Those are all good points, suited. I don't think about strategy at that level of granularity yet. Although I've figured out a style that works for horse archers, I've gotten worse at infantry / mixed infantry-cav armies. I'm now banging my head against the Arab Conquest campaigns, which seems surpri...

The lancers are good when you just really need your cavalry to be less evasive. Experimenting some more with lancers, I finally found a good use for them in cav fights. They're much better at pinning opponent cav units than horse archers. A pinned opponent unit is almost useless, and a lancer is ju...

That makes sense. Holding horse archers in reserve can be considered even more of a "waste" of their initial shooting ability. And I hear you on massed lancers. When I face mass lancer armies, I immediately go on the defensive, rather than try to figure out an offensive game plan. That's w...

Sitting is a major part of your reserves job. Given the mobility of lancers, your opponent is going to have to account for them in his ongoing plan. Right. I get that. But what's the advantage of a lancer sitting there in reserve vs a horse archer in reserve? Lancers aren't really cheaper, and a ho...

Ok. I'll need to experiment some more with the lancers. I'm intrigued by the idea of spacing out the lancers with 2 squares in between to hold back a horde of infantry. That's so efficient, even if they eventually crumble, it seems well worth it. I too generally prefer to keeping shooting until frag...

Lancers, even with a general, are not usually going to run down medium or heavy foot in good order straight up. More often than not in such cases, they will hit and simply bounce, assuming there's room to do so. Where they excel is dealing with already disrupted or fragmented foot, or flanking alre...

One thing I haven't figured out is how to use lancers. I figured out how to play Huns just by never picking any lancers, so every cav unit I have can shoot, and I have fire superiority when fighting equal numbers of opponent cav. Then I can just shoot & wait until my opponent makes a mistake. I ...

After watching snuggle's vids and experimenting with some of the tips in this post, I think I'm getting the hang of using cavalry. Before I had been prioritizing focus fire+dps too much, causing my units to be too clumped up and not deep enough. You don't have to attack with that many of your units ...

Here's a link to the 12 season army records. https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=107874 Thanks! There are a few outliers, but overall, it's suprisingly even. Good job, whoever did the balance! Although it doesn't help armchair history buffs who want to argue which armies beat which one...

If you check the old Digital League forums, you can find the data for armies used. Naturally, not all were used, and a few more dlcs were released after DL closed down, but it's probably the only such collection of data. I saw this: https://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=83417 but it date...

Good point on elephants. Right now, I'm learning Huns and Byzantines, so no elephants for me. But going up against them, they're a load to deal with. I have to refocus all my attention to taking them down a notch or two before collision. Speaking of army lists, I noticed in some of snuggle's videos ...

I also like this one, as it shows a irresistable attack by a Hun horde: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xo8PLSOJ4o0 I'm sure they don't all go that well, but the L shaped attack by the Huns on the corner really sets up multiple flanks once a unit or 2 gets through. Another mental image to strive for.

Hmm I haven't made a guide video on cavalry yet, but you can find plenty of videos of me or opponents using cavalry armies on my channel. Cursory searches for 'Hun' or 'Mongol' on the channel bring up plenty of matches. Of course that is multiplayer, which is even points as opposed to being outnumb...

Thanks. Lots of thoughts to chew on and things to try in my next campaign! One more question: what's the best use of sub-generals/generals in cav armies? Do you move them around a lot? Do generals even improve the shooting ability of a unit? On the flip side, do you target opposing generals or do yo...

Here are some specific questions. What are the main roles of each of these different types of units in a cav engagement: 1. Foot lights - I assume their role is to shoot down opposing horse & foot lights early on, and to block movement later on when out of arrows. The problem is that later on, t...

Wow! Thanks for the detailed responses. A few points already resonate with me: Cheap infantry units are great asset in this kind of fighting since you realistically need to dedicate 2 or 3 units to any single cavalry unit you are aiming to take down. This scales harshly with higher difficulties This...

Thanks for the response. When I'm set against cav armies in campaigns (e.g. the 1st Mithdrates scenario), I do much worse than if I'm against "regular" infantry/mixed armies. I don't have a good approach for a battle plan in those scenarios. So I decided to switch sides and learn to play a...

I'm a newish player (<100hrs) and I've been enjoying playing campaigns against the AI so far. I've mostly figured out how to play infantry armies and mixed infantry-cavalry armies (thanks youtube video makers!), but I am having a lot of trouble dealing with armies with a lot of cavalry (both playing...