Melee cav still not balanced

[Lotor13]

@Shneider177

So why exactly did a respectful mass of sipahi die to abbassid composite bows in an open field*?

Mind you again these are 2 professionals, each performing at highest obtainable (technically unobtainable) skill ceiling. If th counter system can’t behave for the bestest, doesn’t that suggested it’s lacking?

not melee cav, but archer / ranged units are unbalanced - too effective

ranged units shoud have melee attack in close combat, the game should solely work with rock-papper-scissors, but also with unit roles

I opened discussion about that here

POLL: Should Ranged Units switch to melee attack in close combat?

poll All range units in AoE3 have a melee attack , and this mechanic is already in AoE 4 - in the SP campaign, which is early version of AoE 4, for some “irrational” reason (I would be really interested, why), the developers cut it off from the final version. I want to ask AoE community here (or even developers), what do You think about it? I see this as step back, IMO the units in RTS should not work only with a theoretical rock-paper-scissors system, but also with the unit roles, in this cas…