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Quote Originally Posted by Grade_A_Beef View Post
Don't get me wrong, I switch my cavalry to secondaries as well. I'm just saying that the high lethality lances are the best against horses or TABs at the cataphract level of armor.

I tend to avoid sending my heavy cav to fight AI opponent heavy cav (though I have no qualms about it in MP, if I can ever figure out how to use hamachi) because heavy cav tend to have high armounts of armor. With armor halved (by AI default lances) they can be comparable to some medium cavalry like Tarabostes. IMO I'd prefer to preserve my heavy cavalry for use against stationary general units or heavy infantry/pikes and let axemen and Dahae deal with cataphract cavalry. High skill dampens the deadly effect of AP, and on top of all they're much much cheaper than heavy cav or other cataphract cav.

I don't have any fast units able to take their charge however, but a slight skirmish from the charge usually changes "charging" to "pursuing" and makes them much easier to deal with a split second later....

That and I don't trust any pikemen without axes to deal with cataphract cavalry. None at all. Pantodapoi Phalangitai and Machimoi are probably the only pikemen I use when facing off against that sort of cavalry. I learned my lesson the hard way when the Baktrian BG caused huge casualties to my Agryspides but got slaughtered mainly by my Pantodapoi Phalangitai right next to the Agryspides. Both took significant casualties but one was cheaper and much easier to replace....


What's this TAB abbreviation I keep hearing? and Hamachi is simple enough, but limiting and restraining. Tunngle is not working at the moment, it's not on our side. Refer to my post here to learn more about Wippien. I used to think it was a Hamachi clone but I did my homework. We need people to get themselves signed into that and add each other (we'll be forming a list of people with Wippien accounts) {off-topic, but just replying to your Hamachi note}.