Carbine or Bow Cavalry/LH

[hazelbark]

A few various armies Ottomans and such can have Cavalry and sometimes LH with either Carbine or Bow.

I was originially thinking bow with extra range and easier to hit POAs.

But in a recent game I had to cope with cavarly superior carbines and with wicked rolls and death dice I got shot up prety well.

So my current thinking is 1 Cavalry w/carbines supported by 1 LH w/bows. So get the extra hits but still get the death rolls.

What say you all?

[kadeshuk]

Bow are especially useful if combined with a greater number of firearms, as they stand a greater chance of hitting and do not then have to take a -2 on a death roll......

[footslogger]

Any further thoughts/experience on this? I'm wondering about the case purely with light horse. Do you prefer them with carbines or with bows?

[VictorJ]

From my limited experience, if you are intenting to evade with LH, bows give a little more security with their longer shooting range, so may be better, especially if the target is unarmoured mounted.

[hazelbark]

Any further thoughts/experience on this? I'm wondering about the case purely with light horse. Do you prefer them with carbines or with bows?

I took a mix in a recent game. Carbine cavalry and bow LH. I am not convinced that the LH with bow are apprciably different. But then i was often throwing like 4 carbine dice and 2 bow. So at that volume i did not see a big difference.

[footslogger]

I don't have much experience but it seems like an interesting tradeoff. I'm a little inclined to prefer carbines but am not sure.