Quote Originally Posted by O'Hea View Post
In my opinion, VI's balance was far worse than Shogun or vanilla Medieval, and may have even been a little worse than Rome roster-wise. Huscarles were just too good, only the Picts and Irish had decent missile troops, and everyone's cavalry was lousy. And life was just way too easy for the Vikings.
The average armor is much higher in MTW than in STW, but the bow weapon (except for longbow) is unchanged so the archers are much less effective. Guns are also much less effective, and the xbows take too long to reload. The result is less playbalance in the RPS system of MTW than in STW.