"Disable manual blocking on all lances"
Are you serious? When you look at the people ingame, they as good as never block on the horse efficently, blocking thrust attacks is the only thing cavalery can do properly.
About the damage: Be realistic, if a horse comes up to you in fullspeed and the guy on it stabs you with all his strengh with a lance (which isn´t light at all), you would probably die even with a heavy armor because of the impact, which deformes the armor. A lot of knights died on the field because they couldn´t breathe anymore due to their deformed armor. But the poke shouldnt be nearly as strong as the couchattack if it was realistic, that´s right. But also don´t forget that you can block that "mighty poke" easily, because you can always hear the upcoming horse and prepare yourself.
And if cavalery pisses you off, make yourself an archer, or better, horsearcher. Not even pikes bring down more horses than a horse archer.
So I only agree with this when horse archers are removed from the game
. That´s something which
I think is unfair. The balance all in all is great as it is now.
