Either y'all are intentionally playing dumb or you honestly don't have a clear idea of what I'm describing. I certainly hope (and really do believe) it is the latter. In that case, let me try again:

First off, to anyone who hasn't realized this as of yet, picture the following situation. You have a cataphract that is standing 50 metres aways from an infantry company. You can order your cataphract to attack the infantry company by either right clicking on the mouse, or holding ALT and then right clicking. Either way, the cataphract charges using the lance (just look at the animation + were you really expecting a "charge" with a mace?). Now, in either case, the charge value should be one and the same, because in both cases the lance is used in the charge. Sure the attack value is different in melee, but the issue at hand has nothing to do with melee. The issue is: why should ALT-right-clicking use half the charge value, when in fact the cataphract uses the same lance to charge with? Doesn't anyone else see the strangeness in that?