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    Manuevering and the proper implementation of light or medium cavalry in strength. You have to have enough to be able to take some casualties when closing and still be able to break them. They should be fairly cheap with a wide AOR to quickly replace the inevitable losses they will take.

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    When i was playing as Pahlava and facing enemies with large numbers of archers i simply put my cavalry in a super loose formation and went about my business as usual. When an opportunity to attack the archers safely opens up, do so with your general. Your generals cavalry is extremely slow so it takes quite a long time to get to the archers, but once you do it's game over for them.

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    And if you're feeling real daring, charge with the normal HAs. The computer will always try and back archers up so you can generally charge in quickly and keep them from firing. Even better, you can actually briefly engage them in melee then withdraw thus allowing you to back off just enough so that you are not actually melee-ing but the computer still tries.
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    As Pahlava, I usually just charge with the medium horse archer/ med cav cross (Asabaran-i-Dehbed) or Dahae nobles, reg HAs target infantry, riders chase enemy HAs (if there are any, if not they double as regular HAs), and FM's/ Catas go for the General/ other Cav. As Saka, I usually send the Noble HAs after them, they can stand up to arrow fire a bit better than the light HAs and have pretty good stamina. I like using the Asabaran best for this because they are faster than the Dahae or Early Saka nobles.

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    cantabrian circle!!
    worked well for me. sometimes (when there´s no enemycav) i let them shot some arrows and then stop shooting - effect: the cantabrian cricle is still rotating and the enemy archers fire there amo with little effect to zero.
    after that: ...breakfast...
    Last edited by Tartaros; 12-22-2008 at 13:22.

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    Yes, the cantabrian circle is like a magic charm against arrows. Even more effective is a cavalry charge once the little gits are already engaged however. This is because the first unit to engage will often not get the charge to impact due to the archers skirmishing, but the second (and subsequent) units always will. If you time it right then there will be very little time spent in actual melee and casualties should be light.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cambyses View Post
    Yes, the cantabrian circle is like a magic charm against arrows. Even more effective is a cavalry charge once the little gits are already engaged however. This is because the first unit to engage will often not get the charge to impact due to the archers skirmishing, but the second (and subsequent) units always will. If you time it right then there will be very little time spent in actual melee and casualties should be light.
    That's why I like the Asabaran-i-Dehbed, they are fast enough to charge THROUGH an archer unit. I then turn them around to face the now disorganized archers while charging a second unit (can be riders, FM, whatever- as long as it has a decent charge) in. The archers are now in the unenviable position of running toward either of 2 charging units of cavalry (all of which double as horsearchers-so they are firing on the archers during the approach).

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