Quote Originally Posted by jerby
too me it worked fine.
the "tests"of this person is not the same: comparing the kills of preatorian on Silver Shield with the charge of Companions on urban cohorts. thats not the same. and the angle of charge can be different.
I myzlef thought companions were inferior to cataphracts. so i did some modding on the charge bonus, and there was a difference.
Even so it's still wrong. Cataphracts advanced at an ambling pace, while companions charged in at full throttle. Companions had much more impact as a result.

Best use of Parthian forces ever was Carrhae. What did the cataphracts do? Threaten to charge into the cohorts, who bunched together to recieve the charge, but then wheel off just before impact and have the horse archers bring down a barrage on the legionaries.

The only real melee they got into was against Gallic cavalry, which attacked them, and the heavy armor of the cataphracts was enough to quickly decide the skirmish in the favor of the cataphracts.

When were cataphracts used wrongly? Tarsus, 43 BC. Plenty of horse archers present, but they were kept at bay by massed slingers. What did Pacorus, the Parthian commander, do? He charged the cohorts with his cataphracts. What happened? Almost immediately the charge was stopped and the cataphracts killed, a simple reverse repeat of Tigranocerta.

Cataphract power of impact is massively overrated in history.



~Wiz