I picked up this mod recently, and was getting my viking on, conquering up the coast of Norway, when I get attacked by the Vestfold. 1000 men to my 700, I figure I should be able to hold the settlement. I split my army up to hold the two lanes the enemy was coming down, everyone starts getting into combat an- Holy hell how are my men dropping so fast?!
A full unit of Vikingr were cut down to around 40 before they got into charge range when I figured out what was happening. Each time they fired their bows 4-6 of my Hirddmen would bite the dust from arrows fired into the front of the unit! Not including all the other men from other units in the same general mash-up.
In the lane with the archers, about 450 men including my general were wiped out to a man.
In the lane without them, by the time everyone else was finished dying my unit of second tier spear men had 137 of 150 men left.
I understand archers are powerful, but with the armor values of this game I was not expecting it to be like charging goblins at an elven archer unit in TATW.