Stopping cavalry charges

**Seabourch** · 06-20-2007, 04:23

I know your spear units are supposed to be stationary but I still take losses from the cavalry when they charge. So how do u stop them without losing an insane amount of men?

**andrewt** · 06-20-2007, 05:09

Skrimishing archers are the best at stopping my formed charges.

**Zarky** · 06-20-2007, 07:36

Spearwall, and skirmish archers.

**Furious Mental** · 06-20-2007, 08:55

Stakes if you have a unit that can lay them,

**Guru** · 06-20-2007, 09:24

Originally Posted by Furious Mental

Stakes if you have a unit that can lay them,

...Which basically means any English longbowmen, Lithuanian archers and Janissary archers. So, the English, Polish and the Turks get this advantage. If none of these are available I would use a solid spear unit like saracen militia, spearmen or armored sarges. If none of these are available I'd use my own heavy cavalry to intercept them. Well, spear militias are cheap and easy to train too. Or sacrifice a unit of peasants in front of your lines... Bwuahahahah!

- Guru

**Zarky** · 06-20-2007, 09:31

Take up peasant units just to sacrifice them and lose slots for DFKs and such...
Just use the expensive and solid spears with some general close :D

**crpcarrot** · 06-20-2007, 09:19

spearmen (not militia) in deep formataion at least 6 men deep set on hold formation and not moving and facing the cavalry charge head on. cavalry will just die even mongol bodyguards.

note: with mongol BG make sure u have a high star general nearby or your men will rout. this has nothing to do with the charge however rather its the effect of the Mongols high dread.