It seems like the new changes are largely balancing themselves around the memesticks, when the entire thing could be a lot easier by just removing them.
Ask yourself which makes more sense.
- Rebalancing the melee stats of Skirmisher, Wildling, Recruit and Brigand so they are less effective in melee and less OP in combination with the memesticks.
- Completely reworking cav headshots so they no longer die in 1 hit to memesticks
- Completely reworking the javelins of every skirmisher class so that the memesticks are the default option. (who is going to pick a different jav option when the memestick is default? nobody)
- Completely rework every shield so that infantry are less memeable by the memesticks. (something they admittedly need to do anyway to help with bows)
- Hope that all of these changes stop Inf from just dropping their memestick for cav and having literally nothing change (It wont) (Thats like saying making the Long Awlpike more powerful and default for Swadian Inf would have convinced them to stop dropping it for cav???? No??)
Or
- Just replace the memesticks with either a regular spear or a stack of javelins depending on the class
Something else to consider with option one is that if the changes dont work like they are supposed to, memesticks are getting removed regardless. Except now there is an entire host of changes in the game specifically to balance certain classes around the use of memesticks...which are no longer in the game. So now you have horses that are immune to headshots and weaker skirmisher classes in melee for no reason.
It just seems like a lot of work to justify this one specific weapon.