Torb is a damn fine melee user who kicks everyone's ass. Of course he cleans your clock after he is dismounted. Ramses and Cyranule are two other "cav" players that I can think of who are also more dangerous on foot then mounted.
They sure are.^^ Kerrigan isn't half bad too.
EDIT:
How Fallen_Tears_of_Revelations kills cav.
Either one shot both the horse and the cav in one go by thrusting through the horse neck and into the rider's body, OR, if the cav is stopped then quickly drop the pike and do a low left to right swing with the poleaxe sweeping towards the feet of the horse and killing it. Proceed to then do an overhead or right to left swing on the helpless rider sprawling on the ground. Type out "GET FUCKED" in chat.
Valid way. But when you're facing too many cavs, you don't really want to drop your long spear/pike.
After all comments, i agree to several points. Cav is not that much overpowered. But the fact that there's more and more of them, and that autobalance don't take them in account, thus one team sometimes having 5 times as more as the other, makes it really more difficult.
Playing a cav is really fun. No need to elaborate that.
Playing a pikeman is... well... a bit... tense. Very satisfying when you protect well your archer, kill by yourself one or two cav. But else, it's really you, waiting for cavs mistake. In a defending attitude. Not the kind of agressive gameplay.
To all people saying "be usefull, protect an archer", "stop whining, you're doing it wrong", "stop crying", etc... I was having fun, playing with a fellow pikeman, protecting only one archer with his help. I don't cry about cavs, i made a polearm just to deal with them. But apart from being the "best" class at the moment, the most dangerous one, imo, it's frustrating to see them benefiting from some strange glitches.
Yes, the "horseman blocked the hit going for his horse" doesn't happen very often. But when it happens, it makes you mad. Especially when "a good cav making a mistake" doesn't happen very often either. So when this good cav finally makes an error, and he manage to block your thrust going for the horse head (let's face it, if you stab it in the legs, the horse has chances to still be able to run away), then you can be very disapointed.
To most, thanks for the usefull feedback. I always bring a poleaxe/long spear on all battle maps nowadays, but it seems like... a lot of polearm character, ex-pikeman/poleaxe user, just put 5 points in riding instead of ironflesh and go cav. Since it's really more fun being on the agressive side. And you don't really upkeep that more, just drop your heavy armor and take a medium one. And you have money anyway.
Cav is really not enough "dedicated" for the many advantages it has. One way the devs thought to counter it was putting 3 agi for the riding skill, instead of 6, and it only made cav benefit more from the riding skill that didn't change. So yes, they all lost 3 IF, and gained faster horse, more maneuver, more acceleration. Damn.
All infantry, unite ! It's very easy as cavalry to play together (just go flanking the same way, after waiting 40sec for the infantry to move), whereas it's difficult for us infantry to protect the all group, that can spread like a snake heading to one direction (special dedicace to shogunate's vid. George the tank engine rules). So the solution ? All buy pikes ? Have twice as many pikemen than ennemy cav ? Or the easiest one so far, go cav, and watch with fun as you trample infantry and hear their plees for a chance against them.
