Quote Originally Posted by Morindin
Go check out the screenshots thread in the entrance hall. You will see a screenshot posted by me.

It contains a group of Praeton or whatever Cavalry charging into the flank of a group of Sacred Band, while they [the sacred band] are engaging and pinned by Legions.

Let me tell you something, not only did I take heavy loses, but the Sacred Band took minimal loses and it took a volly of pilums for them to break.

According to you, the Sacred band should have broken and routed right then. Didnt happen.
Seen that screenshot, that was a small generals cavalry unit, not a main cavalry unit. In fact I think the generals cavalry unit is much more balanced than real cavalry, due to its smaller size. I also believe I said in my original post that infantry is only good for defending and conducting sieges, cavalry for everything else, and as that was a siege, my point still holds firm. In a siege it is difficult to get a good run to build up enough speed to crash into the back of a unit, and so the charge momentum is reduced. But you're STILL missing my point. Cavalry is so cheap it can be fielded in large amounts. The best way to counter cavalry is to pin it with one unit then charge with another. Thats a minimum of two units to defeat one unit of cavalry. What are the other cavalry units doing? Charging into the back of whatever unit is attacking the pinned cavalry unit. And thats not even mentioning cavalry with a missile attack. Here is a quick table in which you can see just how cheap cavalry really is

Hastati/Iberian Infantry upkeep per unit - 170 per man - 2.125
Town Watch/Militia Hoplite upkeep per unit - 100 per man - 1.25
Equites upkeep per unit - 110 per man - 2.037
Macedonian Cavalry/Light Lancers upkeep per unit - 140 per man - 2.59

Many of the other units follow these amounts, light infantry being around 170, light cavalry being in the region of 120-140 and militia being 100. Now, to repeat myself a THIRD time, how is that balanced? Why on earth is cavalry cheaper to maintain than light infantry? It is just as easy to get too. Not to mention that cavalry has a much larger move on the campaign map too. Elephants ar every strong too. They are not overpowered I believe because of their very high cost. Now I will say it again, this time even in a new paragraph so you get the point

relative to cost, cavalry is easily the most effective units in the game. They need to be more expensive.