcement start coming in I pull back my light cavalry and do the same thing again.

In my personal experience, an elite heavy cavalry unit will almost always win against a regular spear unit. The Cavalry kill at least 4-5 spearman for every casualty it suffer, so the spearmen usually panic at their biggest loss and start running away. Sure, they have the number and would eventually win, but none of them seem to want to be part of the 40-50% or so casualty they would get.