This is what I love about this game. From minor disagreements, you learn little nuggets of info!
I normally hate humans, but um. Horsemen are extremely extremely good and were my #1 damage dealer in my last playthrough.
The Drill also works on them now (I vaguely recall it did not in Armored Princess).
Although I 'abused' the rune mages for it, ultimately I found the horsemen were the ideal shock units instead of my Rangers as assault units (until I got 100% crit but that was so late in the game).
There are no lizard armies in here, yeah? Yes, I'm curious on experimenting with the other races. If I can withstand "losses", I'm even more curious in carrying a large contingent of excess reserve units.
Just started my 2nd playthrough as a Soothsayer/Mage and I must say the synergy of vikings is INSANE. I can't see how anyone would say they are terrible. Skalds mass buff/debuff, excessive rune of luck ... sure other builds might be a bit more efficient but it wasn't terrible by any stretch of the imagination.
By the way, did anyone even SEE peasants for sale? A single stack of peasants even with losses would be... somewhat humorous?