fit and fade anyone?

[Brutus]

With the Scipii I was too impatient to march infantry through North Africa from Carthage to Egypt, so I send large cavalry armies ahead (General, Equites/Roman Cavalry and some cavalry auxilia or Numidian Mercenaries).

A nice tactic (against bigger armies) I found is first luring some of the enemy army (preferably their cavalry, if they have some) away with your skirmish cavalry while the equites etc. attack seperate groups of infantry of archers. When you do this with 3 groups of cavalry at a time the infantry will follow one of your groups while the other 2 attack from behind. It takes quite a bit of manouvering but it worked quite well for me, considering the mediocre Roman cavalry...I've been scoring heroic victories all the time!

[Mikeus Caesar]

Hm.....i prefer to keep my cav in lines with this tactic. Put them in straight lines, about 4-5 deep. Having a line of cavalry suddenly push into you is quite effective and devestating to the enemy's moral. And when used against peasants, it's highly effective, making them route in about 2-5 seconds.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I prefer to use mixed armies, because I love to watch large infantry melees and with proper cavalry tactics you can still win by a large margin.