Are cavalry and elephants broken?

[avara]

Everytime I've used any type of cavalry, my units just stop when they reach an enemy after charging, elephants aswell, even with trample, double-clicking behind enemy lines and against missile units, once the first soldier reachs the enemy the rest just seem to act as common foot soldiers, am I the only one having this problem?

[geyserik]

I have not had this problem cavalry & elephants have worked fine for me but I believe you are having this problem with the amount of problems everyone is reporting in this game.

[wulfgar610]

Yeah, I've seen it with cavalry.

[Stone Sentinel]

I remember the issue where I couldn't pull back my cavalry because they kept wanting to reengage the enemy. Been busy with school so I haven't tried again with the latest patch.

[DarthShizNit]

Don't have this with Cav, but scythed chariots and Elephants are useless on the charge because like you said, they just stand there after making contact with the first row. Best way around this I've found is to use them on steep hills, it creates the desired effect of sending the whole unite flying.

I think people a little too much after the Battle of the Nile vid and chariots and elephants went from sending men flying like rockets upon impact, to stopping to politely ask the unit to get out of the way.

[JaM]

guess how would real cavalry unit behave? Horse would not naturally run to a block of men. it would try to stop. thats the reason why cavalry never attacked straight on into solid infantry. They are animals, not robots. Animal instincts are hard to suppress, and they really don't want to get hurt.

[VanGoth]

Cav and Ele working just fine for me with latest patch, much more responsive and even disengaging now is possible quite fast. These are observations from MP only, gonna test them in SP right now, wanna know if theres actually a difference because right now i can't confirm any probs with these particular units.