The all Horse Army

[Fisherking]

Granted in most battles I have only been able to auto resolve (my land battles with more than about six units per side never load properly), but I have had good success with stacks of 4 galloper 6 lb. guns, a couple of straight Cavalry and the rest Light Dragoons. They move well, though the Artillery still slows them some and they most importantly win battles. The Light Dragoons can skirmish and fire from horseback and force the enemy into squares while the cannon can use canister on the squares while dragoons fire into the enemy. Best of all they cover a lot of ground.

I have seen some of the light infantry can move almost as fast as dragoons but I have not experimented with them too much.

Best of all though is when you capture a region, you seldom need to worry about suppression.


Anyone else using an all horse assault force and having any luck?

[anweRU]

I never considered it. A good idea to try with my GB campaign - I should have had all the techs researched for it.

[Relic]

Sounds FUN!. I'll be sure to try creating one late into my current Dutch campaign.

[Dayve]

I might try a 50% cavalry force as Russia because the cavalry tradition was still strong in this period but i'd never do a 100% cavalry, especially not as any western nation.

[JRCDave]

I will try a all horse army. I like the Indian units. I will put together some Indian lancers with Calvary and dragoons. Some 6lbers also. I will go after the Persians next. Thanks for the Idea.

[Dayve]

A full stack made out of those Indian (Innuit?) Lancers would conquer the world.

Srsly, they're overpowered as hell.

[SNIAPS]

I made some experiments on MTW and MTW2 with full cavalry divisions. It required a lot of micromanagement and "hit and run" tactics but they proved to be extremenly powerfull divisions. Very expensive to maintain though.