Basic Polish Cavalry is Devastating to most other factions!

Handled well they can do fantastic and amazing things. Almost as much fun as the Kats in RTW. All you need is a foot unit for taking cities.

In my current game, a few turns ago, the Russians decided it was time to attack me, and surprised me with a stack of around 16 spear and archers. All that I had in the castle was 3 shooters a noble and a peasant. There was no help within two or three turns and I saw doom written on the walls…But then I took hope…if the enemy captain was in an archer unit I might have a chance. If I lost then I was just ending the battle a turn or two sooner and would make them pay for attacking me.

Placing the peasants on the gate I charged out to meet the enemy…not directly but I had to run past all those archers. I think I lost one man and was soon behind his lines with my little force.

His deployment allowed me to charge two archer units from behind on his right flank and they were soon routed with minimal losses. I regrouped and did the same on the left flank but one of my guys got tangled up with some spears and routed with only two men left. The other horse had cleared out the rest of his archers and the nobles had at last killed his leader, but the spears seemed to be holding fast.

His weakest unit at this time was a spear on the left flank…(his left flank) that had hacked up my unit of shooters. I brought the two men that were now calm back out to shoot at this group as no one else had arrows left.

I switched them to work on some of the stronger spears and formed up the nobles on the flank and my leaders shooters in the rear. I called back the unit chasseing the routing archers and then attacked the weak spears hoping to start a larger route. The spears were soon wiped out but still no route though they were not being very aggressive.

When the unit on the right came back I had him hit a spear in the flank and attacked the left in the same way …these two unit routed and I chased them and hit another in the flank…this finally did the trick and the last units gave up the ghost… I had whipped a thousand may army with just about two hundred….WOW! Was it a fluke? And then I saw as I was chasseing routing spears that my units were still set to loose formation to avoid arrow fire!….what can I say.

Then similar things happened against the Sicilians, Malian, and Denmark… So it was no fluke. These guys are amazing!