Apache cavalry

**Denali** · 09-16-2007, 10:26

Do they exist at all? I played for a while now and i still have to chase down my enemies with all those slow infantrymen. Means I pretty much spend 15 minutes fighting with masses of infantry against other masses of infantry, basically just charge straight in and i can't kill the routing units. So they re-form and I have to fight the same men over and over again.

Id give my captial city for a single unit of light cav... lol

any ideas how or when i can recurit cav with the apaches?

**icek** · 09-16-2007, 10:34

go into strategy forum section and search for apachean strategy for unlocking requirements

**Per Ole** · 09-16-2007, 11:01

You have to defeat armies with cavalry in them a certain number of times. After that, you get a message that you can now build them. Same goes for gunpowder. When you get them both, and have killed a lot with them, you get the "mounted thunder braves", basically a VERY good unit on horses with muskets.

Hope that helped :)

**The Outsider** · 09-16-2007, 11:31

They sure look pretty good it will be fun to play with them.

**Denali** · 09-16-2007, 16:32

Originally Posted by Per Ole

You have to defeat armies with cavalry in them a certain number of times. After that, you get a message that you can now build them. Same goes for gunpowder. When you get them both, and have killed a lot with them, you get the "mounted thunder braves", basically a VERY good unit on horses with muskets.

Hope that helped :)

yep that helped, thanks mate.

**PrestigeX** · 09-16-2007, 18:10

Horses aren't indigenous to North America, so maybe you have to like, capture a spanish city, fortress or something like that.

**Cadwallon** · 09-17-2007, 02:14

As someone said, you have to beat either the Spanish, French or English a few times - the more times you do, the more cavalry you can build - also muskets.

**joe4iz** · 09-17-2007, 13:02

It is not as hard to get the necessary victories as it would seem. You need ten victories over gunpowder and or horse units.

To get that, I engaged the French after they came into the picture. I sent three stacks against one. Turn one: attack the stack with overwhelming odds. Win the battle. Catch and release all prisoners. Same turn. Hit the decimated stack with the furthest stack I had. Catch and release again. Same turn. Hit them with the next furthest stack. Catch and release.

By the time I destroyed the stack, I had 8 victories. The next two came fairly quickly after that.

I might add I did not attack into Central American until I had gunpowder units. Too many multiple stack armies of Aztec, Chici, etc to do anything but a defensive war prior to that .

After taking their city in Florida, they popped out and went on the move. I was able to finally hunt them down and destroy them. They did reappear later with another army.

Do other European factions do that? Such as Spain or England?

**icek** · 09-17-2007, 13:54

well, spanish have their king in havana from the start. french land with family member. I mean by that that you can destroy spanish completly because you have all family members on the map. But french are weaker than spanish, their general is 2hp infantry unit not 3 like spanish.

**Per Ole** · 09-17-2007, 14:42

As a native, it's impossible to destroy the spanish becouse their capital is at an island and you can't build boats. You can annihalate the French and English, but they appear later with new armies (you can annihalate them again)

**Slaists** · 09-17-2007, 14:47

Originally Posted by icek

well, spanish have their king in havana from the start. french land with family member. I mean by that that you can destroy spanish completly because you have all family members on the map. But french are weaker than spanish, their general is 2hp infantry unit not 3 like spanish.

the fella in Havana is not a king, but rather a governor... :) the king is where he is supposed to be: in the dark map area due East unreachable during the new world campaign.