difference between history and mtw2 is that there were real humans, in mtw2 they are only animated.

in history often tenthousands fought in a battle, in tw its never more than some thousand.
in history there were many knights only armies, including squires and other auxilairy units.
there were only infantry armies also or mixed armies and the outcome of battles didnt allways depend on the kind of equipment or tactical dispositions only.

i dont think that history is so important in this case. for me it just adds some atmosphere to the game.

for the sake of balance i think cavalry should beat swords also when charging frontaly, swords should beat spears and spears should beat cav.

i think the uberness of cav is the result of bugs.
an other thing is that most of the times ppl play steppe wich gives an other advantage to cavalry.

shaka