I tend to use peasant armies, actually...if they're supported properly, they deal out some damage, and act as a nice cushion for heavier hitting units to attack without getting slaughtered.
By the way, it's my thought-factual or otherwise-that lasso-men would carry more than one lasso into battle, maybe as many as 3 of them.
Endoperez, if you could transcribe your conversation with your father, (preserve it for posterity?) I for one would love to know the details.
