Byz Cavalry

**_Aetius_** · 01-19-2006, 13:02

Clibs and Tanks are ridiculously overpowered so I rarely use them, if they had been that deadly in reality people wouldnt of bothered having infantry.

I have trained only a few units of Clibs as the ERE to see what they were like and they are excellent but I like Sp's to, the problem with Sp's is that even when you charge from the rear you can lose sometimes upto 1/4 of the unit as the riders fly from the horse. Which is incredibly annoying as there is no reason why so many cavalryman should just die for no reason whatsoever.

Clibs tend to just pile through everything and are almost unstoppable, I have though routed units of Clibs by charging them from the rear with the swifter Sp's whilst some cannon fodder have held the enemy cavalry in place.

**Doug-Thompson** · 01-19-2006, 15:55

I checked out thoses cost figures and found that Clibs have a lower maintenance cost than Catas. The slightly higher purchase price for Clibs is quickly offset by maintenance savings. I forgot to write the exact figures down, though.

That pretty much settles things.

Also, just for fun, I charged a unit of Catas into a unit of Clibs a few times in custom battle and went to alt+attack after the charge, just to see what would happen. The Catas were massacred and the Clibs only suffered a couple of casualties each time.

**Watchman** · 01-19-2006, 17:34

Never even bothered testing that one - the superheavy cavalry rely almost exclusively on their sky-high armour rating for survival, and anything that halves it tends to start causing casualties right fast. I had to fight some Merc Sughdians in a rebel stack once, and found that out the hard way.

Far as I can tell the idea is that the Clibs are what you take along against enemies that wield a lot of well-arnoured troops, while the Catas are intented for steamrolling lighter opponents - just about any other cavalry short of other superheavies would probably be among the intented targets, as would many types of line infantry. Kinda overkill probably and likely redunant, but at least it's nice to have the choice and variety. I tend to wield the two types side-by-side on general principles, and because I think the Catas look neater. Both pretty much squash anything they're pitted against anyway so the practical difference isn't that great.