Archers isnt good at this time.Buy a arena shield and move him.He will very very slow bacause he is peasant and heavy arrow weight.
Throwers are bit strong at eu5 I agree.You can one shot most of enemies (no armor low hp).But they cant take too much and weaker at melee.
That is what you think.
Those guys i were fighting were better then Hearst and Chase together in melee. Dude blocks 15 attacks in row and almoust never miss one block for all night and after pressing X for secondary mode guy spam me and i have scimitar and 125 wpf in one hand.
I go with mw elite cav shield and PanPAn brake it with 2 throwing axes and then head shot me.
They were owning everyone on server i killed one thrower guy ony once for whole night,and he killed me like 100 times. I killed him when i left for my other polearm char,as 1h he was unbeatable.
Only guy who beated me like this is Pyrex and his hafted blade. No mater gear i pick or shield they camp hill and while i get up there shield is gone,and i am killed by ranged or spammed buy thrower/archers in melee. I admit i am not great melee fightier,but i am fucking average i am gen 17 those guys were unstopable with their throwing and pew pew.
One team have all ranged,other team have all inf without shields,and ranged camp and destroy us.