Quote Originally Posted by Quillan
The roman generals can beat any other cav unit out there easily with their secondary weapon. My first game I had a hell of a time with the Sassanid clibanarii, they seemed almost impossible to kill. Then I read in the Frogbeastegg ERE guide thread the suggestion to use their secondary attack, and when I got back into the game, I used it. They mow the clibs down down. Against Sassanid generals, it takes a bit longer because everybody has 2 hitpoints, but the romans still come out on top. Too big a difference in command stars will still skew things.
Well its not really fair to compare Roman generals with ordinary Sassanid clibs.
Sassanid generals have better armor - 20,10,0 vs 12,10,4 and all Sassanid clibs have long range attack - archery.