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I've been a fan of Total War since RTW. Sadly it's been since then that I've been able to enjoy using cavalry. To me cavalry in M2TW was just plain broken. I almost never used it, since it was so time consuming to make it work right that you had to neglect the rest of your army and often lose the entire battle while you were trying to micro-manhandle your cavalry into position and then make them actually do what you wanted them to do. I can't count the times I watched my cavalry fizzle and get slaughtered because they would stop charging mere meters away from the enemy and start milling around, or all the times I watched Mailed Knights get hacked to bits by a rabble of peasants with pitchforks. Cavalry in that game was so hard to use that only the CPU seemed to be able to manage it at the same time as the rest of it's army. Usually to great effect, which caused me no end of frustration, especially when my cavalry response was milling around like a bunch of idiots getting slaughtered by the enemy. I understand that the way cavalry worked in RTW was unrealistic and I do care about realism, but I also want to be able to enjoy using cavalry, rather than being forced to micro-manage it every baby-step of the way. The few times that I used small, all-cavalry forces for scouting and ambush and fought battles where I had only one or two cavalry units in my whole army, they worked spectacularly, winning me some really cool victories. I just hope that CA can figure out a way to incorporate realistic cavalry which can be used effectively in pitched battle without neglecting the main fight. Let me know what you think.