Reiters

[GNU07]

They are my favorite unit. Panic spreading horsemen with pistols are hard not to like.

However, aside from causing the enemy's morale to drop below zero, do they cause any real physical damage?

I was battling the Timurids and they made the elephants run amok, but they actually didn't kill anything, except 6-7 random archers. Mounted xbows though not frightening the elephants they did much more better at killing them.(with more casualties ofc.)

So yeah. The physical damage they cause, doesn't seem to justify the 16/AP their card says. Sometimes i think that they are firing marshmallows.

[KnightOfPortugal]

Spanish Dragoons in retrofit are the same, only they actually do physical damage and have very long range. Reiters are pretty... pathetic when compared to those beasts.

[VersionLangley]

they carry a spear as their secondary...so they're the only horse archers that can actually cause any damage doing charging hit and run against other cav.
but ur right, they have very short range, slow reload time and on medium horse...so they're specifically anti-heavy cav unit, if you can divert enemies range unit toward something else.

[GNU07]

In melee, yeah, they perform very well. I usually use them to hunt down enemy generals. But its their ranged damage output that bothers me. Same thing happens with the Moorish Gunners. The Spanish Dragoons are indeed beasts. They are like mounted musketeers, 5 units of them can beat anything the enemy throws at you

There must be some kind of ''problem'' with the guns Reiters use. Pistols have less range than muskets, but this is exactly the case. Firing from point black (assuming max accuracy) and with 16/AP attack, they should kill many more soldiers than just 1. I definitely hear a lot of gunfire when i use them but i never hear those bullets hitting the enemy.

[Chad29]

I found their lack of range a deal breaker for me. 20 missile attack is very nice, but doesn't seem all that useful when you have to get in a person's face to hit them. I never found the HRE's military very impressive.

[avion365]

Reiters have to be used agiesnt antother cav force as a holder, becuse anything else besides peasants and you will get crushed. i am shure a mod fixes them but if not ask some one

here

or just ask him;Ishan