Incredibly Broken

[Hooahguy]

Though as with skirmishers on foot if they arent micromanaged well they could also be attacked and easily destroyed.

[Sp4]

They are faster than foot skirmishers and have a much longer range, so they tend to be a bit better at automatically keeping range.

[Slaists]

Tarantine cavalry are not archers though. They're javelin cavalry.

As to archer cavalry, playing as Parthia I frequently ran into situations where my archer cavalry would charge directly into the attacker...

[Kamakazi]

it seems like something that would have been attended to by now honestly... I don't know how much we can do though