Chariots.... any good?

[Somebody Else]

Interesting idea a friend of mine proposed for using chariots - that is, those that are capable of the cantabrian circle manouevre. If they remain on this, and get engaged - they should keep moving through rather than being bogged down. I suppose the same would work with cataphract archers...

[jerby]

I loving the chariots,
you shouldn't use them with sieges of bridges or inside your own line ( will be disrupted)
I ahd a situation inside a city, were a bunche of HA's got trapped between my phanlanx and the charging S chariots. they chose the chariots, the battle was 3 seconds... They may not be a powerfull as elephants, but can be trained everywhere(!), and with 2 HP they are a goog rundown-opponent for HA's
against inf they arrent the best, but disrupting a phalanx form the flank is nice when your got your own phalanx about to fight.
the are also quite capable of kamikaziing, since they can be reatrained in any settlement with a armory(!) so they are a nice canonfodder with extraordenary capabillities.

[Zorn]

Charriots just own cavalery.
Especially generals.

The trick is, every time they would just knock down a foot soldier, the horse dies instantly. Even if the charriots are routing, they still kill cav. All they have to do ist touch them, the scythes will do the rest.
What makes this so powerful is my assumption that this totally ignores hitpoints. So a general with 7 HP dies just as fast as a light cavallery. This makes them totally lethal general assasins.

They are the ideal cav-counters.