You are exaggerating. Just lucky shot. You can easely ride in circles till they have no arrows, its just boring and tedious.
They already dont do thet. Forest archers cant hit you consistently, when you galoping at full speed in circles. Horse archers cant hit you at all if you galoping in circles, i would say stepp bandits is easiest bandits for soloing, you can easely kill them without taking damage. End event then archers aiming at yours centr of mass, The mostly hit your horse.
Im speaking of base damage wich is around 35 on spears.
Yes they do slip and penetrate, i dont say they shall not do damage. Its their damage OUT OF LINE. Just reduce it to warband level, it was from 21 to 50 if im not mistaken. And no, Arrow have far less kinetic energy. 200 gramm arrow times 75m/s gives 15 N. Sword 1,5 kg times 20 m/s gives 30 N. There two weapons with OUT OF LINE damage, bows and glave swing. These things should be brought in line.
Its would not cos mass is to low. And farther you are, lower the energy. Bow in COMPARSION to other weapons do too much damage. Sword hitting helmet have more kinetic energy, spear or mace too. Why damage from bow 2-3 times of them? And no bow exept modern, with modern arrows, can penetrate iron plate, i smell bul****.
It is exist. Almost all helmets made out of plates, lamellar made of plates, coat of plates. Ful plate does not exist, yes. Any way bows do too much damage, triple damage of spears. Why is that? Accurasy is ok, but damage is ridiculos. Just reduce damage by three and it be ok. Spear leave huge bleeding hole in you. Arrow leaves small, closed wound and somehow its two, three times damage of spear. Even ****ty bows do more damage than spear, why is that so?