Quote Originally Posted by General Zhukov
I did read it Carl. I have read many of your posts. They all move to this beat: bug, fix, bug bug fix, fix, fix, fix fix bug. Which plays into a larger phenomenon I've noticed about the boards: somebody finds something they question in the game, and make a "fix" for it! Meanwhile, it's by no means clear that the vanilla version of what they're changing was bugged in any way. Alot of this is stylistic; it's modding. But you can't find a percieved problem, mod it, and then claim to have achieved balance. Okay, so many people around here like to do just that. But for people who care about the vanilla experience, and are more comfortable leaving the balance aspect to the original creators, all this rush to modify is a bit too hasty.

OK, but the 2H axes/polearms units are bugged (without any of fixes), at least this is true.

But the other issues can be in reality intentional game mechanics. Shields hamper combat, but because late units (as zweihanders and DGK) do not have big stats, everything will equals itself. Or maybe developers discovered some bugs before release, and then tried to "repair" it with some artificial rules, we cannot be sure.