Best cavalry?

**kburkert** · 04-08-2006, 13:29

what faction(in RTW not Bi) do you think has the best cavalry?

I think the Scythians have good cavalry units, but the britons have the easly broken/destroyed

chariots and no other cavalry.

**Drusus Magnus** · 04-08-2006, 21:07

Cataphracts can withstand all ammo a persian cav unit has to offer when it's shot to their fronts. After that they can easily mop them up.

Armoured elephants are considered cavalry as well, but I don't think that's what you're looking for.

**Diurpaneus** · 04-08-2006, 21:10

Without doubt a well trained cappadocian cavalry is deadly.

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 04-08-2006, 22:14

Some heavy Thessalian cavalry perhaps?

**Severous** · 04-09-2006, 00:54

Hi

Ive only played two Roman campaigns that didnt go on for very long. Equites are a powerful force early in the game.

Toughest cavalry ive encountered was the Pontus faction leader. Pontic heavy cavalry bodyguard sufferred few casualties from archers and had a powerful missile and mellee attack.

**Slug For A Butt** · 04-09-2006, 02:36

Just my twopenneth.
I've got to disagree with you this time Severous. I find Equites to be an utter waste of the air they breathe. They lack the same punch to charge infantry that they do to chase routers, the enemy is off the map before I can kill many of them.
And I find Pontic heavies or the Pontic Generals are easily despatched.
For me it's the cats or any purely melee General units. I only use cav to charge or chase so they are my favourites.
Obviously it depends what role you want cav to play, but if it's archery I stick with foot archers.

**kburkert** · 04-09-2006, 07:48

Originally Posted by Severous

Hi

Ive only played two Roman campaigns that didnt go on for very long. Equites are a powerful force early in the game.

I find they are only good at attacking the back of the unit.

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 04-14-2006, 15:51

Originally Posted by Alexanderofmacedon

Some heavy Thessalian cavalry perhaps?

Wait, you're playing RTW, I'm sorry. I play the RTR mod, so I was going from there. Okay, well in my opinion the best cavalry in RTW, is either some of the cataphract cavalry, or sacred band cavalry from Carthage.