Please allow me to add my 2 cents even though my copy of D2 has shipped but not yet arrived. LI should be unencumbered. By that I mean light weapons only and no armor. There would be two advantages. First, speed. They should be the poor mans cavalry with excellent flanking ability. Second, defense. They should be harder to hit than their more heavily armored (read slower) bretheren. I agree with the other points regarding refusing combat against slower attackers and a skirmish formation, if possible, to reduce any impact from ranged weapons/spells.
If all this is in the game already then just ignore this rambling.
