Quote Originally Posted by WinsingtonIII View Post
I generally alt click once in melee against the AI too, although I believe it's been stated a couple times on these forums that for lancer cavalry with low-lethality secondaries (such as the kopis), the lance (despite being slow and having a low attack without the charge) is actually more deadly even in prolonged melee simply because the lethality is so high (.3-.4 generally). This isn't true for lancers with better secondaries though.
I do so also most of the time but sometimes it's quite annoying: Your superior cavalry (with some good swordattack e.g.) loses against a lance cavalry (with AP lances) although that other cavalry is not meant to fight well in melee.