FOR master ARchers Only...

They can only target you with their cats if you advance your units or they advance their cats as cats can't reach back row on first shot. If your opponent isn't commanding then there cats(all units) will automatically target the closet unit to them. That is when a meat shield is most useful when they advance all units you can use your infs or cavs (pref infs) to block their cavs or infs so your cats can kill them if they come to close(don't advance infs until second round and only if you haven't killed all of their cavs otherwise wait until their infs get close) then kill their cats with your cavs and cats If they have a large enough number of cavs and cats in comparison to yours you will most likely lose. however against a cav army archers can also be useful if you wait them for cavs to charge and they can hit cavs with cats if you advance them once after killing their infs with cats(or archers) if you can do it in first hit. otherwise hold back archers too as many have said they are weak defenders. use infs then cavs as a shield to hold off enemy cavs and infs from your cats and archers. Hope that came out right if I'm mistaken in some way please let me know thanks. -ShadyMatt