Archers are OP. Horse archers are totally EZ-mode ridiculous OP.
But the reason they field so many recruits is because they just keep spawning with them. The winner-takes-all nature of battles wherein the loser loses their entire army needs to be fixed.
Maybe instead they could do something where the soldiers that are captured by the winning side are ransomed back to that lord once he is free. This way he comes back with an army, although smaller obviously, and he has to pay for it.



