Quote Originally Posted by m52nickerson View Post
Granted that if you try and use Hals to grind anything other then heavy armor and or horses they will lose. That is what units like CMAA are for. Ddismounted chivalric knights are very nice, they are also far more expensive.
Just a note: the halberdiers are useful only on passive defense (staying on hill, wating for the enemy to come, turn him into flight and no pursuing him). Everything else results into disaster that I (almost) experienced in another battle with the Horde. The battle was saved not by the Varangians, not by the hired mercenary Halbs but by wretched Spearman who were dying for their fatherland. From this moment on, the plain, simple spearman is highly appreaciated. Of course, it is true that the Byz does not have anything better but what they have is not insufficient.

CMAA are nice, though they have no business in a thread for the Horde, as you know.