Iberi Lanceari are the underperformers of the year [2007, afair].

I'm still bitter at them for their lack of capability to bring down a single unit of Sotaroas in one battle. (I had two units of the Lanceari charge a single unit of Sotaroas engaged in firing arrows in the rear, and in the charge I lost seven horsemen against three dead Sotaroas, and in the following ten-or-so seconds I lost eleven more horseman, and only four Sotaroas died. What are cavalry good for if they can't impale armourless troops in an open formation from the behind, eh?)

FMs tend to be AWSM! because of the über resilience (lots of armour, defence skill, discipline, moral, etc.), cataphracts have good staying power due to their armour (duh), light cavalry (javelins+high chage value -type) is pretty nifty, especially price considered, but of course, the best cavalry type there is... Is the horse archer, and in particular the rider-model. Whittle down your enemies with your arrows, exhaust them by forcing them to follow you while barely tiring yourself because of very good stamina, and then charge home from several directions with a little of micromanagement and voilà! Dinner's served. This works especially well with the eastern factions whose FMs tend to be either cataphracts (who can take out enemy FMs/charge units from the get-go) or cataphract HAs (who're like Horse Archer mk.IV*).

Also, let's state the obvious once more, combined arms (tend to be) are better than masses of a single unit. A few units of Leuces Epos with Brihentin/Remi Mairepos/Marhathegnoz is a pretty solid cavalry wing for a (western) barbarian faction, especially the Sweboz whose FMs fight as heavy infantry.

Can't say much about medium cavalry, for some reason I'ven't fielded them en masse, probably because I usually just either want HA/LC, or some "proper" heavy-hitting cavalry (I sure likes me sum armoured cavalrée).

That concludes my random ramblage of the day concerning cavalry use in EB, I haven't even played EB really for quite a bit (haven't played anything really for a few months, it's so darn hot [yes, even here in Finland]).


*mk.I = [sword/dagger-]horse archer, mk.II = lancer-horse archer, mk.III = [regular] cataphract-HA