@Gedemon - I know and appreciate your mod
@Resurrection -
But yeah, current anti - mounted line is
awful.
Spearman -> Pikeman
[both units are weak against anything other than cavalry... useless against composites/crossbowmen]
-> Lancer
This unit is wrong on so many levels.
1) Lancers historically were WEAK against cavalry. In fact cavalry with lances should be countered by cavalry with pistols/sabres, according to historical post - medieval warfare.
2) It is very good against knights... But pikemen is already designed to counter knights who are medieval unit! And
'anti cavalry' Lancers are bad against Cavalry
3) They have the same combat strenght as musketmen but they are awful at defense, expensive, require horses, bad at capturing cities and have awful upgrade path (later I will comment that). They only upside: good movement speed.
4)
...Slow infantry pikemen -> Fast horse lancers -> Slow anti tank artillery -> Super fast helicopter?! This entire path is insane
First we get pikemen who are massacred by everything except knights (...and knights have double movement so hunting them with pikemen is de facto impossible), later lancers who are massacred by everything including cavalry
, lancers have no upgrade for VERY long time (while all other units from renaissance have upgrades soon) and are useless until finally getting to the Anti Tank Guns...
...which are also almost useless units
AT guns are good against tanks - but tanks can always escape them easily - and awful against everything else, including Great War Infantry. Also slow and melee. Jesus Christ.
Finally they upgrade into helicopters which are very good to killing artillery/tanks/pillaging... But nothing more.
Yeah.
I would completely abandon the entire Anti - Mounted line as Mounted units aren't even so powerful to counter them so much, make spearmen/pikemen separate 'early melee' upgrading into musketmen, make knights upgrading into lancers and AT guns/helicopters separate units like carriers. The end.