Pontus Melee Cavalry

Cappadocian Cavalry

Cappadocian horsemen could be found in many armies of Asia Minor, but were most common in the forces of Pontus and Armenia. Although the riders had scale armour and open helmets, so as not to impair their vision, their horses were unarmoured, allowing them a good degree of speed and manoeuvrability. They were certainly faster across ground than the heavy cataphracts used by eastern armies. These horsemen were most often placed on the flanks of an army to counter any enemy infantry skirmishers or light horse. Charges into spear or pike-armed phalanxes would have been stupid, and fatal. At the Battle of Gaugamela in 331BC, Cappadocian cavalry overwhelmed Alexander’s Asian and Greek mercenary cavalry, only to be halted by the Thessalians.

Unit Name Cappadocian Cavalry

Main Unit Key Eas_Cappadocian_Cav

Land Unit Key Eas_Cappadocian_Cav

Naval Unit Key persian_transport

Soldiers 90

Category Cavalry

Class Melee Cavalry

Custom Battle Cost 710

Recruitment Cost 710

Upkeep Cost 85

Melee Attack 33

Weapon Damage 32

├ Melee Weapon rome_spear_cav_elite

├ Melee Damage Base 21

├ Melee Damage Ap 11

├ Armour Piercing No

├ Bonus vs. Large 10

├ Bonus vs Elephants 14

└ Bonus vs Infantry 10

Charge Bonus 36

Melee Defence 85

├ Base Defence 50

├ Shield cavalry

└ Shield Defence 35

Armour 87

├ Armour scale

├ Armour Defence 57

└ Shield Armour 30

Health 120

├ Man Entity rome_infantry_heavy

├ Man Health 55

├ Bonus Hit Points 15

├ Mount rome_eastern_horse_spear_shield_h

├ Mount Entity rome_horse_heavy

└ Mount Health 50

Base Morale 60

Abilities

• Diamond
  The unit moves into a diamond-shaped attack formation.
  Charge bonus, melee attack
  Acceleration, melee defence

Attributes

• Hide (forest)
  This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
• Resistant to Heat
  This unit tires less quickly in the desert.

Strengths & Weaknesses

• Very poor hull strength
• Very slow speed
• Weak ramming

• Very good attack
• Average defence
• Low damage but average armour penetration
• Good morale

Faction Availability
Grand Campaign	Cappadocia Eastern Rebels Pontus Pontic Nobles
Imperator Augustus	Cappadocia (Imperator Augustus) Eastern Rebels (Imperator Augustus) Pontus (Imperator Augustus)