Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
AP primary lances totally lose out to AP secondaries in my experience. And non-AP secondaries as well particularly if the opposition is of the annoying "two points of armour and high defense skill" type. And of course non-AP primaries - overhand spears mostly - sorta don't measure up to AP secondaries in most melee instances.

Sure, the Sahigan Pahrs' kontos may have a whopping 0.4 lethality and AP, but it also has like 200 attack delay and base attack value of 4. Their secondary non-AP sword has base attack in two digits (10 or 11 IIRC), no delay and 0.225 lethality - which one would you use when swarmed with axe-toting Daha skirmishers ?

The AI, not knowing how to use secondaries, of course opts for the first. Which in my experience specifically makes the Daha and Arachosians such an effective panacea to cataphracts...

Similarly most of the other cavalry heavies have either an AP secondary with two-digit attack values, or a non-AP one with usually even higher attack and not rarely a good lethality too. The lances have such sodding poor base attack values that even halving the enemy's armour usually leaves the secondaries better off in the attacker/defense number comparision...


This is a more detailed explaination.