Quote Originally Posted by Joshwa
I guess their spears have been nerfed to emphasise their use of cavalry, since if they had good spears as well they would be pretty kickass at everything. As it stands, an angry fishwife could take on a byzantine spearman
IMHO, the Byzantines have been dealt a pretty lousy card in M2TW. They have excellent horse archers and that's pretty much it. Their foot archers are adequate, their melee infantry and cavalry have outlandish building requirements and they have the worst spears under the sun. Oh, and no gunpowder of course. I wouldn't call them a weak faction, but their lack of decent spears makes it difficult to field solid infantry-based armies.