Total War: ATTILA

Total War: ATTILA

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Cantabrian Circle for all Horse Archers
   
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Aug 29, 2017 @ 11:26am
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Cantabrian Circle for all Horse Archers

Description
This mod will bring you Cantabrian Circle ability for all Horse Archers units in the game as:

Originally posted by wikipedia:

The Cantabrian circle (Latin: circulus cantabricus) was a military tactic employed by ancient and to a lesser extent medieval horse archers. As Flavius Arrianus[1] and Hadrian[2] relate, this was the most habitual form to appear in combat of the Cantabri tribes, and Rome adopted it after the Cantabrian Wars.

The tactic was usually employed against infantry and bowmen. The constant movement of the horsemen gave them an advantage against the less mobile infantry and made them harder to target by the enemy's missile troops. The maneuver was designed to harass and taunt the enemy forces, disrupt close formations and often draw part, or all, of the enemy forces into a disorganized or premature charge. This was commonly used against enemy infantry, especially heavily armed and armored slow moving forces such as the legions of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.

The advantages of the Cantabrian circle is that the mounted archers do not have to make a perfect circle, allowing them to keep their distance from the enemy. The slower moving infantry have little to no hope of catching the mounted archers, putting them at a distinct disadvantage.

The Cantabrian circle is similar to other cavalry maneuvers such as the caracole and the Parthian shot.

  • Huns & White Huns
    - Avar Horde
    - Hunnic Ambushers
    - Hunnic Devil Archers
    - Hunnic Horse Archers
    - Hunnic Warlord
    - Noble Horse Archers
    - Steppe Horse Archers
    - Steppe Mounted Bows
    - Unnigarde
    - Spet Xyon Archers


  • Alans
    - Alani Horse Archers
    - Alani Mounted Bows
    - Grey Hair
    - Cataphract Archers


  • Aksum
    - Mounted März Archers

  • Eastern Roman Empire
    - Equites Sagittarii

  • Himyar
    - Zodiac Archers

  • Sassanid Empire
    - Persian Camel Archers
    - Persian Mounted Bowmen
    - Zhayedan Immortal Cavalry

In my tests, units with Cantabrian Circle ability will suffer a loss of x1.26 per unit
and units without Cantabrian Circle ability(vaniila units) will suffer a bigger loss of x1.90 per unit
as you can see in one of those images

the kill ratio is x1.54 for units with Cantabrian Circle ability and only x1.25 for units without Cantabrian Circle ability becouse, more mens alive in your unit, more damage they will do to the enemy unit, but all this stats will depend on how good is that horse archer unit vs your opponent unit

But a better explanation you can see in that video made by a nice guy
Turumba TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqwvvUUXd8

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33 Comments
Sav@g3 Y0r ButHuL !! Oct 6, 2023 @ 8:52pm 
Needs an update! Mercenary horse archers can't form cantabrian circle
akyuz Dec 12, 2020 @ 10:19am 
this works for 1.6.0
乂 Menumorut 乂  [author] Mar 4, 2020 @ 2:41pm 
@swaggy 7th place
no

to make it work, you only need to use PackFileManager and edit the file that add units to this...Cantabrian Circle
8sat Mar 4, 2020 @ 2:07pm 
this works for mk1212?
Ragnar Jun 19, 2018 @ 7:53pm 
Would it be alright if you made one for AE, if you can that would be great
乂 Menumorut 乂  [author] Jun 19, 2018 @ 5:56pm 
@Ragnar

nop
in this mod you have a list with attila Missile Cavalry unis

for AE mod to work, need AE Missile Cavalry unit list.
Ragnar Jun 19, 2018 @ 5:44pm 
Is this mod compatible with Ancient Empires?
乂 Menumorut 乂  [author] Jan 22, 2018 @ 11:48am 
@Mr.Brightness
I dont own that mod so I can test it :steamsad:
Kelebrim_ Jan 22, 2018 @ 9:01am 
can you add this for age of charlemange and others?
乂 Menumorut 乂  [author] Dec 2, 2017 @ 11:58am 
@Eparati, they can't go around infantry, its not like a Sioux style or similar
only face the enemy, good vs enemy missile units, thats all.