The mod is dying.
Development of this mod is going way too slow. Combine that with the fact that most of the devs are just plain idiots and you got a dying mod.
From patch to patch you keep "balancing" items, you take a 42cut damage sword and turn it to 43, woohoo go devs, you sure did make a nice job. It is just pointless. Keep the things like they are now. You could have kept them as they were in .200, .220, .230, .240, it doesnt matter, it would be same shit. Changing it constantly is pointless. No matter what you do, things are gonna be the same, your whole balancing progress is just a nerf after nerf, bringing down the fun. Cavalry will always be over powered, archers will always be annoying, ALWAYS. And how about xbows, only item that was always been truly overpowered without any logic in it, avoids nerfeing for ages. Dev like xbow, dev no nerf it huur duur.
You are just developing too slow, it took you 6 months just to reboot old strategus?! All hopes for saviour of this mod lay in 1.grinding mentality of players(for which you dont have to do anything, you just have to watch and do nothing, and from what i see your doing a good job. 2. strategus, and what is strategus, its everything but a interesting and fun persistent campaign. It should have been cool inovative and fun when you put it on paper, but when you do it, it doesnt even get near that. Its just a plain map with tons of clans hybernating for some time, and when everyone has accumulated some troops they capture ai villages, towns and castle and then its done. You are looking at the map with differently coloured squares. Wheres the fun in strategus? Being a big clan and grinding more troops then all other small clans would do together and knowing noone can beat you? is that fun? or being a small clan and not having chances against any bigger clan? o boy that sure is fun. Only good part of strategus are actuall battles, we remember them as a place where you could do some serious teamwork and have fun.
Strategus is idea that cant be done properly, at least not for a free mod of a not so famous game. It just doesnt work. As long as you have grinding, you will have players, but we all know its just sad.
Best thing for Warband communty would be destruction of crpg. And forcing grinders to play other, way better mods then this.