Calling ALL CAVALRY COMMANDERS !

[HoreTore]

Cavalry cannot be used in sieges effectively.

That's a very common misconception, and fortunately, entirely false. Cavalry are extremely good in a siege, but you do need a spy. Their strength lies completely in their speed in a siege, not their charge power. First, you can attack all four gates almost simultaneously, allowing you to kill a large number of isolated units. Second, you can strike rapidly at the city center, which will cause the enemy to retreat from their walls, allowing you to kill them very easily as they will try to get to the center and wont stop to fight you, and so will die as they try to run through you. Having an infantry force attacking the main gate is very good, as they will be better at fighting the huge number of enemies in the streets there.

Having a full stack of 15 cav and 5 infantry is a very good army to siege with. Split the cav into 3, and send them to the left, right and back gates. The infantry will attack the main gate.

@Sinan: not really any favourite... But I guess if I had to choose one, I'd choose Famiglia Ducale. BTW, I'm not really a cavalry nut, except the russians and the turkish early period, I only use about 30% cavalry. I'm panicking if my army doesn't have a strong infantry core..