Lands to Conquer v2.3

[Revenant]

I have one question concerning late era heay cavalry in LTC 2.3 :

I checked their stats and realised that for example Lancers have worse stats than chivalric knights, have bigger upkeep and the same cost and recruiting conditions... so I do not understand why they are in this game? Yes, I know they have probably armoured horse with bigger mass and better armor and whatever... but as unit vs. unit, they are worse and have bigger upkeep.

The same is with gothic knights, but as they have ap secondary weapons and HRE do not have similar unit, they are ok...

The same issue is with Gendarmes who have crappy stats and extremely high upkeep, but at least they are trainable in cities...

So, my question is: what is the logic behind this all?

my opinion is that late era unit should be better or slightly worse but cheaper and with lower upkeep (like sword and buckler men vs. dismounted feudals. S+B are really usefull because of their low upkeep) which can mean something as better availability of non - noble units in renaissance era.

But now, lancers, for example are completely useless.

I think that better stats = more cost and upkeep (compared to other units of this type as general)

unless the unit is trainable in cities and so is militia, then it can have slightly worse stats and higher upkeep

or is the only representative of unit type the faction has (for example faction does not have any other units of heavy infantry except this) in which case it can have very high cost and upkeep...

But your logic can be different.