Cavalry to infantry ratio

[nolram00]

Is it possible to get 100% of Cavalry to infantry ratio?

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

As in a pure cav army with no penalty? Horde tech group.
No-one else gets to have pure cav armies without some penalty, though Poland might be able to overcome the penalty.

[nolram00]

yeahr i tested it, you can have with manchuria have a whole cav army without the penalty.

[Crim]

Originally posted by Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia:

As in a pure cav army with no penalty? Horde tech group.
No-one else gets to have pure cav armies without some penalty, though Poland might be able to overcome the penalty.

Unlikely
The penalty is -25% Tactics
Read that as being -25% Discipline to realize how big of a penalty that is.

[luckymarine]

Originally posted by Talamare:

Originally posted by Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia:

As in a pure cav army with no penalty? Horde tech group.
No-one else gets to have pure cav armies without some penalty, though Poland might be able to overcome the penalty.

Unlikely
The penalty is -25% Tactics
Read that as being -25% Discipline to realize how big of a penalty that is.

You need more hours in the game before you start pulling people up on information like this.

Hordes with tengri faith can have 100% cav front rows with no penalty, it's what makes a money making horde so strong especially if they can take advantage of banners.

[Crim]

Originally posted by luckymarine:

Originally posted by Talamare:

Unlikely
The penalty is -25% Tactics
Read that as being -25% Discipline to realize how big of a penalty that is.

You need more hours in the game before you start pulling people up on information like this.

Hordes with tengri faith can have 100% cav front rows with no penalty, it's what makes a money making horde so strong especially if they can take advantage of banners.

Sure, I meant more like... Poland trying to go 100% Horse
You would essentially lose all your advantages if you tried...

Then again, Poland gets offensive advantages while the penalty is a defensive one.
So you would become like a Rogue type, high offense with no defense.

[2Pac Alive in Serbia]

Poland has Eastern tech group, which is, if I recall, 60% cav-infantry ratio allowed,
Winged Hussars idea adds another +10%
If they get a loyal Cossacks estate that would be another +10%
And Sunni grants you an extra +10%
That's as much as Poland could get in an average game, 90%.
The Age of Discovery Cavalry Armies ability grants +20%, but it's unlikely for Poland to get 2/3 of the other buffs by then.

[tonypa]

Instead of trying to get more Cavalry into your armies, you should raise Cavalry Combat Ability as Poland:

+33% Polish idea 4: Winged Hussars
+20% Aristocratic-Espionage: Noble Loyalty Act
+10% Aristocratic idea 1: Noble Knights
+10% Quality idea 3: Finest of Horses

Just make 50% inf + 50% cavalry (and artillery for second row) armies and you will wipe everything. Specially if you use only mercs for Infantry, you basically lose no manpower during the battles.