best fighting horse units?

**seienchin** · 11-11-2009, 16:31

Originally Posted by Andronikos

You can get Brihentin (Gallic heavy cavalry) in regional barracks as Rome in some cities in Gaul. Despite they are not so heavy as Iberians or eastern cavalry, they have nice lance attack and celtic longsword with 0.225 lethality as secondary weapon so they can survive and win in melee. They are the best melee cavalry aviable in the west (or maybe not it is difficult to say if double lethality is better than armour piercing).

LISTEN TO THIS GUY. In the marian time the brihentin and the auxillary gaul cavallery has the highest charge bonus.
Earlier you have the equites extraordinarii.
Dont listen to anything else, because romans do not have anything else. But thats because they never used massive cavallery charges.

For pure melee skills:
Use the germanic auxillary cavallery or the imperial cavallery wing (Augustan time). The thrakian auxillary are also quite good, but you cant recruit them in too many places.

**athanaric** · 11-11-2009, 18:22

Originally Posted by seienchin

LISTEN TO THIS GUY. In the marian time the brihentin and the auxillary gaul cavallery has the highest charge bonus.
Earlier you have the equites extraordinarii.
Dont listen to anything else, because romans do not have anything else. But thats because they never used massive cavallery charges.

Listen to your Rechtschreibung first.

Brihentin are NOT the best mêlée cavalry in the West - they are just the best cavalry auxiliaries available to ROME in the West. Celts and Germans get better versions of Brihentin, namely the Remi cavalry and its Germanic counterpart.

For pure melee skills:
Use the germanic auxillary cavallery or the imperial cavallery wing (Augustan time). The thrakian auxillary are also quite good, but you cant recruit them in too many places.

Don't forget Illyrians - they die easily from missiles (armour 4+2) but are fast chargers and have a nice AP axe to boot. An interesting option for catching enemy FMs, as well as a great general purpose unit.

**Olaf The Great** · 11-12-2009, 03:38

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...ight=SUPERCATS

**antisocialmunky** · 11-12-2009, 06:00

I should dig up that replay of my Baktrian FMs holding off 300 horses and 10 elephants lol.

**WinsingtonIII** · 11-13-2009, 17:28

Originally Posted by athanaric

Brihentin are NOT the best mêlée cavalry in the West - they are just the best cavalry auxiliaries available to ROME in the West. Celts and Germans get better versions of Brihentin, namely the Remi cavalry and its Germanic counterpart.

That's true, but if read the original post again, the OP was asking about Rome, so all of the information everyone gave about cataphracts and other cavalry not recruitable by Rome was absolutely useless to him.