I'll talk about one light horse unit that in all honesty and reality sucks for any practical use, but also one that I deep inside wanted to be kick-ass:



I envision for myself the nomadic, lightly armoured horse-archer killers, not only armed with javelins but also a vicious axe and a small buckler allowing them to be surprisingly tough and resilient, and to be something of an "Ekdromoi", but on horse-back. Ekdromoi hoplites were meant to be the bane of peltasts, and this light cavalry unit is meant to be the bane of horse-archers, thanks to a combination of light armament, swift horses and skill with close-quarter weaponry. These Dahae would embodify the fearsome steppen warrior. Disorganized, rude, crude and robbers at heart. Yet brave almost to the border of bravado, and absolutely terrifying. These guys raid villages for breakfast, they butcher entire caravan trains and not even nomadic royal clans nor chieftains bare to stand their presence. Absolutely lovely in all positive sense.

Yet, in-game they suck arse