This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close. Demi Lancers are representative of the trend in the latter medieval period of reducing the amount of overall armour, while improving the remaining armour to protect vital areas. The unit moves into a wedge-shaped attack formation.įatigue has less of an effect on this unit. Caught up in sea combat, they suffer various penalties. Despite her stunning victory, Mavia's glory seems to have lived and died with the war as, after peace was brokered, there is little recorded about the rest of her life.Īs these men are inexperienced sailors. In the end Valens capitulated, granting Mavia her demand and naming Moses bishop to the Tanukhid people. Mavia's army bested the Romans in open battle on several occasions, and mercilessly butchered those in its way. As the Tanukhids had no central base of operations, the Romans found it difficult to combat their tactics - appearing as they did to be everywhere and nowhere all at once. She often rode at the head of her armies and struck fast into Roman territory, anticipating Imperial tactics and remaining fluid. Her reasons seem to be religious - Emperor Valens sought to supplant the Tanukhid's Orthodox Christianity with his own brand of Arianism, and so Mavia went to war. In AD378, three years after the death of her husband, peace dissolved and Mavia began a large offensive campaign against the Romans. Indeed, Mavia is considered by most sources a 'warrior queen', indicating she was recognised primarily by her military deeds which, unusually for the time, made her gender irrelevant. They are best used attacking enemy forces from the flank or rear, and quickly pulling away from targets that do not break.Mavia, Queen of the Tanukhids, was relatively unknown to history until her legendary revolution against the Roman Empire, succeeding where Zenobia of Palmyra failed 100 years before. Like most lancer cavalry, however, they have inferior melee and defense statistics, making them vulnerable if bogged down in melee fighting. While they aren't as good as Austrian or French lancers, they are serviceable and their charge is deadly. They are slightly inferior to Brandenburg Uhlans and Towarczys, but they are cheaper and may be recruited in an unlimited number. Lancers are the standard lancer cavalry for Prussia and Poland.
In India the lance had long been used as a weapon: lancer skills were often practiced by “pegging”, picking tent pegs out of the ground with the lance tip, or “pig-sticking”, the hunting of wild pigs or even wild dogs with the lance.
The French army adopted lancers with some enthusiasm, and Napoleon even included Polish lancers in his Imperial Guard. A long lance is less use in a melee than a sword, and a lancer is at a disadvantage once the close fighting starts, especially against well-trained infantry capable of forming square. However, if the lancer does not kill his target, he leaves himself vulnerable. When coupled with the fast pace of their horses, a lancer’s charge is very intimidating. A lance that can, in skilled hands, be driven right through any enemy. It gives the user a chance to put all his weight and that of his charging horse into one very sharp point. The lance is probably among the oldest of cavalry weapons. These cavalrymen are each armed with a lance, which make them particularly deadly when charging. Lancers are a type of lancer cavalry in Napoleon: Total War.
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