New unit at the .COM - Trebizond Archer

[Lochar]

I dont see the trezibond. Although I have seen that page many times before.

Click the 3d unit highlight and retreat or advance to see it.

I am curious if they will actually use that small shield when applied as a melee unit when their arrows are out.

[kataphraktoi]

Medieval Total Realism intends to start MTW2 in the year 1066, at this stage, Byzantium's cream of the crop Tagmatic troops hadn't been wasted at Manzikert and the civil wars afterward.

So Kataphraktoi will still be important but restricted more to the Tagmatic Schools and the provincial Tagmatic retainers of the frontier Ducates. They would mainly be lancers, but would also carry bows and quivers (albeit in small numbers as the lancer-archer cavalrymen is a rarity in the 11th cent. and not representative of Kaballarika Themata troops).

Byzantine heavy cavalry sometimes carried lead weighted javelins called Marzobarboulon into battle. This will make for interesting modding in the future.