Best cavalry?

[Slug For A Butt]

I see your point about Equites being easily available, that's fair.
I'm still not too convinced about the Pontics though. I guess like you said, it comes down to individual tactics.

[SOSamurai]

My last scipii campaign has made me loath Elephants. Playing the campaign on huge Unit size, I was seiging carthage with my core army (pretty much all hastati, since it was very early game) and managed to get all my troops inside the walls just to see 1300 hastati get butchered by an elephant unit. entertaining to watch though, but it ruined my campaign. ;)

[Viking]

Cataphract archers. They should beat just about every other cavalry unit in the game, including Armoured elephants.

Edit: Maybe not Armoured elephants; so maybe the armoured elephants are the best; I haven`t performed tests on this.

[x-dANGEr]

The best melee cav unit is the 'Camel Cataphracti', simply because their attack is AP and they have the best armor. That is not considering the strategic conditions on the strategy map. Also, they have the 'scare other horses' attribute which gives them another bonus vs the tank killers unit which is 'Head Hunting Madians'. One of their downsides though is the low fatigue and speed.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

I don't think the camel cavalry is that good. I would stick to Cibinari, but that may be a bit expensive, so I dont know...

[Barbarossa1221]

I love sythian nobles personally, strong melee attack and they got a bow.
But on that note the Cataphract archers definetly take the cake.
And the best cavalry thats not a HA is probably the Cataphracts despite its small size.

[Glaucus]

Campanion Cavalry are pretty tight.

Their charge bonus is considerable, more then cataphracts if memory serves me right. I like them the best, since together with selucid/macedonian phalanxes, and hammer-anvil tactics, their the hammer that wins any battle.