Quote Originally Posted by joe4iz
Well, if someone was looking for extreme historical accuracy, than this game is not it.

Most of the army composition would be footmen as the training to be a knight would take years. Knights would only be able to be trained, say every five years and would be only 5 or 10 in number. Also most of those footman units would be of peasent composition.

Composite bows in northern europe would suffer from the damp weather conditions. Most bowmen would be of poor quality and smaller unit size due to the years of training needed to be a bowman.
The Byzantine Empire had a professional army with Excellent heavy cavalry (not Knights but at least the equal of some Knights) and had no feudal system. During the komnenian period (in which M2TW is set) Byzantium had (arguably of course) the most effective fighting force in all of Europe.