Melee Cobat is undewhelming

[Mangapower]

Equipping your Thralls with melee Weapons and Armor feels pointless. Ranged Units are way better at dealing Damage while not having to put themselves in Danger. Also not being able to train Melee Combat out of manually telling them to attack Animals is a big Disatvantage aswell. Archers automatically level Ranged Combat while Hunting. Having Trainingdummys and being able to assign Training Time on the Timetable to tell them to train 1 Hour each day would somewhat help with preparing them for Combat. Also Ranged Weapons are craftable early on and just require Wood.

[BENZ_PALADIN]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2995351957

If you designed appropriate battle field for unique melee unit with appropriate good perks of him, You may get a super warriors who can't be replaced by any archer!!

Here is my super speed perks melee hero,who can chop enemies like a storms.However I've paused the game from then for waiting developer to do anything about perks or skills inheritance. In case of he died,I hope there will be next genius generation like him to make a fun of game!!!

[BENZ_PALADIN]

There are many tips to use melee units. My main army are melee units.I use my archers
as decoy only to pin down their archers at the place I wish!!!
1 Ambushing archer with melee, When an archer is closely by his/her enemy he/she can only punch back not fire back!!!So try to separate enemies' melees and archers.Let your archers fire from the roof behind 2-3 merlons as decoys (archer can fire without blocking from objects 2 grids in front of him however I do with 3 merlons for guarantee no hurt of my archers).then let your melee hide in the building for ambushing their archers wait until they come near your building then let the ambush begin!!!.
PS.The most disadvantage battle field of range unit is in cave or maze!!
2 Using melee as assassin during battle,In this case you need super speed perks melee with very high melee skill and best sword.Let he face one by one at a time with your melee enemy. He/She can chop faster than them However do not let he/she handle more than 2 enemies at a time.2-hands sword is the fastest weapon which can do more damage per sec than any ranged weapon!!
Note: Although it might be not a good idea but it happen to me once. If you sure that his/her damage can do one-hit-one-kill you can even leave him/her facing your enemies in a line one by one alone.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3000079148
In the picture, I had no need to use any other melee units so they didn't need to hold weapon in their hand.
3 Using a gap like window or hole for a range advantage of each type of melee weapons. Berdiche is the longest range which can cross the gap more than 2-hands sword can cross an in front of hole of your melee and reach left and right as well(20 grids around melee). 2-hands sword range just can cross an in front of hole of your melee(12 grids).While 1 hand sword can't cross the hole,only reach around attacker (8 grids).
.....etc.

[.O.]

I do agree that rhe average melee unit is weaker than an archer. But that's kinda appropriate for the time period.

There's a reason why longbows dominated the day and then even knights got dominated by peasants carrying crossbows

[altomcorp]

agreed, All the hours I have played, on every difficultly lvl never needed melee. Not because I don't want to have them there's just no need. needs to be addressed not sure how thought. Yes building a warrior like Benz did is cool but with hundred plus raiders coming every year on high difficulty, the micro management most be tedious?

[FAIR]

Training dummies would be an incredible addition to the game.

[Cal]

good idea, or sparring matches between 2 people with wooden swords maybe.