So? I never said horsemen are expensive, I said they are useless:
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Okay so we can’t talk about it? It’s timely because community is very unpleased with horseman unit (see large horseman poll), it’s also timely since Kings & Generals has released this absolutely epic video day before yesterday.
Manzikert wasn’t the entire Seljuk army, as much of it stayed in Aleppo. It was only the very fastest units which engaged, basically horsemen only (Byz also kind of rushed an army). Manzikert is the most iconic glory of “horsemen army”.
Alexander’s Companion Cavalry was heavy cavalry, not AoE4’s “horseman”.
Yeah I agree with that, Mongols play like Goths now.
But overall, this civ is already broken, hence one can’t simply “buff Mangudai”… so much needs to change.
Turkish ‘Akinji’ in the video was still similar in function and skill to Mangudai (later in Ottoman period, Turks had heavy cavalry archer plus of tons of unique units), in fact the “Mongol Army” (Genghis’ core army) was actually not “Mongol” but 60% Turkic- 40% Mongol. Genghis was a superlative leader respected by both, but Mongols are much less important in history overall, they quickly disappeared from it.