Pontic Heavy Cavalry

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Originally Posted by Craterus

Also, heavy cavalry kinda screams MELEE at you.

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not really, is the pontic light cavalry now light melee cavalry because of its name? no. heavy is the more armoured version of the pontic light cavalry, which says to me it is missile.

both light and heavy versions use missiles, so because one is heavy armoured it becomes melee? not in my book.

my use of elite was in the context that i couldn't think of a better javalin cavalry unit.

please understand im not arguing for arguments sake, i used to think they were melee, and argued every point thats been posted but then i looked at it from BOTH sides and decided that the points for them being missile was much stronger.

@ Tibilicus: I know the effect of javelins, especially before a CHARGE (which would indicate melee).

with a charge (and melee attack) that is weaker than Sythian Noble Women or Sythian Noble Archers.... are they now melee as well?

I reckon a better question would be: Are Cataphract Archers melee cavalry or horse archers?

definately horse archers, no question.

Yes, but the melee capabilities are almost as strong as regular cataphracts.

Nothing can replace cataphracts. They are the ultimate Pikemen-braking-archer-crushing-cavalry-of-doom :dizzy2:

cataphract archers do not have the bonus` against armour that regular cats do, they can be used to bolster a cav battle by flanking but you would never use them as an actual melee cav wing, unless your only up against something like Greek light cav lol