culverin losing every battle

[DDRJake]

2:1:1 inf/cav/art, upgraded to 2:1:2 for the big wars or when money isn't an issue has yet to let me down.

 

[DDRJake]

But nevertheless, i think you should allways have ~max number of cavalry that allows you to take mixed arms bonus.

Everything else you said was fine, but for this...

Infantry die the most in a battle; they are on the front lines and take the heaviest beating and if you try to keep the maximum amount of cavalry you will very quickly find that you lose a few men and away goes your combined arms bonus (which gives you a bonus to tactics thereby decreasing the amount of casualties you take)