Cavalry attacks - in case you didn´t know

[Husar]

I just checked some stats, most spear-armed cav have swords as secondaries, swords have no armour piercing, but a few get +2 attack for using swords. But even if they don´t get any bonus for their secondary weapon I think it could be still worth using it because I got the impression that the attack-rate of those short weapons is higher(shorter animation) and so they can do more damage in the same period of time.

edit: it´s getting better I just gave some roman cav only one attack order with ALT and watched them charge with lances and then switch to swords immediately, guess that makes micromanagement superfluous.
But now I have to get some sleep, good night and have fun.