Make cavalry much much much cheaper?

[Patatti3]

I am really surprised about the enormous amount of resources u need to make cavalry. Why do u need 40 horses to make 1 cavaly, where all other units just need 10 weapons. The only good thing is the advantage of first strike, but if u send cavalry to a camp, its a certain death for all cavalry. And that really hurts. Only 5 hp and 5-10 damage...really why??
Can anyone explain why the cost is so extreme high and the strengh so extreme low? This doesn't make any sense if u compare it to all other units.
I would say: make the cost of cavalry 10 horses and 10-15 beer to get a better balance and/or add a new unit (say "heavy cavalry") and make them a bit more expensive (about 20 horses) and a bit stronger. The cavalry we now have is less than light cavalry, don't u agree?

[Luuk_The_Great]

Agree, so, you want light and heavy cavalry?

[Qualan]

the cav is for selected use, same with many other types of units- most people will not send em to certain death unless that is the only winning tactic. Same with soldiers, xbows etc. If possible there will be a tactic using recruits and/or bows to weaken a camp or to eat the deaths while the cav/xbows etc do their work

rule of thumb is - do not use cav against other first strike units and use cav to take out the longbow/xbow with their first strike ability. That way the expense of making cav is largely an incidental one. On most adventures you will lose zero cav or maybe 15 cav compared to 100's of recruits- as long as you use em in the right way

[sparkz]

I am really surprised about the enormous amount of resources u need to make cavalry. Why do u need 40 horses to make 1 cavaly, where all other units just need 10 weapons. The only good thing is the advantage of first strike, but if u send cavalry to a camp, its a certain death for all cavalry. And that really hurts. Only 5 hp and 5-10 damage...really why??

Because its a unit thats whole tactical purpose is eliminating enemys ranged units. You get first strike to make that possible before they can shoot, 10 max damage to be able to kill a unit in one blow and 5 minimum damage with 90% something accuracy so that sometimes you cant do it in one blow (thus you cant just add 1:1 amount of cavalry in every fight, you have to play with numbers).

Also the cost is fine, because if youre careful enough, theres a possibility of reaching maximum level without losing any of those units.

[Dilbe]

... but if u send cavalry to a camp, its a certain death for all cavalry....

When cavalry is used right you should loose zero or close to none.

[BenFranklin]

My question is simple what do they do eat the horses?

[Luuk_The_Great]

You need that much horses, because you will get lots of horsemen if it wouldn't cost that much... Though, it could be some cheaper...

[ukwicca]

would the game be unbalanced with cheaper cav ? probably , could give them longbows