No heavy cavalry for pontus, why?

[Atraphoenix]

Pontus is fun to play and very suitable both for roleplaying and also for blitzing. :yes:
But as far as I know they were a persian origin dynasty. So in theory they should have heavy cavalry.
In EDU they have only cappadokian medium cavalry and is piece of cake for armenian or parthian cataphracts.
I have no idea wether it is designed like that intentionally by the team for historical accuracy or not enough unit cards with exes.

It is just a wish pontus is very popular. I like her but as she has no heavy cavalry mostly I stick with Parthians for that reason.

[Tyrfingr]

Pontus get access to Kinsmen Heavy Cavalry in Hayasdan, Sophene, Abdurbadegan, Media, Elymais, Persis, Parthava & Khoarene. They will do the work of heavy cavalry...

[The Persian Cataphract]

The Pontic kingdom indeed gets heavy cavalry, and a roster of heavy horse which is quite comparable to the Seleucids, Macedonians and the Sarmatians, and includes chariots. Now, granted I would have wanted to see some kind of Lycian extra-heavy cavalry in there somewhere... But as it is right now, the Pontic have a roster leaning strongly between medium and heavy ranges.

[polehammer]

Atraphoenix,

To win the battles with Pontos in early game it is more than enough to have in each stack:

- One unit of Khuveshavagane Shanvar (general),
- One unit of Katpatuka Asabara (though called "medium", they are very good and versatile unit, better than most of "medium cavalry" of their opponents),
- One unit of Harmata Drepanephora (battle winners for Pontos, just use them in the right moment and right place).

In late game you can use Khuveshavagan from Hayasdan regions too.

[Atraphoenix]

Thanks :2thumbsup:
maybe out of topic but I used hellenic offices for pontus in my mod. Did they use persian in the court or both greek, any idea?
I know their dynasty was a persian origined one like Hayasdan.
BTW I hope team will add offices for each factions in EB2 at least known ones mostly non nomadic or barbaric (in fact it is under debate who is barbaric) so I can play more than modding :laugh4: