I Ranked All Rome 2 Cavalry Units on a Tier List....🤨 

Accurate Tier List? Much love to my RU-vid and Patreon Members!🥰

It seems like as long as you pick a medium/heavy spear armed melee cav your doing it right. The trap is buying the super expensive shock cav. As they dont get as much damage out as their opportunity cost is really high.

Azat knight is my favorite. I have used them in the past and they stood up in the most impossible situation (not just charging, meleeing other cav, but also standing against inf in pitch battle, which is not ideal but happens sometimes) I will put them in the GOD tier.

2 things, First imo you did Iberian cav dirty. They are definitely nowhere near the top of this list, but they are probably the only useful sword cav in the game. Their combination of stats makes the kill skirmishers faster than any other light cav. Sure, you are never going to bring a lot of them but a single Iberian cav waiting for a gap to exploit and kill most of the enemy missile units can be invaluable and they don't cost a lot. Second, the camels aren't actually that heavy. Thier mass is actually on the lower end on of the heavy units in the game. Cataphracts have 1100 mass very heavy shock cav have 800 and camel cataphracts have 750(there are only two camels in the game armored and unarmored). The thing that makes them op is basically CA never gave the proper animations. Camels don't really have a true charge animation like other cavalry. They just go faster when they hit their charge distance. This has the side effect of them just carrying on through a unit in a similar fashion to chariot and elephants, though not as extreme. Why this is such a big deal is good old impact damage. A single model of a Cataphract unit might hit 2 or 3 infantry models on a charge and impart impact damage a camel can easily plow through 5 or more doing impact damage to all of them. Even in cav on cav fights a unit like Saba's Royal Camel Archers with no charge or melee stats to speak of can kill half a steppe armored lancer in a head-to-head charge. It is INSANE!

finally, I've been saying median cav being ridiculous as heck for the price and many people seem to overlook them. Also, I think pontus has the best melee cav roster in the game, they have both noble blood and cappadocian cav (which they can bring more than 2). They also have citizen cav as strong cheap options as well. They also have the cheaper barbarian one but they're not good but it doesn't matter. What I like about pontus is that they have cheap decent infantries so that they have spare gold for those god tier melee cavalries and chariots..

Apologies if I'm missed it, but why didn't you include any of the nomadic culture cavalry units? Royal scythia, roxolani and saka? Cheers for the list anyway!

Why am I here. I’ve never played this game. I have no idea how it works. But yet I still thirst for knowledge

It's a shame CA got rid of chat in MP.. Shows they're trying to push people out of Rome 2, into their other games (aka Pharaoh) I must be the only one wanting a Rome 3.

Pretty much agree, apart from the riders of the hunt and the Egyptian cav. They have decent stats for the price but every time I use them they’re never very effective compared to other and cheaper cav.

You did an awesome job here by doing all these rankings. But I see that you're calculating cost-effectiveness by looking at the unit's cost. But what if you could calculate the unit's cost-effectiveness by the unit's upkeep in the campaign? The cost-effectiveness picture would be a little bit different and it would help folks to create more effective armies for their campaign playthroughs.

Honestly I don't use cav a lot but knowing what's the best to bring is probably more useful than not so thx for the info

I'm addiced to your tierlists!

very good tier list and very close to what I would rank cavalry units. But I need to say something about mercenary Himyar cavalry, I would put them at strong tier. they have the same stats as median cav but they do come with 2 volley of javelins with 32 damage 10 AP and +10 vs large upon charging, this allows them to decimate other melee cavalry units just before they start the fight, which gives them huge advantage. Secondly, they also have frenzied charge while median cav don't, this is really strong if you manage to keep them alive to help with infantry fights, the extra charge bonus they have when using this ability is really nice to have against infantries, somethings the median cav lack.

archers/peltast next please (maybe seperate, but there arent many of either)

I thought hellenic citizen cavalry was pretty bad-ish but in terms of cost, yeah, they are a good support/secondary unit

Legionary Cav is just Equites. More Expensive but not even better, losing 2 Defense for +5 HP(Heavy Infantry Entity instead of Medium Infantry[Equites]), +5 Morale and Disciplined At the cost of +120 and +20 Upkeep.

Meanwhile heir of Carthage hate citizen c

any possibility of doing a missile cavalry tier?

This is very useful and much needed, but very hard to follow. Could we please get some basic timestamps and a written ranking? Most casual people can't recognize the units they are curious about from just a portrait among these. Also "and for 750 we have a unit between Cappadocians and the Medians" - which is that? Why not name it? Yet another reason for a written list in the description.

Noble Horse shouldn't be a different tier than Azat Knights. Yes, the Nobles have slightly more charge, damage and armor, but less defense and bonus vs large. Knights would do better in a prolonged fight vs cav, would they not?

Camels are only good because of a glitch they haven't fixed 😭

Great video, do you have tier list for missile cav?

Where Nomad cavs?

Where are the nomadic cavs?

Was waiting for this one

Loved the video and the list 🤍

What about elephants? And are they ever viable?

Rewatched the video recently and realised that I need a guide how to use cavalry.

Navy next??? please???

How about elephants, chariots, dogs and artillery. I'd love to know your tiered opinion

you should do a missile cav ranking as well

How is barbarian light cav on lacking category? They are fast and have pila. I thought they are atleast strong lol.

Light cavalry in multy, properly used, can be way than better than medium cav. For example the celtic and the Iberian light cavs are very good.

I currently playing rome grand campagin and try to just use cavalry unit to finish the game, it is difficult as most faction have a lot of spearman I don't know if they are the same as in different faction, but rome can hire different Auxiliary Cavarly depend on the region, for example, does the barbarian elite cavalry is same as the Auxiliary Noble Horse?

When can see elephant?

Horse Missile Unit Tier List when?

Bactrian noble cav Should be next the cappadocian

You think Carthaginian cav will beat noble riders or any celtic heavy cav?! 😂

sir is sparta worth buying and tell me the best unit for defend i want to use in peperangan

Armored desert cavalry should be at least decent imo. Well it has only 5 shield armor but has pretty decent melee attack and melee defence. And desert legionary cavalry must be definetly on CA ... It is probably the worst cavalry unit in terms of cost effectiveness.

how is light cav good? they just die even to archers in melee

Roman and carthage bodyguards?

no range cav?

What would you rate Italian noble cav?

why is shitizen cavalry so far up haha

what about misile cav

Don't think I see the Pergamenes Noble Cavalry?

What makes camel cataphracts better than the horse cataphracts?

Where are nomadic cavalry units?

Is there any mod to add icons like attila to rome 2?

thanks

Cool video

Where the steppe faction

I'm sure it's for siege

Nice

Putting camel spearmen in god tier is a mistake. I don't know what you're smoking but they are dogshit and should be put in decent at best. Even looking at them from a cost effective unit they aren't that good

Steppe lancers stronger than sarrisa?!