I agree with you that strength builds are more powerful in strat, but in what way?
Strength builds are the ultimate 1-shotters and kill stealers! They also work better in formation than agi builds do.
Since there's a lot of team wounding, arrows and such, str builds in full plate tend to live longer in these massive 70 on 70 melee encounters. You also can survive a nice lance hit that others might not. When you have 3 str guys focusing you swinging 3 different directions, you can't block all three at once, and then some tool (sometimes me
) comes up behind you with a +3 morningstar and ruins your day.
On the other hand there's things I did in that strat battle that heavy str builds couldn't.
I wasted a lot of cav's time going far left. They would chase me and I was able to avoid a lot of lances until PhantomZero started chasing me (he's a very accurate coucher). I was able to get to the enemy spawn about five times, and I killed at least one person, usually more, every time. My KD wasn't as high as some of the str build guys like Goretooth or some of the shielders, but I was keeping cav occupied, getting kills, keeping the guys at their flag on their toes. I was useful in more ways than what my KD showed.
But like I said, I think that STR builds are able to deal out more damage quickly, killing people faster which reduces the amount of damage they're able to do. They're able to survive lances that other build would not, enabling them to keep fighting. They can take more arrows, more bolts, and more melee hits, which occupies the enemy for longer and also gives them more time to whack another fool on the head with a morningstar.
Get into a one on one fight as a heavy STR build vs an agi build like me, and you might not win, but that's not what strat is about in most cases. It's about these huge head on infantry charges, battles of attrition involving cavalry in field battles, tons of archers in any case... and agi builds like me will always struggle under these circumstances, but str builds are built for them.