idk if this will happen, i don’t think we can just completely redesign an entire unit line.
But in general I think the idea of having an Infnatry unit that fares well against the archer + knight combo could be great. I once started a thread for this kind of ideas here:
I think an Infantry with high Pierce armor and bonus vs Cavalry could definitely work. Especially as a single player making them won’t be enough to stop being doubled. Meaning, whilst they might be great in strategically countering the knight + archer combo it would still be a practical issue to make them work cause of the lower mobility.
They could be countered by either a new ranged (trash) Infantry counter OR potentially even skirms and spears dealing some bonus damage against them. And then ofc as it always was Siege to some degree cause of the low movement speed.