This is just a quick suggestion. One of the annoyances I have in RTW and it's mods is dealing with skirmishers. This is exasperrated in EB because of how weak calvary is in melee, and because rebels tend to be mostly skirmishers, especially in the east. I'm not saying calvary is necessarily underpowered since normally a calvary charge to the rear of any unit already in combat is almost sure to cause a rout, but most calvary even the heaviest is worthless at hunting skirmishers, even charging and counter charging.

This said, I have found that to kill most foot skirmishers I have to use infantry. But since the infantry can't catch them, I have to use calvary to occupy them until the infantry can catch up, frequently costing my calvary 30-50% casualties (even medium/heavy calvary like Baktrion Hippeis). Pantodapoi I've found effective as stand alone skirmisher killers becuase of their "fast moving" trait, which allows them to catch any skirmishers without that trait, like those damned persian archer/spearmen. It'd be nice to see more light infantry units with this trait, since I hate using Pantodapoi in my field armies. For example, I think Tabargane Eranshahr (Eastern Axemen) should get this and probably a few others.

On a side note/question, I was under the impression that while Cataphracts where good at rolling up lines with a charge, I thought they were also supposed to be able to hang in melee well? I mean certainly the stirrup hadn't been invented yet, but they sure seem to drop like flies when engaging in melee. In my baktria campaign, I was excited when my early bodyguards got upgraded to Hetairoi Kataphraktoi but I found they couldn't hang in melee any better than the others, even against worthless slingers and archers armed with knives. I'm playing on medium diff battles on huge unit scale. Anyone get the same impression as me? Hope this doesn't come across the wrong way, as always I greatly appreciate the EB teams excellent work. Thanks. Well this post has turned out a lot longer than I thought, sorry .