Expensive elite swords and axes (eg: CMAA, Swabians, Varangians).
Those guys are utter carnivores against pretty much all infantry, but my own infantry tends to be spears, polearms, and archers/skirmishers, and I invariably use heavy horse as my hammer units.
I guess I just can't get my head around using slow (read: infantry) units as a hammer unit.
But seriously, if I was to hypothetically face my own line-up used by a hypothetical opponent of precisely equal skill, EXCEPT with a couple of heavy swords/axes swapped in for spears/halberdiers, I would probably quite easily route the opposing army (as used by said hypothetical opponent).
Does that even make sense??
Anyway, short answer as to why: I guess it's just habit.
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