Norse Lands: Knights will not recruit more than one archer each

[CalanthaeRex]

This makes it impossible to defeat portals. Tried accumulating archers both before and after recruiting knights, but each of my knights refuses to pick up more than one archer as a follower.

[kimakida]

Only archers with round shields can stand behind the knight.

[Shroud]

A completely unnecessary and unwelcome change imo, there was nothing wrong with the way of recruiting knight squads in the other biomes.

Now it is another money sink, and the major problem is you need to expand a great deal before the shield maker house appears and even then is very buggy and does'nt spawn most of the time...

I have also noticed upon reaching Island 6 that the portals are so damn close to you it is almost impossible to expand unless you bring knights from the previous island. If you lose those its game over as you won't be able to expand and get the shieldmaker.