Quote Originally Posted by Monarch
Interesting part you picked out of the original post there.
Three ranged units beating 8 ranged units suggests an imbalance issue. Pav xbows don't use their shield when aiming and firing, so you'd think they would be vulnerable to arrows during that time. The pav is on their back, and only protects them when reloading. Those 3 pav xbows beat the first line of 4 enemy ranged units, but then also beat the second line of enemy ranged units which hadn't taken many losses until they moved up. The guy got outplayed in the melee, but he had fewer melee units and it's possible his melee were no better than Prince of the Poodles' melee depending on how much he spent on those 8 ranged units. Even if his melee are somewhat better, he's not going to be able to counter Prince of the Poodles' flanking moves.

So what it sounds like to me is that if your opponent takes pav xbows you better take pav xbows, and then you're going to get into one of those long boring xbow shootouts. Well this is great if you liked MTW xbow shootouts. My standard of comparision is STW gameplay not MTW.