The "price" difference between heavy cav and inf is not big enough during skirmish game mod imo
Druzhinnik is roughly the same. His lance is only 1 point shorter, the horse stats are comparable too. Knight used to be the same until they removed his heavy lance perk.This cav is actually so overpowered. It has the fastest horse in the game (and it's armored), costs less than 200 so snowballs harshly, and it can get a lance that outranges all other cav except for cataphract with kontos. Also, I don't know how true this is, but from my observations it seems like this class' shield covers more than other cavalry units.
As i've mentioned regarding heavy cavalry's rather piss-poor options for self-defense, I wonder if a worthwhile buff would be to make Aserai Heavy Mace a possible upgrade for the Mameluke Saber. Like the Vlandian cavalry sword, the mameluke saber is painfully slow and will only succeed in getting the user killed if they try and use it.This is the weakest heavy cavalry in the game and it costs the same as Vlandian knight (best cavalry).
Their armor is almost half of the knight, their lance is shorter with lower damage and horse armor is less as well.
Either decrease its price (which would make sense, since beduins are nomadic peoples and should be able to afford it cheaper) or buff them heavily.