Druzhina cavalry
Charge 4
Available: Medieval campaign.
Dismount: Anytime for feudal foot knights.
Druzhina cavalry are elite and have a small shield. Generic slow and strong
light cavalry, nothing interesting. Well, not until you dismount them and get a
large unit of feudal foot knights at a fraction of the cost of most other
sources of feudal foot knights and the ability to dismount anywhere before
battle. Don’t train this unit for cavalry instead train it for the foot
knights!
Horsemen
Charge 6 Attack 3 Defence 0 Armour 2 Speed 9, 20, 22 Morale 4 Cost 175 Support
cost 45
Available: Viking campaign.
Dismount: In a siege for round shield spearmen.
Horsemen are elite, have a shield, and are impetuous. They are reasonable light
cavalry for the Viking campaign, use them with the ‘slower and stronger’
style tactics for better results. Think of a slower version of Alan cavalry.
Pictish cavalry
Charge 4 Attack 2 Defence 0 Armour 2 Speed 9, 24, 26 Morale 2 Cost 150 Support
cost 35
Available: Viking campaign.
Dismount: In a siege for Celtic warriors.
Pictish cavalry have a small shield. Generic light cavalry, use with the
‘speedy and weak’ tactics for best results. Think of the Saharan cavalry
from the medieval game.
Viking raider cavalry
Charge 4 Attack -1 Defence 2 Armour 3 Speed 9, 20, 22 Morale 0 Cost 150 Support
cost 40
Available: Viking campaign and medieval campaign.
Dismount: Anytime for Viking carls.
Viking raider cavalry has a round shield. They are rather crap as light cavalry
goes but this is the only mounted unit for the Vikings. Try to use them as per
the ‘speedy and weak’ light cavalry tactics, it improves them a little but
all the same don’t expect miracles. They dismount into the solidly reliable
Viking carls, take advantage of this in battles where you don’t need fast
cavalry much as Carls are much better in a fight.