Roman counter cav in MP

[Rodion Romanovich]

If you have any replays that demonstrate their effective use, I would be grateful if you posted them.

How do I post the replays? BTW I don't think I've saved more than one or two replays of it, so I might have to play a new battle with it to prove it's effectiveness. Anyway, there are hundreds of factors that need to be counted in before jav cavs can be used effectively. I learnt to use jav cavs by being defeated in mp by one who used them to kill my cataphracts. Anyway, I've found that they're the little thing that can turn a 5 vs 5 or 6 vs 6 cavalry fight into something more than just a matter of luck and who makes mistakes with timing and keeping of reserves etc. And as I said the light cavs can hunt the routing enemy cavs and make sure they don't come back to the field. If you rout an enemy cav unit when it has say 20 men left of the original 54, then hunting it and killing say 5 of them can be the difference that makes them not coming back again.

[NihilisticCow]

To post a replay, upload the file somewhere say here or here and post the link.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Damn, the only replay I had was this one: http://www.totalwar.org/Downloads/Rt...y/SelVsCar.zip

It's not very good, I had some better battles which I however didn't save... Anyway, even though the opponent makes some mistakes I still believe you can get at least some idea of how I use javelin cavs to great effect. My opponent wasn't the only one to make mistakes in that replay though... Don't mention how careless I was about my general or how I nearly got one of my militia cavs killed at the map edge (the trick is to manage them manually with skirmish off because the skirmish mode almost never works for any unit - and I left them on their own for a while - luckily enough only one or two died). The militia cavs were actually among the 10 units that scored most kills in the battle - but that's not the most important thing they did. The most important thing was their impact on morale, as well as luring the enemy to make moves favorable for me. And their speed - they could always quickly get to the site of action and provide that little extra strength that resulted in a quick enemy rout.