A question of weapon types...

[QwertyMIDX]

Obviously a Falx can kill an unarmored person too, but it really comes to the fore when fighting heavily armored opponents. Weapons like the Falx, 2 handed axe, 2 handed sword, etc. tend to be very good at smashing or slicing through armor, the draw back being that they are rather unwieldy and since it isn't too hard to predict the attacks that will be made with them, dodging the attacks is the way to go. Getting out of the way is something a lightly armored solider would be better at than his heavily armored counterpart, whose armor is little more than expensive dead weight against the Falx and other weapons of that ilk.

[Zero1]

Thats a morale issue, I've seen enemy troops who could normally slaughter the ones I'm using to engage them rout on contact when I'm besieging a town, especially if they're the only ones left. It happens when you've already slaughterd or routed a bunch of their buddies and its sort of like a chain reaction, and their morale plummets, and at that point they'll pretty much rout from anything.

[.Nero.]

Yeah, I did a test in custom, and you're right. I just thought it weird that a fresh unit would die that quickly.

Thanks for the correctionand falx lesson.