Quote Originally Posted by jhhowell View Post
AFAIK, the RTW engine only allows units to have two weapons. Curepos and similar (and in this sense, cataphract HA are "similar") have their missile weapon as primary and lance as secondary. No doubt if three weapons were possible they'd have a sword or something too. This is the only advantage cataphracts have over cata-HA - the latter have no maces for melee.
Well, I'm wondering more why they have a lance, rather than a spear. Spears being the more versatile weapon for the unit forced to use one, rather than two.