Roman counter cav in MP

[NihilisticCow]

LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix - Your definition of light cavalry seems to include two completely different types - you list Desert cavalry and Head Hunting Maidens which are armour piercing melee cavalry, which are very effective in killing armoured units, and then you list Militia Cavalry and Cavalry Auxila, which are Javelin Cavalry which just are completely ineffective versus armour (yes in mods like RTR, javelins do do armour piercing damage, but we are talking about vanilla).

I have experimented with Numidian Mercs as Carthage before now (whose stats are similar to Cavalry Auxila I think) and they just are not effective versus heavy armour. As Preston stated, expect around single figure casualties, and that is if you hit them from behind.

I would of course be only too happy if I am wrong, as it makes more options available to deal with cavalry, but I really do not believe this is the case. I would be very happy to play a game with you if you wish to demonstrate the usefulness of javelin cavalry versus heavy cavalry in vanilla to me.