Numidian cavalry IMPLEMENTED

[Badnorth]

Numidian cavalry was a type of light cavalry developed by the Numidians. After they were used by Hannibal during the Second Punic War, they were described by the Roman historian Livy as "by far the best horsemen in Africa.

The Numidian cavalry's horses, ancestors of the Berber horse, were small compared to other horses of the era, and were well adapted for faster movement over long distances.Numidian horsemen rode without saddles or bridles, controlling their mounts with a simple rope around their horse's neck and a small riding stick. They had no form of bodily protection except for a round leather shield or a leopard skin, and their main weapon were javelins in addition to a short sword.

Due to their expert horsemanship and agility, as well as their lack of armor or heavy weaponry, they were most suitable for harassing tactics, charging in loose formation and lobbing their javelins before wheeling off to escape the enemy's counterattack. This harassing tactic, while rarely decisive, could be extremely frustrating to a less mobile enemy, as experienced by Julius Caesar's soldiers during the latter's invasion of Africa. At the same time they were generally unable to stand their ground against heavier types of cavalry. In one incident during the aforementioned African invasion thirty of Caesar's Gallic horsemen drove off a much larger force of Moorish cavalry, while in another a squadron of Caesar's heavy Iberian horsemen routed a large body of Labienus's Numidians, while his Gallic and Germanic horsemen stood their ground.

[Badnorth]

Cost:3
Hp: 19
Att: 5
Spd: 6
Rng: 3
Armor: 0/1
Sight: 5
SR
Bonuses:
75% light infantry

Some starter stats.
A ranged light cavalry

[SirPat]

I saw an ad about this the other day

[L4cus]

i think stats should be:

cost 3
hp 15
attack 4
range 3
armour 0/2
speed 6
sight 7
+50% vs archers
+100% vs mounted, mounted archers
+300% elephant archers
+450% vs elephant not archer

basicaly a skirmisher horseman with better capabilities against mounted units:
i read that these men used to fight against enemy's cavalry defeating them and surrounding the enemy front line (happened to rome army during the 2nd punic war)...

[L4cus]

Numidian cavalry based on dejade's equites image...(just chamged cloth and hair of the knight...

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[L4cus]

[DreJaDe]

A light cavalry with a stat of ordinary light cav but have a javelin throw ability. The bonus against or in favor of the unit is also the same as light cav.

Cost would be 4 while it can only be trained in stables.

[Endru1241]

I belive both exists as separate topics already.

[DreJaDe]

Just saw it.

Still have the same suggestion though.

The Jinete is accepted but the Numidian is not.
I don't know how to continue with the suggestion besides that. Should I go there and re suggest.

[Endru1241]

Merged to remove dilemma.

[L4cus]

wait, is the numidian cavalry sprite i made good enought for implementation?

[Endru1241]

I made few changes.

[L4cus]

what about stats? are they good?

cost 3
hp 15
attack 4
range 3
armour 0/2
speed 6
sight 7
+50% vs archers
+100% vs mounted, mounted archers
+300% elephant archers
+450% vs elephant not archer

basicaly a skirmisher horseman with better capabilities against mounted units:
i read that these men used to fight against enemy's cavalry defeating them and surrounding the enemy front line (happened to rome army during the 2nd punic war)...