Are the Byzantines not weak enough?

[oz_wwjd]

My chief regret is the loss of the Varangian Guard unit in late.I use these guys as my number 1 infantry unit,nothing else even comes close to them.Byz inf just isn't dependable not to rout in a pinch, I can depends on thses guys to hold on,for a bit even if they are outnumbered and flanked,until I can rush reinforcements to assist them.I recently had to fight a major battle against the Italians that were fielding mass armies of cmaa/Chiv sargeants/italian inf, I doubt that byz inf would have lasted very long agains them