Second, the bodyguard sizes are really annoying. And my personal experience, in melee the cavalry fights better with spears than with kopis.

I have a guy called Perdikkas sitting around in Edessa, he is a really experienced general, and having influence about 4 or 5, and since he fought his last battle a few years ago, he stayed in Edessa with 28 somatophylakes and not got a single one to reinforce his personal corps since then.