Eastern units

[AU4Brent]

If you could recruit just one eastern unit as a western faction, what would it be? For me, it would be the naffatun. I flippin love those guys.

[claudius2007]

For me it would be the Dvors.. Heavy cavalry/horse archers.

[AU4Brent]

For me it would be the Dvors.. Heavy cavalry/horse archers.

Could you see a stack with nothing but Dvors and Lancers? Good luck pinning that down with heavy infantry.

[claudius2007]

Could you see a stack with nothing but Dvors and Lancers? Good luck pinning that down with heavy infantry.

It's just that the Dvor is one of the best heavy cavalry in the game. A lot of people call out all kinds of german and french knights but let's be serious, can you name another armoured heavy cavalry that's also a heavy archer? Meaning instead of having 2-3 Heavy Cavalry and 4 Horse archers you can just have 6-7 in one army that are BOTH. That means you have on average 240-280 arrows flying at the enemy only from your horse archers every second. Not to mention if you are the russians and have dismounted dvors than basically all your cavalry/infantry is also an archer.

[DeMolay]

Hungarian nobles or Bulgarian brigands , although it's not really eastern , just sort of exotic . Dvor archers are great also . Purely eastern , my pick would be the Mongol heavy horse archers or any type of Janissary unit

[Old_Scratch]

Naffatun.

[Old Geezer]

Most Western factions are sorely lacking in fast cavalry, so pinning down most of the Eastern factions fast cavalry troops is a difficult task. A jinetes heavy army is just about as difficult, esp. since the AI never seems to run out of javelins. I always hire as many Alan cavalry as I can when I move my Western power to the East - even if I have jinetes or border horsies.

[The Fishman]

Barring silly things like Mongol heavy archers or elephants (!), I would say Sipahi, or indeed any of the better horse archers.

[Muagan_ra]

Sipahi. The best cavalry in the game, I say with some confidence.