Strat = Full plate wearing strength builds glancing off each other for an hour. Unless you bring the ez mode pikes and mauls. It is incredibly boring and lame, I always have more fun in the beginning of strat when the gear is more diverse and the players can't crutch on gear.
It was pretty fun back then, to use the multitude of equipment that LLJK looted off that weebo clan or Norse Hordes AXES ONLY NO CROSSBOWS, CAUSE THAT'S NOT RPING gear. When Tretter sneak attacked our village, there was a bit of a flash back to that, too.