Quote Originally Posted by barabinni
Are these heavily armored tarantine cavalry untis in EB ? I'm curious.

And i think it's entierly understandable that people would get confused over the whole naming of these units. But now today i'd be interested what makes a easter cat. a cat. but a wester heavily armored cavalry not cat.

cat. = Cataphract
Now how much time did you save by abbreviating 'cataphract', and how much time did you lose by explaining your abbreviation?

Silly people, trying to save two seconds of their time with silly, unnecessary abbreviations, bleh.

As for the subject itself, I myself, as a person with little actual information about the composition of Pyrrhus' invading force, greatly doubt the claims of Pyrrhus using cataphracts, as we tend these days to use the word, in his army, but that , rather, he simply indeed employed some perhaps more-armoured-than-usual cavalry, which lead to the use of word to describe these units.