It's literally just Cav only isn't it?

[Ryan]

By which I mean, all you really need is a big force of knights on cav, no strategy required, to steamroll every enemy in this game.

[Azunai]

Tried it before. Works well vs weak opponents like bandits and pretty good for hunting caravans when you sign up as a mercenary since an all cav army can actually catch them.

They don't fare that well against proper armies with a good mix of combined arms. Infantry can screw them badly if they get stuck after the initial charge. You often lose quite a few of your elite troops in fights you could win with 0 losses with a more balanced army.

Also hill maps screw them badly when the AI just takes up a position on a hill and the horses can't charge.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by Azunai:

Tried it before. Works well vs weak opponents like bandits and pretty good for hunting caravans when you sign up as a mercenary since an all cav army can actually catch them.

They don't fare that well against proper armies with a good mix of combined arms. Infantry can screw them badly if they get stuck after the initial charge. You often lose quite a few of your elite troops in fights you could win with 0 losses with a more balanced army.

Also hill maps screw them badly when the AI just takes up a position on a hill and the horses can't charge.

I counter this by having my cav follow me and charging directly through the enemy, looping around to go back in. I've never really encountered much hilly battlefields either fwiw

[Urmel]

try this strategy against sturgia faction, or when he go on a hill and wait for you.

[kristianjakob]

Originally posted by Ryn:

By which I mean, all you really need is a big force of knights on cav, no strategy required, to steamroll every enemy in this game.

Absolutely!

Or all archers!

Or all infantry!

Or..even some combination of stuff might work

[Karna5]

I used to like melee cavalry, especially back when I used to use F1+F3.

But the last several play throughs when I switched to using F1+F4 I prefer groups of mounted archers. They hang back out of range and shoot and can usually handle several times their number with minimal casualties.

Melee troops, even heavily armored knights, still can't handle 4 or 5 times their number without major losses, but groups of archers staying out of attack range circling the map in safety may kill more slowly, but they kill better.

While the enemy is trying to catch up to the mounted archers I gallop in their midst walloping them with either a two handed axe or a slashing pole arm while they're distracted and not paying attention to me.

I still like having melee knights on horseback, but they're not enough on their own against vastly superior numbers.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by Urmel:

try this strategy against sturgia faction, or when he go on a hill and wait for you.

F5 dismount, easy

[Ibarruri]

I never use cavalry is trash
i defeat all cavalry easy with my spanish tercio tactics.

[Urmel]

Originally posted by Ryn:

Originally posted by Urmel:

try this strategy against sturgia faction, or when he go on a hill and wait for you.

F5 dismount, easy

then why you write cavalry, when all you need is infantry ?

and like some other sayd... you can use every unit and win.

[Erik.]

Originally posted by Ryn:

By which I mean, all you really need is a big force of knights on cav, no strategy required, to steamroll every enemy in this game.

cav only against Aserai is one of the heaviest losses you can imagine LITTERLY almost every damn Aserai has a damn spear. it'S a pure slaughter

[Karna5]

Originally posted by Blood-C:

cav only against Aserai is one of the heaviest losses you can imagine LITTERLY almost every damn Aserai has a damn spear. it'S a pure slaughter

Those same aserai would be sitting ducks against archer cavalry. They'd never catch up to them and would have no defense against the arrows.

[Erik.]

Originally posted by Karna5:

Originally posted by Blood-C:

cav only against Aserai is one of the heaviest losses you can imagine LITTERLY almost every damn Aserai has a damn spear. it'S a pure slaughter

Those same aserai would be sitting ducks against archer cavalry. They'd never catch up to them and would have no defense against the arrows.

well okay i was rather talking about the Melee Cav.

[Ryan]

Originally posted by Ibarruri:

I never use cavalry is trash
i defeat all cavalry easy with my spanish tercio tactics.

Tried this, barely works unfortunately. And I'm a big ECW (English civil war) fan

[FourGreenFields]

Originally posted by Ryn:

Originally posted by Ibarruri:

I never use cavalry is trash
i defeat all cavalry easy with my spanish tercio tactics.

Tried this, barely works unfortunately. And I'm a big ECW (English civil war) fan

You... aren't defeating melee-cavalry with (melee-)infantry?

How? I'm telling my skirmishers to hold fire and they still slaughter vlandian cavalry just fine. They don't even have any damn spears.

You are using tight formations, right? Shieldwall, for example, not sure if any others are just as tight.

[BIG E.]

Its strong because only real counter to cavalry currently is two handed weapons with powerful swings.

Stab only spears are reaally ♥♥♥♥. You need swinging polarms/two-handed weapons.

Cavalry is going to be extremely strong until devs decide to actually buff spear base stab speed and damage.

[BLACKcOPstRIPPa]

My first playthrough, mainly used infantry, melee and ranged mixture.

Only after 20 hours starting mixing in small amounts of calv that I lead while foot troops are running across map, it can help.

Like soften and make them disorganized and when main army arrives I dismount and join the fray