Quote Originally Posted by Whacker
Should still be about as deadly to an armored knight as that one Ewok in Return of the Jedi who's sitting on top of the AT/ST banging away with his stick.

Luckily the Ewoks in larger numbers are tactical geniuses, and easily capable of complex battlefield tricks and traps. Maybe Peasants are similar, which explains why full units handily dispatch seemingly better troops - CA just chose not to animate the log traps, hang gliders, and primitive catapults that peasants are using in combat.