Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26295802-20160222014740/@comment-25356210-20160222181337

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: Edacnik wrote: Your troops might be good, but you'd definitely lack numbers, and even with good troops, Kataprakts are the kings of Calvary. Medium shock cavalry like Cataphracts are very much not the best. Swan Knights in their plate armour are much more heavily armed, and the best counter for light cavalry is heavy cavalry. The actual word I got "Kataprakt" from is Cataphract with literally means "completely enclosed" or "heavily armoured," so saying they are "medium shock Calvary" would be incorrect. Now, with middle earth aspects, these men are even better.

A: Easterlings. Closely related to the Wainriders of Khand. As so, they are very naturally skilled.

B: Numbers. Easterlings are of great numbers.

C: Tower shields. Not only do East Empire Kataprakts have plate armour, but they have tower shields which gives them one advantage.

D: Resourceful. Easterlings were rich and had lots of supplies to equip all these men.

E: If this isn't already enough, Cho Ku Nus. While these repeating crossbows are inaccurate, they can turn charges away quite well with sheer numbers of bolts.