What do I build to counter High def glamour units?

[mivayan]

It wasn't so noticeable in Dom2 because magic and SCs were much more important and differences in national units quickly became irrelevant. But buffing up the importance of the national units has worked and those strong units really make a difference now.

I thought vans had had a boost even, in that the +3 from defence was new... but comparing to dom2, I see vans are almost identical. Only difference to dominions 2.02 is they now have +1 def and -1 prot because of the shield rule changes. The mounted bonus just wasn't spelled out before. I think you're right in your reasoning.