Bulgarian strategy against strong archer and pikes civ

Ok so I am gonna be more specific to a scenario and a general strategy I use but feel short against some civs such as Ethiopian or Mongol. My elo is between 1100-1200 up and down and my goal is to get a decent win before they go Imp and get abr

My strategy: 20 pop MAA opening, transition to scouts to knights. If they pressure me in fuedal I make one range skirms and try to get both fletching and armor upgrades. Then starting castle I do two things: make two stable knights and try to get all armor upgrade before engaging in fights and send a villager to build a forward siege workshop.

Problem here: if I was against an archer civ who mass crossbow mostly I feel more comfortable dealing with them once I have all upgrades. But if it was against an archer civ who mass crossbow AND pikemen, such as Ethiopian, I often had to retreat to near my siege workshop and get scorpions and mangonel ASAP. But usually at this point neither scorpions nor mangonel is effective as their numbers and speed are too low against the already larger number of pikes and crossbow so they just end up jump onto my siege and eventually I had to retreat to my base and discard that siege workshop.

So what would be a better strategy here? Should I be adding more pressure to get more skirms to clear their archers as much as possible?

Or should I stick with my default strategy but have a better control? But play more defensively? Try to get more stone starting mid-fuedal and get kreposts as many as possible and focus on massing konnik and try to hit them back after getting stirrup?