Arverni Campaign

[WinsingtonIII]

leucos epos the illirian light cavalry and the dahe riders are my favourite light cavalry

i mean seriously have you ever builded an army of combined cavalry arms ? heavy medium light skirmishing, it totally rocks the greater hability to manouvre get regiments without suport and anihilate them one by one while loosing very few troops in comparison

hell i even destroyed an argys silver shields dudes with 3 units of dahe riders by always hitting them from 2 sides as the other one draw their attention (note i was already out of arrows by now since killing katraphacts is not as easy as it sounds )

you should give it a try making 5-6 units of cavalry from all sorts and use them to destroy entire roman full stacks (always kill the general 1st tough and then their cavalry units )

Well Illyrian light cavalry and Dahae riders are not javelin cavalry. I was only saying that I personally think javelin cavalry are a bit underpowered, particularly in terms of how many kills they get with their javelins compared to javelin troops on foot (probably just a matter of smaller unit size). I love Illyrian light cavalry, they are one of my favorite cavalry units in the game, because they are fast, hard-hitting, and have axes for melee. Dahae riders (I assume you are actually referring to the horse-archer Dahae riders and not the javelin throwing Dahae skirmisher cavalry) have proven to be quite good in my Baktria campaign, although fighting with horse-archers is not my favorite style. The only type of light cavalry I don't particularly like is javelin cavalry, horse-archers and other light cavalry I've generally had favorable experiences with.

Of course, I don't use javelin cavalry very often. I may have just had some unlucky instances with them. I'm planning on trying out the Leuce Epos again and to start using javelin cavalry more in my other campaigns where it is appropriate (meaning in campaigns where horse-archers do not dominate the battlefield). But, anyways, we are really getting off-topic, so this is the last am I going to post on the subject of javelin cavalry here.