Im spoke about EU and I didnt said that archers are useless, ofc. I would hire as much as I can )
I'm saying if you don't hire shielders, advancing and taking any village already owned by another faction would become near-suicide due to the hailstorm that you lack the shields to advance on. 2Hers are great for shock troops and going into the frey and keeping up the momentum, but without shielders to push that first advance, things get messy very quickly.
The Fallen scored some absurdly easy victories in the past when we fought foes trying to take villages who did not have any substantial amount of shielders, simply because we threw up a hailstorm of projectiles.
My response was about when you said:
Most shielders cant get good kd, some shielders can get good kd on eu1, few shielders from time to time in strategus.
If I had to equip my army in strategus I would not buy anything for shielders and would not hire any, maybe only Itosai and Dalhi.