[PhilD]

Originally posted by Yhan Yhan:
Yeah, i have the demo for Dominions 2. So I figured out w\how to play. So I built a decent army of 50 heavy calvary and 30 or some crossbowmen. I attack with this army an indepentdant nation with about 20 light infantry. My archers went in for the 1st wave of attack. That killed 3 or 4 light infantry. My heavy calvary charged and killed a good 10 more light infantry. Then all of my heavy calvary ran away from the battle. The few remaining light infantry scared my archers away. I lost the battle. How is this possible? 80 good against 30 crap lose? WTF?

Help!

I noticed that Heavy Cavalry tend to rout very easily. I don't know whether this is for poor morale, or because some obscure mechanism makes them lose morale quickly, but I think they don't work as your only shock troops; they don't cause enough demoralization to make the opposition rout.

Maybe try to have other heavy troops (Heavy Infantry) charge right behind the Cav, to share the burden of breaking the opposition? Still, if your Cav rout, you'll have to pick the remnants up in various provinces...