"Only 40-50 damage to heavy infantry units"
This made me laugh so hard. Other elite bowmen hit 20s to heavy infantry, and they nerfed them more with new update.
You can always see vlandia crossbowmen on top scores, but you will never see bowmen there (with very rare exceptional players). Vlandian crossbowmen dominate the siege/tdm games, other side bowmen die so easily to them.
If vlandia is defending, its actually waste of money to pick bowmen even.
Try playing the team against vlandia, if you truly want to understand how OP vlandia is in these gamemodes. Especially try when vlandia defends, which happens rarely (since vlandia gets more votes and becomes attacking team), but you will find it if you play every evening.
I am not even gonna go into Knight, Sergeant's ridiculous armor, weapon, health, horse armor, run perks.
Vlandia shouldn't have best heavy infantry in game, Empire must have it instead.
Vlandia shouldn't have best heavy cavalry in game, Khuzait must have it instead.