Are Sicilians now too oppressive against archer civs ?

With the introduction of Hauberk (+1 / + 2 armor to cav) Sicilian Cavaliers now get total armor of 2 + 4 / 2 + 6.

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With 8 PA they now only take 2 damage from FU Arbalester (compared to 3 damage that FU Paladins take). This means it takes an Arbalester 70 shots to bring down a Sicilian Cavalier compared to 60 shots to bring down a Paladin (bear in mind that the Sicilian UT costs 500F 400G compared to Paladins 1300F, 750G).

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The kicker though is that the Sicilian Cavalier also gets the 50% anti bonus damage benefit meaning your standard FU Halberdier takes 7 hits to bring down a Sicilian Cavalier vs 5 for a regular FU Paladin. This is to say the Sicilian Cavalier is better than Paladins against archers and pikes whilst being significantly cheaper to tech into. To the best of my knowledge mass Halb spam is the only thing that is cost effective against Cavalier but then the Sicilians also have access to the Serjeant which is an epic trash killer (with the halb taking 29 hits to bring down a Serjeant).

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In the last 2 games I've played between Sicilians vs archer civs (me as Sicilians in 1 and against them in the other) this appears to be pretty OP though, I admit we probably need to wait for actual win rates before we can conclude anything meaningfully.