I'm going to bump this again.
I spend almost all of my time in-game dodging either missiles or cav. I get maybe a minute, if I'm lucky, of melee combat in a round; and that's why most of us are here, right, the melee combat mechanics?. I can't speak for other melee players but battle simply isn't fun for me any more. We need one of these servers over here. Put "NA_Melee" in the name, copy-paste the EU rules and make it 24/7 melee. I doubt you'd have problems keeping it alive then. We already have at lease one volunteer for admin'ing it too.