Hello,
At this moment there is nothing that can help against a spam of Arc cav, backed up properly with strong cav, handled by a good player. Even if You setup in a forest, in large formation, having 2 Monks Bows, they will kill You just by arrows, if they are good and keep shooting and escaping back when your archer fire, to avoid losses. And at the end will comes out with the musk cav, to finish the rest.
The regular horse archers has been capped to 3 units, but was not considered the introdution of another bow cav, the Samurais. So actually people can come in battle with 3 horse bow, plus 3-4 or more bow cav samurai, with a set of 7-8 horse archers at least.
And another problem is that upped cavalry (specially Katana) is too strong and can win even into a forest camping with spears, unless you come up in game with at least 6-8 spears, but using 6-8 spears will result as a bad setup against swords. The game is actually broken in this.
To be better balance, the fact the arc cav is not hitten by arrows when escaping must be removed or reduced. Or the cover bonus in the forest must be increased.
Also the melee factor in forest for the cav must be penalized more.
I can accept a cavalry setup winning on flat ground, but is unacceptable they win on forest.
As right now it's an automatical win on open ground, and high chance win even versus forest defender, for a cavalry player, versus a balanced army.
I hope this will be addressed and corrected soon.
I posted this also on Totalwar.com :
http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...e-bow-cav-spam
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