Grand Cathay cavalry and single entity units

[abdull3593]

I don't if anyone would agree with me, but wouldn't be better for cavalry and single entity monsters would have different affects from the yin/yang battle system since they will be far away from a yin unit. it feels useless since it won't be enabled unless a unit that has a yin mark be nearby it.

[Central]

cavalry and monsters have yang energy, your flyers have yin energy, so if you want to use them away from your front line you can use flyers.

cavalry can also do hammer and anvil charges, as long as your ranged units are not standing to far away from the front line than they should trigger harmony when your cavalry hits the enemy position.

[Uugly]

Terracotta Sentinel can solo most monster and all greater daemon without problem. Jade Cavalry is equal or better to Empire Knight at the same price.

[Basarab Laiota]

you can bring a sky junk with them

[Vexillarius]

The melee buff for Cathay is nice and all but there strength really comes from the yin side. Like the yang buff give melee defence and leadership from memory where as the yin buff give a fire rate boost that lets them put out twice missiles into enemy unit in same amount of time with higher accuracy. I only use yang units as a buffer and a melee screen. Imo cavalry just don't fit into the Cathay strategy which requires maintaining a formation. I would just focus on getting the most out of your missile units instead.

[Who trains thy hands for war?]

It seems like it would be fun to send Ironhail forward alongside Lancers

[ChaosKhan]

Originally posted by Vexillarius:

The melee buff for Cathay is nice and all but there strength really comes from the yin side. Like the yang buff give melee defence and leadership from memory where as the yin buff give a fire rate boost that lets them put out twice missiles into enemy unit in same amount of time with higher accuracy. I only use yang units as a buffer and a melee screen. Imo cavalry just don't fit into the Cathay strategy which requires maintaining a formation. I would just focus on getting the most out of your missile units instead.

Jade Lancers are not "classic cav" for for Cathay either way. They are decent in low numbers, as 1 or 2 "quick response" units or warmachine hunters. That's pretty much the purpose of cav in Cathay, which to be honest, kinda suits their set up.

[Who trains thy hands for war?]

Originally posted by ChaosKhan:

Originally posted by Vexillarius:

The melee buff for Cathay is nice and all but there strength really comes from the yin side. Like the yang buff give melee defence and leadership from memory where as the yin buff give a fire rate boost that lets them put out twice missiles into enemy unit in same amount of time with higher accuracy. I only use yang units as a buffer and a melee screen. Imo cavalry just don't fit into the Cathay strategy which requires maintaining a formation. I would just focus on getting the most out of your missile units instead.

Jade Lancers are not "classic cav" for for Cathay either way. They are decent in low numbers, as 1 or 2 "quick response" units or warmachine hunters. That's pretty much the purpose of cav in Cathay, which to be honest, kinda suits their set up.

I use 6 in my armies on Very Hard

[ChaosKhan]

Originally posted by Who trains thy hands for war?:

I use 6 in my armies on Very Hard

I think it's cool to play whatever you want without much regard for the meta.

[Who trains thy hands for war?]

Originally posted by ChaosKhan:

Originally posted by Who trains thy hands for war?:

I use 6 in my armies on Very Hard

I think it's cool to play whatever you want without much regard for the meta.

Cathay with cavalry is the meta. Need them against Khorne and against the SEM that people complain about. Much easier smash of early armies, e.g. vs Lokhir

[Who trains thy hands for war?]

Originally posted by Vexillarius:

The melee buff for Cathay is nice and all but there strength really comes from the yin side. Like the yang buff give melee defence and leadership from memory where as the yin buff give a fire rate boost that lets them put out twice missiles into enemy unit in same amount of time with higher accuracy. I only use yang units as a buffer and a melee screen. Imo cavalry just don't fit into the Cathay strategy which requires maintaining a formation. I would just focus on getting the most out of your missile units instead.

Cavalry maintain that formation. Cathay is a combined arms army. The same line that holds the enemy for the ranged, is the anvil that holds the enemy for the hammer

Because close coordination is important, under no circumstances should the enemy be allowed to disrupt this. Cavalry allow for rapid redeployment (e.g. vs tunneling Skaven) and blocking of major breakthroughs (any SEM legendary lord, monster, super chariot, etc)

[Who trains thy hands for war?]

Having come from Empire trying to fight Wood Elves, and having some historical knowledge of the background of the Cathay roster, I'm comfortable with having plentiful cavalry in my combined arms human armies.

Traditionally Cathay like armies suffered when they lacked cavalry, and at their best made excellent use of cavalry