Well Ive played the demo a few times and, at first, the cavalry struck me as being completely underpowered.

I shuddered at all those knights, supposedly the finest warriors of the era, getting decimated in both battles.

(Everything else seemed tentitively OK, after tweaking with the game a bit. I took those horrible green things off, and the banners, and that bloom glow effect, and it looks great!)

After some more in depth playing, I noticed that knights only fell in droves on those frontal charges they are scripted to perform. In Pavia I gave AI complete control of my men and it had an almost untouched unit of Zwie... (big sword people) marching through the woods and it was attacked from behind by some Gendahorses and completely beaten.

Also I have noticed that if a unit is already ingaged and the knights charge in frontally after another unit, they also dont have that mass death effect.

I am looking mostly at the mp aspect of the game, and I dont know what to make of the cav.

It could be seen as good as in RTW cav could charge head on and have no real penalties. However, it still makes me shudder to see 70% of the "finest warriors in medieval europe" die charging men with hammers and the rest flee immediatly.

What do you guys, especially the mp vets, think of the cavalry as its presented in the demo?