Is charge bonus what defines a shock troop? What is "mass", exactly?

[MythTrip]

Seems that charge bonus is really what defines a shock troop, ie a troop with a superb offensive ability, one that can rush the enemy and produce a lot of casualties. is this right? Also, I have seen the term "mass" used for cavalty sharges, can anyone explain exactly?

[Princey]

I believe it to do the with the charge bonus as well. I would like to know. I think they are like more fragile heavy troops but they do good charge damage and inflict good damage and a quick morale debuff but are not so good in extended combat as heavy troops are.

[la_nague]

you have 2 different things here, charge bonus is a bonus that is applied to attacks after a charge, it adds its number to attack and damage right after the charge and then slowly adds less and less until after 30 secs it goes to 0 bonus.

mass is the impact of the charge itself, it makes people fly around and deal damage based on basically the mass difference between charger and chargee.


this channel has a lot of mechanics explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoxMp53qubo


also please note the exact numbers and balance depends on the game and the DLC, for excample age of charlemagne is balanced differently.

[MythTrip]

Excellent video, but it still doesnt define mass, exactly. Says that one cav has more mass than another, but not why, or where its listed in stats.

[la_nague]

its in the unit class....like very heavy melee cavalry or medium infantry.