Quote Originally Posted by rosscoliosis
I'm finding that 1 vs 1, both un-upgraded, on completely flat land, peasants still beat levy spearmen, though it is a bit closer than it was before your patch. I thought the uberness of peasants was something regarded as a "bug" before?
Spear units take minuses against any sort of infantry, so perhaps this is as intended. At the very least the peasants will generally not beat up on units that are up a tier from them. Try this on for size:

English Peasants vs. HRE Armored Sergeants. I control peasants.

Vanilla game:

P Kills/AS Kills
60/65

The peasants nearly won the day, against a unit whose stats are way above theirs.

Game with shield fix:

P Kills/ AS Kills
20/49

The peasants give up much sooner, as they are not causing MAD to AS and clearly disadvantaged.

So yeah... I don't mind if they beat crappy spears, as spears are supposed to be disadvantaged by an undisclosed amount against them, but the fix makes them not able to grind down considerably better units, which I think is the real point.