Quote Originally Posted by The Errant
But once they get bogged down in a melee, the Kopis just dosen't stand a chance against the Arabian longsword.
I'm guessing it's primarily two things really. One, the AP of the kopis doesn't really matter all that much against the Arabs who rely more on their shields and defense skill, so the rather gross difference in lethality value becomes more telling. Two, the AI is an idiot and doesn't know how to use secondary weapons in the first place; I've chopped Grivpanvar to bits with even fairly light AP-armed troops thanks to this, as the kontos just plain sucks in extended melee and doubly so against practically unarmoured opponents, and the AI doesn't know how to pull out the swords which would serve them by far better...