Let's talk about cavalry

[Aaldaemon]

Ragon Sauromatae Uaezdaettae (Sarmatian Noble Horse-Archers). Recruitable by Romans too... Dahyu Siraca = one place you can get them... but well playing historically you'll never get there no?

These are my standard recruitable demons of death in my campaign... Not the best melee cavalry, but competent enough... they're basically mobile armored artillery. Heavy horse archers are in my opinion the very best and most versatile type of unit in game. As a Romani player you can just set up your battleline far far from the enemy, then flank them with these horsies, have them move behind the enemy battle line, fire arrows away at the advancing enemy behinds... then when you run out of arrows, or they engage your battle line....chaaaaaaaaaaaarge! =devastation. If they send cavalry against you...you can always kite it for a while peppering it with arrows before turning on them and spearing them to death... even when playing without retraining like you do, these babies will harvest exp chevrons, and when they're at 3silver+............................DEATH. To put it simply... an army melts like chocolate under their arrow fire... then you make chocolate shish kebab.

EDIT: Simple test: 1 unit of scythian nobles(AI) = decent cavalry vs 1 my Sarmatian nobles. Did nothing truly fancy, just kite /arrow fire then in the end /charge.



Now this result is actually very bad... because this is a unit with no initial blacksmith upgrade or any exp... after upgrades and exp... as I said... chocolate shish kebab.