Scorpions, Ballistas or repeating ballistas?

[Titus Maximius Thongus]

the main purpose of light cav is to run down skirmishers, archers, horse archers, and tire out heavy cav and to frustrate your opponent.

[Maiar93]

Oh, and to distract chaz and ele(with killing a few of them), and "to run down skirmishers, archers, horse archers, and tire out heavy cav and to frustrate your opponent."

[|Sith| Max]

sane people do not let their fasties get near chaz or ele.

[Maiar93]

You mean "people who understand how to play RTW"

[Hopit]

You mean "people who understand how to play RTW"

you only need to be sane to do that

[Maiar93]

I'm sure most of the people have a better IQ than their foot size

[Marcus Licinius]

Depends on what type of battle you prefer, defense use artillery, offence, not that usefull

[Hopit]

don't use them at all in mp
only in sp when sieging...

[Cesarz]

i would find an extra unit of light cavalry more useful then a single unit of art in most cases, the damage they do for the slot they take up in your army is not worth it imo. I realize you dont always need 20 units but they still only cause like 30 casualties on normal settings unless you get the AI to just sit in range.

I usually play as Rome, preferring to go directly for enemy cities and force multiple armies to attack me. If I want to take a city quickly, then the artillery is more useful than light cav. I rarely use light cav anyway, only when the enemy is in the midst of a full-scale rout or when desperate.

[Titus Maximius Thongus]

using light cavalry well is an art. they are real game changers when used right

[DarthLazy]

Onagers save time on Blitzing. One whole Turn to be exact. And when you have 10 stacks next to 10 cities its the fastest blitzing there is.

[Blatta Optima Maxima]

Indeed. I took all of ERE in 10 turns as the sassanids in IBFD, just because the startiong armies had heavy onagers.

Oh, and they are much more accurate there.

[Publius Otho]

Onagers save time on Blitzing. One whole Turn to be exact. And when you have 10 stacks next to 10 cities its the fastest blitzing there is.

[|Sith|Galvanized Iron]

Light cav cannot decimate an entire army with hammer and anvil, they'd get killed. Heavy cav is for that purpose. Light cav gets the chaz and elephants for you

Say that to the Long Shield Cavalry

[Maiar93]

I would classify them as medium cavalry ^^

They are light/heavy cav, dunno.

[|Sith| Max]

Lots of units are classified as medium cav.

[Maiar93]

To my knowledge only long shields, roman cavalry, and persian cavalry... or have i missed something?

[|Sith| Max]

You forgot Egy Axie cav and HHM

[Maiar93]

Yea, those are the ones

[Genius of the Restoration]

To add my two cents:
Ballistas, Repeaters and Scorpions are too inefficient to be taken seriously. Some people like using Onagers, but I've never found them helpful enough to warrant their cost and the speed penalty on the campaign map. Yes, you don't have to wait to siege, but a couple of spies will help with that, not slow you down, and be much more useful in general. I disagree with some people about them.

Light cav cannot decimate an entire army with hammer and anvil, they'd get killed. Heavy cav is for that purpose. Light cav gets the chaz and elephants for you

I have repeatedly and effectively used small light cav forces to defeat armies much larger than their own. It's perfectly possible, it just requires a willingness to micromanage and, above all, patience.