Quote Originally Posted by econ21
I'm not really interested in discussions about "balance" that pay no regard to history or plausiblity. Why play Medieval Total War at all, if you don't care for the realism - just find some arbitrary rock-paper-scissors game and have fun tweaking it to be perfectly mathematically "balanced". (I understand balance is important in MP, but there's another forum for that particular discussion.)
I completely disagree. Actually the game is soo umbalanced 'cause of this "historical" heavy cav charge power (is it really HISTORICAL??? Or maybe is it only a French ballads influence? Where is history?) that you can win the whole campaing playing with an "all heavy cav army", charging and recharging on units all the time and killing 30/50 men at any impact, without loosing men.

Try it to believe. Is it historical? I don't think so. Is it balanced, of corse not. Is it FUNNY? Completely not for me.
Heavy cav is so overpowered that the other hundred of units are useless in the game.

Any unit must have a counterpart, to be usefull in any way. And IMO light/heavy spears have to counter light/heavy cavs