I definitely find myself very disappointed by the performance of the cheiroballista at the moment. They no longer get buffed by (most) siege techs, but nor do they benefit from techs other ranged units do. They perform relatively better in larger groups, which is fine and what you’d expect, but they don’t improve by as much as you would hope as army sizes increase. Bennoloth’s idea of giving their attack pass-through like ballistas is one I quite like.