Anyone like to maneuver?

[domainking]

Horse archers are the units to show this power in the battlefields.

[Chad29]

I do like horse archers. Running around, picking off units, and chasing down routers. It helps when they have the fast moving ability and are effective against armor.

[shikaka]

I love them myself.
The view of horse archers is strange on this forum though.
I hear 'too much micromanagement' 'boring and easy to win' too often


The first part is only partly true. I usually use 3 groups of horse archers, which are managed as groups, so it is not that much (but is is a bit more then managing 1 battle line of course).
Easy to win? Well, you can shoot italian milita armies to bits, even without maneuvering, that's no fun, true. However battles between horse archer armies (Hungary-Byzantium, Russia-mongols, Byzantium-Turks, etc.) are my favourites in this game. Also I am sometimes sweating blood when I am battleing heavy cavalry armies (usually 8 mailed knights, I guess from rewards).


The thing is, after I learned to use horse archers I don't like heavy infantry meatgrinders anymore. I find those boring, so I usually quite playing France/HRE/Scotland/England/Milan/Venice/Sicily very soon. I can get somewhere with iberians, since at least they have javelins

[Il Medico]

Horse archers are fun to use. They usually are that backbone of my Russian and Turkish armies, and a important part of my Byzantine armies (I like to roleplay and recreate legion with Byzzie infantry). Western factions get Mounted Crossbowmen way to late for them to really make to much of a difference, and against proper horse archers, they are toast.