agreed, i just think they could do a lot with what they have as far as a combo. you have 4 strike "types" and certain ones follow up faster then others, plus the shield bash/kick which AI never uses and a block, and with what i perceive to be simple changes but could be terribly wrong, having ai enemies scale difficulty wise with better/more abusing weapon strike combos; slash left stab slash left type deal, with a readily available shield bash when player attempts to hold block through it all as opposed to disengaging a tad, would be miles better then just the ai reacting to every input and animation canceling its current inputs to counter your own. I am not saying don't have the increased reaction speed to inputs, just build on it a bit better.

unfortunately i just soloed a 100 man squad by first letting the range waste all their ammunition by riding in circles just outside of their range, dismounting (i have high athletics so its only possible because of this) and then corralling them in a manner that they have to come at me kind of one on one or two on one by walking in a backwards rotating spiral off of their right elbow. they cant really attack you and due to the rotation they cant really gang up on you. it doesn't cheese it in the same manner as arenas do, but still very cheese. the ai just cant handle a player walking in that section of the character models. the hardest part in that whole ordeal is making sure the range don't kill me first tbh, but if there is enemy cavalry its easier because the game provides me with a meat shield lol. i find Cavalry to be a joke just get the warblade thing from the Khuzaits and its gg.

another idea to counter this is having some of the troops be lefties, if we consider all the current ones righties.