How do you use cavalry?

[Lucius Verenus]

Another question is why GB don't have lancers.

Historically Two regiments of lancers existed in 1700 and another 2 by 1720, actually they still have them - 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wale's) and The Queen's Royal lancers (Amalgamated 5th,16th,17th,21st)

The 17th formed part of the Light brigade that made the infamous charge at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean war - which incidentally though shot at by Artillery on three sides managed to reach the guns they shouldn't have been attacking and drive back the Russian cavalry behind the guns. This was with c650 men in total.

Now that scenario might actually work in ETW given the rubbish guns.

For that matter I havent seen any Hussars either. Though the 8th was formed in 1693

As for what they do have in ETW, Dragoons is the best multipurpose cav unit

Somone else pointed out that in ETW cavalry will attack Formed Squares, bet Marshal Ney at Waterloo would have loved that -

Horses will NOT attack a line of sharp pointy things - having much more sense than humans

One day my sig will come

[Prussian to the Iron]

just because they had a ew units of cavalary doesn't justify giving them lancers. most nations dont have them either.

and if you use the AUM mod, many factions get more units (like hussars), mos t of which are non-faction specific (you can recruit blunderbuss shotgunners in moscow, london, and any city inbetween)

[Didz]

Historically Two regiments of lancers existed in 1700 and another 2 by 1720, actually they still have them - 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wale's) and The Queen's Royal lancers (Amalgamated 5th,16th,17th,21st)

I think you've been misled by the rather inaccurate wording used in the history of these regiments who are keen to trace their origins back as far as possible.

In fact:

5th Royal Irish Lancers - Did not become lancers until 1861, they claim to trace their origins back to Wynnes Dragoons 1715.

9th Queens Royal Lancers - Also claim to have been Wynne's Dragoons but did not become lancers until 1816.

12th Royal Lancers - claim they are descended from the 12th Dragoons but were not armed with lances until 1816.

16th The Queens Lancers - claim they are descended from the 16th Light Dragoons, but were not armed with lances until 1816.

17th Lancers (The Duke of Cambridge's Own) - claim they are descended from the 18th Light Dragoons (Hale's Light Horse), but did not receive lances until 1822.

21st Lancers (Empress of India's) - claim they are descended from an East India Company Regiment called the 3rd Bengal European Light Cavalry, they did not become a lancer regiment until 1897.

So, as you can see the earliest appearance of lancers in the British Army was in 1816, beyond the timeline of ETW, although there might have been some sepoy lancers employed by 'The Company' in India prior to that date.

[oz_wwjd]

This may be slightly off-topic but I've found that once the rank-fire skill is researched,any infantry that's gets it seems to own calvary,due to the amount of volleys they can get off,but that's if the said calvary aren't micromanaged correctly.