What is the point of cavalry. Seriously

They have first strike, nice. But they do roughly as much damage as spitting at the bandits and have so little health that your enemies may mistake them for after dinner mints. To take out a small bandit camp at the level you get them, it would take a full force of 200. If you can't 1hit-KO what you're fighting with them, then you must have a sufficient force to defend them since they're attacked before archers.

I guess what I'm saying is, outside of a 1-hit KO situation, what reason is there for me to want cavalry? They do less damage and have less health then anything else at my disposal, in combat lasting more then 1 round they become a liability, if your enemy gets a counter-attack then they're a tyrannosaurus waste of resources.

I would love to be corrected.

dogs and archers would be two reasons you will need them.

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Originally Posted by Benni

dogs and archers would be two reasons you will need them.

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No. You don't want to spend these expensive units on dogs and wolves. If there is a camp with just archers or lower hit point goons you can send in like 175 cavalry and 25 recruits and save a bunch of recruits that way. Most adventures will require you or assume you have about 200 cavalry, some much more. It is a very useful unit in the game, they are just situational.

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Originally Posted by Bobj

No. You don't want to spend these expensive units on dogs and wolves. If there is a camp with just archers or lower hit point goons you can send in like 175 cavalry and 25 recruits and save a bunch of recruits that way. Most adventures will require you or assume you have about 200 cavalry, some much more. It is a very useful unit in the game, they are just situational.

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They are useful for adventures but don't really help with bandit camps though. Is that what you're saying?

You'll find them useful when it comes time to fight Wild Mary.

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Originally Posted by SirRoy

Really? If you have to ask, I can't hope to explain it to you.

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You, SirRoy, are an meanie.

Everyone else though, thank you. Very helpful. I guess they'll just find their purpose later in the game then.

when you hit 26, there are a few bandit camps in adventures where you can take out a camp with 200 cav and suffer no losses. If that's not a good reason to raise ponies, I don't know what is.

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Originally Posted by Lysserd

You, SirRoy, are an meanie.

Everyone else though, thank you. Very helpful. I guess they'll just find their purpose later in the game then.

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Come on. Lighten up.
That kind of language is not called for.
My apologies, sincerely.

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Originally Posted by Oabol

They are useful for adventures but don't really help with bandit camps though. Is that what you're saying?

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Like someone else said you will need them for chuck's camp/metal tooth's camp/wild mary but those are sacraficial situations since all the cavalry will die. So many of the medium/hard bandit camps have dogs so you shouldn't send in cav for those since it is wasteful.

Also adventures like witch swamp will not be completed unless u sacrifice 70 cavalry in wave 1. It can but would be more expensive since i have seen even 3 waves to defeat the main witch, instead of the 2 waves it takes with the 70c tactic. Other adventures require such sacrifices i'm sure and the beginning of this same adventure will require you to use 185-190 cavalry to minimize loss of lots of recruits. Also, to minimize losses you should send recruits as meat shield so even if the fight continues for 2 waves, your recruit will die and not the cavalry.

Cavalry is a big help in most and necessity in some. Hope this will change your mind :)

cavs r mostly used against courageous boss, who absorbs damage be4 his fellows take damage. also, cavs r useful against low hp units like archers and many adventure units like dark priest etc. don't underestimate an army of 200 cav ......

Cav are great. You can use them for wolves in adventures (because most wolves get first strike but not attack weakest like in SFTR). They're still great for bandit camps because if you have 40 recruits and 40 cavalry, you still minimize your losses with the first strike, even if they only kill 10 bandits, that's 10 bandits that won't do damage to your recruits, letting the melee (meatshield) units take fight more fights and last longer. the only drawback to cav is that they are low on HP, but being that they get First strike, i would expect their damage to be on the low end.

There is one trick in the North of Stealing From The Rich where 1 garrison of 200 cavalry can be set to attack the furthest away of 4 watchtowers surrounding a boss camp.

Each of the first 3 towers intercept them and are killed, and the final tower is killed, all without a single loss.

That's the most awesome use I have seen for cavalry so far.

Here is the link to the SFTR walkthrough.

http://forum.castleempireonline.com/...908#post163908