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Subject:
Ottoman Heavy Calvary Rush
Ottoman Heavy Calvary Rush
Everyone knows of the 20 Jan rush. Noobs get bashed by it, and expert players defeat it so easily it’s UP now.
This strat gives another angle from which to use the ottomans. When a Good player sees a Rax, he usually assumed you are Spam-Jan-ing. From this deception, we could make heavy Calvary instead. This works against any civ. with a L.I. unit.
Send: 3 settlers/chp TP;, 700 wood, 3 hussars, and a resource crate if you can’t get 8 hussars right away.
Do not expect to use Sphai’s as these are in the 3rd age. If he makes muskt’s, make Abus from ur AF, then destroy his houses before you go to town on his TC.
Need 700 wood total- use the shipment- AF, RAX, and STABLE, and 5 houses(beginning 500 wood)
8 hussars, 4 grenadiars, (and mabye 5 extra Abus)
After taking out his army which will be Bantha-Fodder for your calvary, make some grenadiers, and use your Calv. to hunt down the rest of his settlers he has hidden somewhere.
How’s this strategy? Does it suck eggs, or can it possibly work? Tell me something. Related to the topic. And no snide remarks. At least no snide remarks that arent funny.
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Subject:
Re: Ottoman Heavy Calvary Rush
 Иван Грозный:
psyopus: Isn't a hussar a light calvary?
no.
Heavy cav = Hussars, cuirrassiers, cossacks, or any other hand cavalry (also rifle riders).
Light cav = Dragoons, cavalry archer, ruyters, or any other cavalry that got ranged attack (including rifle riders).
I think they should change the description of hussar, because it is now something along the lines of "light cavalry armed with cold steel", which would imply it is light cavalry
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Subject:
Re: Ottoman Heavy Calvary Rush
"Heavy cav = Hussars, cuirrassiers, cossacks, or any other hand cavalry (also rifle riders).
Light cav = Dragoons, cavalry archer, ruyters, or any other cavalry that got ranged attack (including rifle riders)."
During the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War in 1854 a contingent of light horse under a mistaken relay of orders attacked up a long valley into artillery and were decimated (well at 118 out of 673 killed a little more than decimated, which is literally is only 1/10th causalities.)
The Light Brigade consisted of the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers, and the 8th and 11th Hussars and was actually sent to retrieve some captured British guns but attacked the main emplaced Russian batteries instead under a mis-relay of orders. Even then they may have fared better had they charged, rather than slowly trotted up the valley, giving the gunners time to train their weapons.
The Heavy Brigade of horse which was composed of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, the 5th Dragoon Guards, the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons and the Scots Greys (carabineers) was held back by its commander as he saw no sense in getting two brigades killed. Though a very reasonable assumption to make, in hindsight this was a mistake as with the support of the Heavy the Light would have probably actually taken the Russian guns that day.
As rifles and ammunition are heavier than swords and lances the game actually has it backwards: hand cavalry should be light and ranged cavalry heavy. Light cavalry tactics are to hit and run, whereas heavy cavalry can stand and fight for a more extended period of time. Another version of cavalry is light horse infantry, which are actually infantry who ride into battle on horses, dismount, and then fight on foot. The US Cavalry in the Indian wars acted thusly and were more mounted infantry than cavalry per se.
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