{"id":251,"date":"2011-09-27T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/?p=251"},"modified":"2014-08-01T14:35:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T14:35:55","slug":"atg-lesson-9-cavalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"ATG Lesson 9 : Cavalry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cavalry\"Is an expensive infantry troop type that requires no research to produce. However its levels will go up when you research infantry. Although it has the same number of hit points as rifle infantry it is three times as expensive (in production points) to build. Off-setting this costliness cavalry has three times the offensive value of regular rifle in attacking enemy infantry, artillery or soft-mobile. However that in itself would not make it a valuable troop type since using three rifle instead of one cavalry would still be much more cost-effective, especially in defense. <\/p>\n

What makes cavalry really useful is its speed. Cavalry can move over six friendly hexes or four enemy plain hexes in one round. That\u2019s not as quick as tanks, but getting close. <\/p>\n

Now when you are fighting in open terrain I would advise to build tanks and armored cars because they will be more cost effective in battle then cavalry. But when you are fighting in forests, mountains and swamps then I would advise to build cavalry. This because cavalry has better all-terrain movement rates then mechanized troops. Also cavalry has much less penalties in attacking troops in difficult terrain (max -25%) and also much less problems in crossing rivers without a bridge.<\/p>\n

Remember to not use cavalry in defense since that would be a waste of this quite expensive troop type. Use regular infantry for defense and use cavalry in attempts to encircle enemy troops and raid behind the enemy frontlines. Try to see them as soft-skinned panzers!<\/p>\n

Furthermore it should be pointed out you can make a cheap poor-mans variant of cavalry by putting horses and infantry in the same unit. One horse troop type will carry ten infantry. However the movement rate of horse is not as good as cavalry, since horses are basically work horses, not riding horses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is an expensive infantry troop type that requires no research to produce. However its levels will go up when you research infantry. Although it has the same number of hit points as rifle infantry it is three times as expensive … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}