Armoured cavalry in V2 - what advantages are there?

[nigelemsen]

My initial reading of the POAs appears that you need two armour classes difference to gain the +poa. Given the extra cost of armoured cavalry over protected cavalry is there any real advantage to them?

Given a bit of pet army (timurids) syndrome not as good as v1 going on here because before fighting majority protected infantry the timurid cavalry gained an amour advantage melee.

Would be nice to know advantages for paying for armoured cavalry.

Cheers

[ravenflight]

My initial reading of the POAs appears that you need two armour classes difference to gain the +poa. Given the extra cost of armoured cavalry over protected cavalry is there any real advantage to them?

Given a bit of pet army (timurids) syndrome not as good as v1 going on here because before fighting majority protected infantry the timurid cavalry gained an amour advantage melee.

Would be nice to know advantages for paying for armoured cavalry.

Cheers

I might be wrong - it's happened before (1973) but i'm of the opinion a SECOND POA cannot be gained by superior armour, and so Armoured vs Protected cav will still give a +POA, but armoured sword vs protected no-weapon would still only give you a +POA, not ++

[nigelemsen]

So what rule is trying to state to get a ++ you need to have 2 armour class difference. Otherwise you are on +poa. Thanks. I had heard they where trying to stop barbarian foot from just imploding against SSw/armoured romans. Byron and are going to behaving a practice v2 game. 5x3 table with byron bringing cav heavy late roman vs my elephant heavy sassinad persians... Could be messy with the new end of world/table edge rules.

[list_lurker]

The better armoured POA states that - it's does not apply if the is only one level of advantage AND it would not bring the overall net POA above +


So if you are 2 levels better, you get it , or one level and net level POA ... Giving you a plus

[pyruse]

The change in v2 is that better armour will not give you ++POA if you already have +POA, unless you are two or more armour levels better.
So Armoured Skilled Sword legionaries vs Protected Warband are no longer ++POA, only + (for the Skilled sword)
But heavily armoured skilled sword knights against Protected swordsmen would get the ++POA.