Uber Peasants?

[Kraxis]

Have you checked other factions' peasants?

I'm at work and can't check myself, but I distinctly remember not building Turkish peasants because their attack and defense stats are only 1, as opposed to English peasant stats which are much higher.

The English Peasants are 3/4 stats, a long way from the 5/7 of the Town Militia.

But fair enough, I will try the Turkish peasants, which I summe has knives. But I don't think that will help much since the Peasant archers seem to be able to do the same.

[EDIT]
Nope... didn't make much of a difference.
The Turkish Peasants are indeed 1/1, yet they won with 105 kills to my 63 (I changed sides to see if the player might have something to do with it, apparently not).
In fact the Peasants matched my chargekills, despite the fact that the Town Militia should have dishing out more significantly.

I'm beginning wonder as well if the shield does have an impact on melee. But even with the loss of the shield the Town Militia should have bested the Turkish peasants (if not the English).