Quote Originally Posted by ZinedineZidane
like freaking skirmishers with no armour, i'll send a unit of armoured cataphracts and they have to stab them like 10 times just to kill 1 guy

I suppose not all those stabs were hits? That's what the units have a defense value for: they evade hits. Yesterday I had a battle in which Equites Consulares attacked Velites. Not that the Consulares suffered serious casulties but they had quite some problem with killing those guys. I watched three horsemen stabbing and striking at one Velite without placing a single hit. After some time, one of the three seemed to become bored and rode away, while the skirmisher was finally killed by a fourth rider that passed by and pierced him.