Light Cavalry...winged Demons of the battlefield

**Doge Domenico** · June 25, 2011, 08:15 PM

So in a battle, a unit of heavy cavavlry charged my spears and the spear wall took only 30 casualties. Then some light cavalry charged. 2 horsmen got through the arrow storm, yet when they hit, they immediately caused 15 casulties. I can only imagine what would have happened had they all survived the charge to my units. Are there any sub mods that can fix this?

**k/t** · June 25, 2011, 09:20 PM

Maybe the arrow storm hit your guys too.

Light cavalry (along with everything else) has been reworked in the new version of RC. Which won't be out for a while.

If you don't want to wait, reduce the mass of light cavalry and their charge bonus.

Einstein didn't actually say that, did he?

**Doge Domenico** · June 25, 2011, 09:38 PM

Will it work if I increase the mass of the spearmen?

And yup, he said it to steven hawking lol

**k/t** · June 25, 2011, 09:51 PM

Then the spearmen will do better when charged by heavy cavalry and when charging infantry.

**Doge Domenico** · June 26, 2011, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by k/t

Then the spearmen will do better when charged by heavy cavalry and when charging infantry.

Oh ok, thanks, I dont wanna make them cheat!

**Marie Louise von Preussen** · June 26, 2011, 09:48 AM

Decent light cavalry is actually very rare to recruit. And early on, when your infantry truly sucks, it is historically accurate to have any sort of cavalry as a battlefield dominator. Your field armies should be mostly composed of cavalry in the Early period (with infantry playing mostly subordinate roles and serving as meat shields), unless you're an infantry specialist faction (like Denmark).