A missile cavalry thread, plus melee cav

[Vladimir]

Thanks for letting us know. It is good to see.

Playing Venice I would shed a tear every time I lost a single horse archer. Importing them from Antioch isn't cheap!

[phonicsmonkey]

Thanks for letting us know. It is good to see.

Playing Venice I would shed a tear every time I lost a single horse archer. Importing them from Antioch isn't cheap!

I know I guess I'm just spoiled by Broken Crescent where my Seljuks would tear through multiple stacks of ERE and Georgian infantry/ foot missiles, stopping only to reload.

I'm determined to figure out HAs in this game though: I'm now experimenting with mixed all-cav stacks and mixed HA/infantry stacks.

I don't find them particularly effective against cavalry I have to say, despite what you say: they don't seem to fire backwards, unlike HAs in M2TW and RTW so being chased by yari cav is not the relaxed experience it could be...

[Vladimir]

I know I guess I'm just spoiled by Broken Crescent where my Seljuks would tear through multiple stacks of ERE and Georgian infantry/ foot missiles, stopping only to reload.

I'm determined to figure out HAs in this game though: I'm now experimenting with mixed all-cav stacks and mixed HA/infantry stacks.

I don't find them particularly effective against cavalry I have to say, despite what you say: they don't seem to fire backwards, unlike HAs in M2TW and RTW so being chased by yari cav is not the relaxed experience it could be...

I've always had problems getting BC to work on my computer. Now my M2 disc is broken. My brief Armenia campaign was fun.

I'm still waiting a bit to buy S2. How is the Date clan? It looks like they have good cavalry.

[phonicsmonkey]

How is the Date clan? It looks like they have good cavalry.

Actually I have no idea - I'm only on my first full campaign still (if you don't count the two failed attempts at Takeda on VH/VH and my mod vs mod with Zim).

I don't have enough time to play games these days...

I think Takeda are the faction with the best cavalry but their starting position is tougher than some.