Minor Calvary Exploit

[popejubal]

I was going to post that. Alexander the greats loved his calvary. And other armies had calvary. According to wikipedia in India Alexander faced off against 30,000 calvary, 38,000 infantry, and 30 elephants.

Alexander faced off against 30,000 horse mounted spear-wielding soldiers and 38,000 spearmen or swordsmen.

They were certainly not cavalry and infantry since none of the horsemen had pistols or much in the way of projectile weapons at all while the spearmen or swordsmen that he faced almost certainly did not have accurate repeating rifles.

These are reserved game terms. Using Cavalry as "guy on a horse that wants to kill me" kind of defeats the idea of breaking down mounted units into different types.

Oh wait longbow men and archers should have 0 defensive bonuses in forest and recieve -10% if attacking into a forest.

Robin Hood disagrees with you.

 

[jeremiahrounds]

I was applying cavalry in its historical sense. Only in civ4 does cavalry only mean pistol and rifle wielding horse soldiers.

Its kind of silly to say the gunpowder horse unit requires knights when the idea of a mounted army is as old as armies themselves.

Robinhood wasnt an army. 2000 archers in heavy woods is not the same force it is in a plain. It is quite a bit disadvantaged from its peak power.

Kind of something I am tuned into cause of my experience as an armor crewmember. Things with dominating range like wide open spaces in which to manifest that advantage.

 

[Moxxa]

Its kind of wierd how you can make muskets without researching metal casting first, too.

 

[oyzar]

numedian cavelery....

 

[Mizar]

i.e. the united states

The united stated didn't have kinghts because the time of knights (in the western civilization) was already over when the US were formed.
When the spanish landed in 1492, they already had muskets.

 

[csar508]

The united stated didn't have kinghts because the time of knights (in the western civilization) was already over when the US were formed.
When the spanish landed in 1492, they already had muskets.

obviously

 

[Yeekim]

That said, I usually don't spend much effort going for MilTrad either. Yes, if my UU is cavalry-based, otherwise probably not.

Which nation's UU is cavalry -based? Or did you think of upgrading your seasoned Immortals or Numidian Cavalry?

As for the point, I used to neglect knights. However, in my current game as Persia, I had a number of Combat IV Immortals, whom I upgraded to Knights... and something seems strange. They have fare unlikely well against longbowmen in cities. I win something like 3 of every 5 battles , although the odds are like 25% only. I wonder, if the combat calculator takes into account longbowman's first strike, neglecting the fact, that Knights are immune...

 

[csar508]

Which nation's UU is cavalry -based? Or did you think of upgrading your seasoned Immortals or Numidian Cavalry?

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