my companions are all well equiped but from exeption of the leoric and the darkness the others are a bit ussless and they die in almost all the batles..and me ,leoric and the darkness alone cant hold on the enemy advance alone..and the infantary or cavalary are useless to hold a lord, they will only be capable to do it if they have at lest 10 soldiers to hold him but they will be killed realy fast.
and them eventualy the lord and some soldiers will charge against your archers and they will be dead in no time, because they are usseless in close combat
if you wish to take down a lord if he has a huge troop advantage...make a full cavalary troop..at lest it works for me...but they willbe a quite usseless in sieges