How many cavalry to bring to insane and suicide?

You are one of the strongest players in either world. Have I missed your point or is it just that obvious.


Just puzzled by the post.

soulthief wrote:

You are one of the strongest players in either world. Have I missed your point or is it just that obvious.

The answer is not obvious to me, if one or two make more sense.  So I'm asking for help & opinions of others.

Earlier, on the smaller map, Tibr suggested to me to use one instead of two, and he was correct.  Thanks, Tibr

Now he posted:

Tibr wrote:

Now it may be valid again to use more than one cavalery in suicide, because biggest threat is coming from archers now.

So I'd like to find out which is better now (with the larger map):  One or two cavalry?

The major problem with one is ... it dies often¹ (though 95% of the time it does get all the cannons before then being killed off by the archers).

The major problem with two is ... attracts too much attention² (and hard to maneuver).  And also makes the overall rest of army weaker.

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¹Since it dies often (mostly from archers) ... it loses a lot of valuable experience.  So if can bring two, and avoid the deaths, that would be preferable.
²By "attracts too much attention" I mean, too many other enemy units come after it, making it actually harder to reach the cannons with two cavalry   ... it really is easier to reach it with just one.  On the other hand, they do tend to survive better ...

Okay I see/ get your point. You if your not already would make a very good attorney, and no I am not trying ti insult you.

well as an elf i want to get 3 cav units at the end in 10 unit army meantime i thouth to chanfge one cav to hi but now that will be 3 for sure

What will you do with the conclusion of this poll, elf?
In each case you bring as many cavs as you (yourself) are comfortable using. Different races have different needs. Also the strategy...

Really, a bit pointless... 'vote instead of testing, yay!'.

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and he was correct.

implying there's one correct answer... HA!

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(and hard to maneuver).  And also makes the overall rest of army weaker.

not hard to maneuver O.o or shouldn't be.
you kinda replied to your own question with '2 cavs are too hard to use/weak'.

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though 95% of the time it does get all the cannons before then being killed off by the archers

so, it does its job and dies. simple.

so really use one.

I would suggest 2 cavs Pearl.

Granted, I'm a Dwarf now and have absolutely no experience on the new larger maps while using Elven Cavalry....however I feel like stating my opinion regardless What is life without a little ignorant arrogance every once in a while, after all?....Well, probably still life...but hey; I'm struggling to justify myself here.

Anyways, the reason I suggest two would be so that you split them off, each taking a seperate route towards the 'top' of the map to get to the enemy arty. You simply take routes behind cover, and the cav that has the least threatening attention (i.e. a group of HI trying to chase it down) you run to the arty while the other group you use to either kite enemy melee (archers as well, should they be focussed on it) or simply slaughter archers.

It gives you good time to use the main bulk of your army to slaughter the remainder of the advancing force, since the cav attract so much attention.

I'm assuming they're well geared, so 1v1 against enemy cav should prove to be a successful fight for you. Or if you aren't confident in their killing capacity, you could always fall back to your army, then engage + flank the enemy cav with an LIA or some such thing.

Many ways to play it, but I would go with 2 cav for the 'aggro' play it gives you. The ability to manouver the enemies troops is not to be underrated

Whatever happened with finding things out yourself?
Optimum army compositon is very much subjective.
try out different configurations, write down your findings and draw a conclusion from that.

klaas wrote:

Whatever happened with finding things out yourself?
Optimum army compositon is very much subjective.
try out different configurations, write down your findings and draw a conclusion from that.

shh, it's clear from this thread that lightie logic is different.

Clearly the answer is 7 cavs....you can imagine a picture of 7 cavs because i have neither the motivation, imagination nor technical skill to make such a picture appear.

irishimc wrote:

Clearly the answer is 7 cavs....you can imagine a picture of 7 cavs because i have neither the motivation, imagination nor technical skill to make such a picture appear.

seriously!
though for the record, i have battled a few times with 3 lia 7 cav army, back when cavs were sooo profitable. Seems elvish enough to try, at least a few would survive.