Will cavalry be usable in this mod?

[Ibrahim]

If anything cavalry is too flexible in EB1. They are flexible enough to pull out of an engagement against enemy cavalry without much difficulty, which is complete nonsense.

All units, once committed, should have difficulty extracting themselves from the fight in an orderly fashion, especially against an enemy of the same speed, or even those of slightly slower. Such a maneuver should either be the result of a temporary rout, or if the unit doesn't break it should at least loose cohesion and suffer quite some casualty in the maneuver.

indeed.

but one must, most unfortunately, deal with the game mechanics, among other things.

[Ca Putt]

Cavalry is very devastating in M2TW the EB team will most likely see to weakening it a bit but still cavalry will probably be very dangerous to non spear units.
And Hoplitai haploi do tend to surprise the player. In a fairly decisive battle they saved my army from certain defeat by killing of 3 elephants (while loosing only 5 men themselves). so don't underestimate levy hoplites!!!

Important for cavalry to unfold their full potential is to give them enough space to take up speed before charging, as mentioned in the linked threads.

[Fluvius Camillus]

Cavalry is very devastating in M2TW the EB team will most likely see to weakening it a bit but still cavalry will probably be very dangerous to non spear units.
And Hoplitai haploi do tend to surprise the player. In a fairly decisive battle they saved my army from certain defeat by killing of 3 elephants (while loosing only 5 men themselves). so don't underestimate levy hoplites!!!

Important for cavalry to unfold their full potential is to give them enough space to take up speed before charging, as mentioned in the linked threads.

Haploi are one of the best levy troops, along with persian archers.

The Statement that cavalry is useless is really made out of thin air. Go play a faction like Pahlava and you'll be amazed what cavalry can do!

~Fluvius

[Cute Wolf]

Just try receiving a full stack saka army and then said what did you get.... Easy Battle or Nightmare?