Battle Tactics

The catapults will advance first, and fire off the large sacks of
gunpowder at the enemy troops. The catapults will then retreat to the
sides of the attack force, being covered by our cavalry. The pikemen
will then crouch down and create an impenetrable wall of spears, as
well as giving some headroom to the archers. The archers then fire
arrows with burning rags attached at the gunpowder bags, hopefully
blowing most of the enemy troops into oblivion. The pikemen will then
advance on the enemy, while the musketeers move forward and flank
what's left of the enemy army, along with the trebuchets launching
rocks with flaming rags tied around them at the enemy. Nothing can go
wrong.


GENERAL'S POST-BATTLE COMMENTS

It didn't work. I'd like to add that it would have worked, but our
Lieutenant in charge of armaments got drunk on the night before the
battle and replaced the bags of gunpowder with bags of elephant feed.
Instead of an earth-shattering explosion when the flaming arrows hit
the silk,  a bunch of peanuts started pouring out. The enemy
pikemen then distracted my idiot troops by throwing the peanuts at
them. There was a reason those recruits were cheap, and it showed by
the fact that they threw themselves at the ground and started
squabbling over who gets to eat the peanuts. They got creamed by the
enemy pikemen then charging at them, and I was shot off my horse and
beaten with sticks. I'm lying in the dirt as I write this. And I'm
dead, too. To anyone who plans to use this battle plan for another
attack, I warn you: Hide the booze at least two days before the fight.