Real life picture of RTW Cataphracts!!!

[Watchman]

Later on "cataphract" could also mean simply an armoured cavalryman, not necessarily on a barded horse. "Clibanarius" got equally vague pretty fast by what I know of it, although it usually signified heavier equipement.

Anyway, the problem with the vanilla RTW catas was that they were from something like very late Parthian or early Sassanid times, ie. nearly half a millenia out of date for RTW...

I'd peg the gear in the first pic of the OP to be essentially Migration Period or thereabouts chronology-wise; weren't helmets of that design popular around that time ?

[atheotes]

katatanks from RTW What a nightmare!!!

[Imperator]

So what exactly is the point of this thread? To suggest RTW was secretly really accurate? I think not. Even if the cataphracts DID look like that (which I doubt, since that picture looks pretty fishy to me) we can agree they weren't bright purple and were NOT ancient Rohirrim.

[Pharnakes]

Were the cataphracts in vannila overpowered or something?

[Watchman]

I remember wiping out the two or so Parthia starts with by luring them into the pikes of those cruddy levy phalangites and then just repeatedly charging their derrieres with FamiCav (the early-campaign light model too), so not really. The bow-and-mace BI Clibas were way nastier.

[mAIOR]

I agree those guys were my eastern nightmare. I could take hords easilly (AS
really I don't know why they sent 8 stacks to my ambush in a row). RTW were strong but you could get rid of them easilly (I prefered Urban cohorts with cretan archers armies)... But, in the hands of a skilled player they were deadly!


Cheers...

[Krusader]

I've seen the RTW vanilla cataphract of a illustration done on Late Roman cataphracts in some triumph.

Ahh here it was:

[NeoSpartan]

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Anyway, the problem with the vanilla RTW catas was that they were from something like very late Parthian or early Sassanid times, ie. nearly half a millenia out of date for RTW...
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Now that explains it....

[Beefy187]

i remember i used to have like 2 stacks of pure cataphract army as seleucids

smashed soo many Scipii armies in Africa

[russia almighty]

Wolf your link leads directly to the main website , not the actual page.

[Wolfman]

strange. It was working before. I'll see what I can do.

Edit: Try it now. The address changed thats why the link wasn't working