Right at the star for Macedonia, the Light Lancers are their best units. They're cheap, they're the first cavalry unit you can recruit. They're fast. They have 9 charge which is the same value as Companion Cavalry and Cataphracts. For Macedon I made it a point to have 3-4 Light Lancers in a field army. A handful of these Light Lancers will break pretty much anyone within seconds of the focused charge landing. The Macedonian Militia Hoplites / Levy Pikemen can form a solid battle line while the 3-4 Light Lancers go on the flanks to break enemy cavalry, archers, skirmishers, and then crash the infantry from the flanks and rear. They do this very well. The Light Lancers allow the Macedon player to have true, potent cavalry charges for Hammer & Anvil on Turn 1. The other Hellenic factions don't quite get to do that until later. The Greek Cities have garbage cavalry. The Seleucids have a very potent Cavalry roster but they come a lot later. If you want some Auto-Resolve cheese as the Seleucids? Spam Scythed Chariots.
I would say, for every faction, just spam 1 unit in that order of availability (cheap) Horse Archer > (any) Phalanx > (decent morale+) Melee Generals are the only cavalry you need until very late and archers are only exceptional in wooden wall sieges, artillery is too slow on campaign map
Don’t underestimate skirmishers. Skirmisher cavalry especially, but generally speaking ranged effectiveness + moderate melee effectiveness, the cavalry act as light cavalry when they run out of ammo. Yes you can do the same in all tw games with horse archers, but they aren’t as good as melee cavalry (usually).
Right at the star for Macedonia, the Light Lancers are their best units. They're cheap, they're the first cavalry unit you can recruit. They're fast. They have 9 charge which is the same value as Companion Cavalry and Cataphracts. For Macedon I made it a point to have 3-4 Light Lancers in a field army. A handful of these Light Lancers will break pretty much anyone within seconds of the focused charge landing.
The Macedonian Militia Hoplites / Levy Pikemen can form a solid battle line while the 3-4 Light Lancers go on the flanks to break enemy cavalry, archers, skirmishers, and then crash the infantry from the flanks and rear. They do this very well.
The Light Lancers allow the Macedon player to have true, potent cavalry charges for Hammer & Anvil on Turn 1. The other Hellenic factions don't quite get to do that until later. The Greek Cities have garbage cavalry. The Seleucids have a very potent Cavalry roster but they come a lot later.
If you want some Auto-Resolve cheese as the Seleucids? Spam Scythed Chariots.
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I would say, for every faction, just spam 1 unit in that order of availability
(cheap) Horse Archer > (any) Phalanx > (decent morale+) Melee
Generals are the only cavalry you need until very late and archers are only exceptional in wooden wall sieges, artillery is too slow on campaign map
Pretty much this, honorable mention to chariot spam
You value slingers really high. I almost never use them. 🤔
Don’t underestimate skirmishers. Skirmisher cavalry especially, but generally speaking ranged effectiveness + moderate melee effectiveness, the cavalry act as light cavalry when they run out of ammo. Yes you can do the same in all tw games with horse archers, but they aren’t as good as melee cavalry (usually).
Why no remaster?
we're getting there, pc runs this better atm