Rebalancing cavalry with working charge bonus?

[Mithradates]

Is it just me but when the bodyguard cavalry charge they look realy cool when they lower their lances then they hit home, however after the impact they just stop and start prodding the enemy to death with the lances are the supposed to use secondary weapons or am I being pedantic. Dont mean to hijack the thread but i can think of a better place to post this.

[Conqueror]

Press down ALT while you order the unit to attack, that way they'll switch to their secondary weapons after the charge is over and the melee begins. AI cavalry never uses it's secondary weapons from what I've seen.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Actually the AI switches when it gets bogged down and surrounded, actually they seem to do it slightly more in 1.2.

Thought: The lance is basically a single use weapon but the shorter cavalry spears used by some units should actually have better attack ratings with lower charge ratings and Cav should all have significantly more powerful secondaries than primaries. If you raise it high enough maybe the AI will twig.

As to Inf V Cav, remember the ancients were rather less secure in their seats, what with no stirrups.

[Steppe Merc]

Stirrups did give cavalry a more secure seat, but were not particullarly vital in any manner of cavalry warfare, be it lances, swords or bows.