5. Make any lance hit deadly for the victim. Because that's realistic.
Sorry, but your suggestion is simply bad from the gameplay point of view.
Cavalry build.
It is expensive. It is hard. And it can be extremely frustrating.
Make lances destructible when riding on a horse.
No, because a horse build is extremely expensive already
Give Horses stamina - You can dig deeper with this, maybe only when turning with the horse.
No. They already have two major weaknesses:
1. they´re big (great target for enemy ranged units)
2. They rear. They rear A LOT. Bee collides with your horses ear? Rear. Enemy farts and the fart cloud gets into the horses way? Rear. You ride 2 mph slow against a small branch? Rear. Why do you think are people barely using light horses? Because rearing with a light horse mostly means death.
Limit the amount of Cavs on each team, maybe make it a 1:1 ratio or even a counter build ratio(1 cav : 1 archer/thrower etc).
No. Cav aren´t the only things that counter cav. Polearms, ranged and throwers do that too.
Enough of my "no"s now. Now comes the important part:
"Walk in the boots of your enemies if you want to understand them."
I highly suggest you to make yourself a horse build and try it out for 1,2 gens. Playing cav isn´t as frontal as it used to be (and as it actually was in reality), thanks to plenty of nerfs, cav players (except ranged cav of course[cunts]) HAVE to play sneaky. Attacking the enemy when they don´t expect it and dealing fast strikes is actually the only thing left for them to do. Ever seen a cav with heavy lance/1h directly charging an enemy from the front? No, the range will mostly not be enough; even with a heavy lance it´s really difficult to outrange some guy with a 2h sword, and they mostly will move just right so you won´t be able to hit them.
Yeh, i knoow, great lances are longer and of course mostly charge directly, but they´re really easy to avoid if you know how to move. (also, you may not be able to block a couch attack, but you can chamber it if you practice that a bit)
How to deal with cav then? Golden rule: Perception
Since backstabbing and quick strikes from behind is mostly the only thing left for them to do, a short look around with your ^-key (or whereever you put the free-view cam) can save your life and take a cav´s life in 75% of the moments. Also, listen to hoofsteps, even if you think that it´s your ally, turn around to do an extra check. Especially at the beginning of a round, people don´t expect a cav attack from behind cause "horses can´t be at spawn that fast, nah?". Sure they can.
Pissed with cav? Grab a pike (you don´t even have to have wpf for that) and just watch your teams back (especially archers, who can sorta be magnets for enemy cav). Become a ranged class and stay close to trees, buildings, other pikers. Or just have perception.
So please don´t be surprised why you´re getting so many downvotes, cav isn´t an easy class and it can be easily countered (although people keep forgetting their surroundings and keep paying no attention).
Try a cav build and see for yourself! :)
EDIT: Just read that you have a cav alt. What class? What build? How long have you played yet? Cav topping the scoreboard because people don´t pay attention and those cav mostly have heavy horses, but remember: you don´t want to pay that guys upkeep.
Cavalry build.
It is expensive. It is hard. And it can be extremely frustrating.
Make lances destructible when riding on a horse.
No, because a horse build is extremely expensive
Give Horses stamina - You can dig deeper with this, maybe only when turning with the horse.
No. They already have two major weaknesses:
1. they´re big (great target for enemy ranged units)
2. They rear. They rear A LOT. Bee collides with your horses ear? Rear. Enemy farts and the fart cloud gets into the horses way? Rear. You ride 2 mph slow against a small branch? Rear. Why do you think are people barely using light horses? Because rearing with a light horse mostly means death.
Limit the amount of Cavs on each team, maybe make it a 1:1 ratio or even a counter build ratio(1 cav : 1 archer/thrower etc).
No. Cav aren´t the only things that counter cav. Polearms, ranged and throwers do that too.
Enough of my "no"s now. Now comes the important part:
"Walk in the boots of your enemies if you want to understand them."
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I highly suggest you to make yourself a horse build and try it out for 1,2 gens. Playing cav isn´t as frontal as it used to be (and as it actually was in reality), thanks to plenty of nerfs, cav players (except ranged cav of course[cunts]) HAVE to play sneaky. Attacking the enemy when they don´t expect it and dealing fast strikes is actually the only thing left for them to do. Ever seen a cav with heavy lance/1h directly charging an enemy from the front? No, the range will mostly not be enough; even with a heavy lance it´s really difficult to outrange some guy with a 2h sword, and they mostly will move just right so you won´t be able to hit them.
Yeh, great lances are longer, but really easy to avoid if you know how to move. (also, you may not be able to block a couch attack, but you can chamber it if you practice that a bit)
How to deal with cav then? Golden rule: Perception
Since backstabbing and quick strikes from behind is mostly the only thing left for them to do, a short look around with your ^-key (or whereever you put the free-view cam) can save your life and take a cav´s life in 75% of the moments. Also, listen to hoofsteps, even if you think that it´s your ally, turn around to do an extra check. Especially at the beginning of a round, people don´t expect a cav attack from behind cause "horses can´t be at spawn that fast, nah?". Sure they can.
Pissed with cav? Grab a pike (you don´t even have to have wpf for that) and just watch your teams back (especially archers, who can sorta be magnets for enemy cav). Become a ranged class and stay close to trees, buildings, other pikers. Or just have perception.
So please don´t be surprised why you have so many downvotes, cav isn´t an easy class and it can be easily countered (although people keep forgetting their surroundings and keep paying no attention).
Try a cav build and see for yourself! :)
Byzantium clan, all of you seem extremely biased on this. Obviously you guys play cav alot...