Cav balance

[Genava]

I quoted Plutarch for those which forgot this passage. Then, I think that the Parthian cataphracts were less good in close combat than a usual cavalry. I say that because the ambushes carried out by Cassius in front of Antioch, the battle of Taurus, the battle of Trapezôn and the battle of Gindaros show well that the cataphracts cannot fight the infantry without to have charged it at full speed.

Contrary to the Parthians, the Celtic cavalry pushed back them twice. Once in front of Phraaspa and another time during the retirement of Marc-Antoine. The Celtic cavalry is definitely more mobile and when the cataphracts are attacked by the sides by the Celts, they flee. The fight which takes place during the retirement of Marc-Antoine illustrates this characteristic well. The mounted archers and the cataphracts are stopped by the light infantry and the Celtic cavalry will take them out of clipper. The fight lasts only a few minutes before Parthians flee.

The cataphracts are terribly effective only in plain and when they can charge the enemy. The only problem in EB1, it is that the cataphracts are too resistant in the clause combat cause of their armours.