Quote Originally Posted by Doug-Thompson
There are only four types of pure melee cavalry that are fast, according to R'as al Ghul's unit stats. All have good stamina. These are:

Alan Light Cavalry (Mercenary)
Albanian Cavalry (Mercenary)
Border Horse (Scotland)
Stradiots (Venice)
Going a little off-topic, but that's a rather short list. It puts a premium on horse archers, if they are also better at the pursuit role than pure melee cavalry.

Going a little back to topic: to confirm - hobilars and mounted sergeants are only worth taking over knights if you are short of cash? (=almost never, in my SP games). I'm not sure that's a big problem for role-playing the English though, as they probably only used light cavalry for budget reasons.

Incidentally, are there "slow" cavalry in M2TW - like the MTW Gothics and kataphracts? I'm guessing not, but that might be more of a role-playing issue. AFAIK, part of the reason demi-lancers etc were less well armoured was so they would be faster.