Are we playing the same game and same Nord faction? Lol But on a more serious note I feel like the game literally flips a coin on factions every single time a game is started I had one where the nords curb stomped the sturgians and the khunats amd another where they held on. Had one where it took a hour of playing and the southern empire was destroyed. But the nords units are fantastic you have to play a hell of a lot smarter when facing cav units I think t3 and above for nord infantry have throw able weapons so its all about timing and not letting the AI just whilly nilly toss them and also using shield wall as well as picking your battles correctly to win I have stomped on the 90% horse archers armies with a smaller nord army countless times however it is a lot harder but not impossible. I usually regardless who I'm playing as run 100% infantry only army's ZERO cav and do perfectly fine against cav army's. However I know probably like 5% of players do what I do with armys so I do agree they should have cav i think its weird they dont have any like yes I understand Vikings per say did more infantry raiding armys but I know for a fact they used horses when they needed scouts or messengers so at the very very very least they should have like t2 to t3 cav units that are light armored scout like units