Re: Epirote General's Bodyguard steamrolling everthing?
The "Sacred Band Cavalry" is actually a two handed lance unit, IIRC there's a problem with the animations (because they're using small shields) so they're shown as one handed.
It's nonsense that cavalry shown as one handed lancers is bad, it all depends on lethality, attack and charge bonus. All lancers have something between 0.33 and 0.40 lethality, 27 and 47 charge bonus and a low attack (3-6 or something). One handed lancers are often on the lower end, two handed with armoured horses at the upper end and two handed without armoured horses or only lightly armoured horses are in between. Though all of them can deliver a dangerous charge.
Sacred Band, Lonchophoroi (hellenic med) and the dacian bodyguard all have 0.38 lethality like all two-handed non-cataphract heavy cav (including Epeiros Molosson Agema).
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