[Amhazair]

How about just about anything you'd use against anything else? I just don't see what threat they pose to you.

If he's using them as archers (which is what I gather from your post) he's paying 30g for two bows with very poor precision. Spending the same gold on indy archers would give him 50% more firepower with better precision. (And almost the same amount of total hp with comparable armor, don't know where you get the "reasonable" protection comment from unless you're comparing them to lion tribes.)

And if he's using them in melee they have horrible protection & defence and are size 4, so they'll get creamed by anything at all.

The one thing they DO have going for them is that they do indeed have to decent melee attacks, so if a number of them is attacked by a few stragglers breaking through the frontline as often happens with archers they'll deal with them quickly. But if that's the best thing you can say about a unit, well...