Quote Originally Posted by Quirinus
By the way, while still on the subject of the Greek Cities, do you use militia cavalry? I always have at least one unit on a medium- to large-sized army-- it helps a lot to be able to chase routers with them and conserve the breath of the general's bodyguard.

Plus, they are very fast, meaning they kill routers so much more efficiently than regular cavalry. I usually start the battle with fire-at-will turned off. In some battles I don't use the javelins, or, indeed, the militia cavalry themselves in actual combat, but use them to wipe out routers. I find them especially effective in assassinating routing generals.

As missile cavalry, though, they suck spectacularly. Low range, ammo that soon runs out, and not significantly more effective than horse archers in men killed per volley.
In vanilla I did,but it was largely confined to the Greeks,Romans,and rarely the Seleucids.
As the Greeks,I'd use the light Greek Cavalry in a "heavy" manner,and Militia Cavalry to act as light cavalry to chase down skirmishers,exactly as you,but never in missile cavalry situations. I never use foot skirmishers,so why would mounted skirmishers be of any use to me? But this pretty much ended after I found out how to make Macedonian (heavy) Cavalry available as a recruitable Greek unit. Seleucid use of it was fairly rare,as I had Companions,Cataphracts,and elephants at my disposal.
As the Romans,I would use their Cavalry Auxilia in place of better light cavalry in Post-Marian armies. But that,too,ended when I removed the "and not marian_reforms" stipulation from Equites in the export_descr_buildings file.