Feeling useless in Hard mode!

[Pandabomber]

I only recently re-specialized to Commando (going Cav for what little melee oriented stats I can scrap together for the rest of it), and I'm already tired of being a meatshield or, in general, being useless. The developers aren't a fan of the closed-in shieldwall on any of the small corridor maps like Town (which nobody likes anymore), so what exactly is my role if the other two classes can achieve anything I do more efficiently, if the shieldwall isn't allowed?

That's literally all I could do on maps like those - no room to maneuver, and you fight most of the enemy at once. Even on the more open ones like Village, when I have some room to move around, there's nothing stopping the knights from kiting a giant mob of Nords and having the snipers pick them off. Approaching that mob to draw one away from the pack so I can contribute somewhat is still a risky affair; Ranged anything will headshot me from anywhere, or nobody can or will save my ass from drawing 5 Nords that run faster than I do.

Infantry is in a poor state and no longer fills any role on the field. The closest one I can think of is maybe shielding an archer on one of their blind sides. But that being all I can do? Might as well be a red shirt on normal mode, I'm more useful there.