The corners of Lei Zihao's mouth twitched, this heavy cavalry is absolutely useless for him now......

The maintenance cost of the cavalry is much higher than that of the infantry, and the recruitment cost is still 10,000 gold coins, and Lei Zihao can't afford to sell Li Qingmei!

Hey? Why use Li Qingmei as a metaphor?

Don't care about such trivial details, Lei Zihao decisively gave up thinking about it after confirming that the heavy cavalry was just an 'ornament', and moved his eyes to the next cavalry class. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Archers who look very tall!

It's just that this archer seems to be the lowest type in the history of the earth......

[Class: Cavalry archers.]

Equipment: Leather hat and leather armor, standard combat skirt and combat boots, a set of ordinary riding bows and arrows, and a scimitar for elite iron cavalry.

Soldier size: Standard 1,000 troops.

Specialty: Mounted archery

Combat effectiveness assessment: far more than the infantry mobility is their biggest advantage, although the range of the riding bow is worse than the foot bow, but used to deal with the fixed enemy infantry phalanx with difficult turning, the effect is still very good, they are good at bow and arrow equestrian skills, but the discipline is very poor, please pay attention to this defect!

Morale: Eight stars

Recruitment cost (5,000 gold coins), maintenance cost (food, clothing, and horse raising cost).

Outstanding ability: strong mobility.

Notes: They are a bunch of loyal and savage herdsmen! They may be fierce, but don't expect you to train them to be forbidden, they are highly motivated simply because they love to kill and plunder......

This is just a transitional class, in order to make up for the gap in your long-range projection mobile troops, if there are no special needs, it is recommended to forget it, after all, their gold costs are not cheap at all, and the cavalry has always been a class that only local tyrants can afford, if you don't have rich money, don't be too obsessed with the huge cavalry corps, unless you become a nomadic kind of organization that all the people are soldiers! 】

5000 gold ......

Lei Zihao suddenly felt that he was good......

Not to mention the defect of poor discipline of the archers, this cost alone can make Lei Zihao retreat......

It's just that Lei Zihao doesn't understand a little, the lancer is only 2,000 gold coins, and the equipment morale of this heavy cavalry crushes the lancers, even if the price is high, but for Mao, an ordinary herdsman archer who doesn't even have a pair of iron armor, needs a full 5,000 gold coins!

This special meow is unscientific!

Isn't it true that gold increases according to combat power?

"Total war system, why are the archer so weakly equipped, so poorly disciplined, but so much more expensive than the lancers?

What exactly is this criterion? “

[Your Majesty, the cost of gold coins is increased according to the advantages and combat effectiveness of the troops, the advantage of the troops is the gap between the cavalry and the infantry, everyone knows that the infantry may not be able to defeat the cavalry, there are often examples in history of elite cavalry units being defeated by a group of ordinary spearmen, but the cost of cavalry is much higher than that of infantry!

Cavalry troops could not crush the infantry, but the cost was much higher than that of the infantry, why did the rulers of the Cold Weapon Age still tirelessly pursue the expansion of cavalry troops, collect war horses everywhere, and establish horse farms?

The reason is simple, a frontal charge of cavalry may not be able to break through a tight infantry phalanx, but their value is not simply to attack a tight infantry phalanx!

It is precisely because the battlefield role of cavalry cannot be replaced by infantry, and it is very important to win or lose, so the ruler will expand the cavalry force at a high cost!

The battlefield is never a single arm that can decide the outcome of the war, and the cooperation of multiple arms is the source of victory in the war!

That's why cavalry requires more gold than infantry, but it may not be able to beat infantry! 】

"I know this very well, system girl, I'm asking about archers and lancers, can you get to the point?"

Lei Zihao replied speechlessly.

[I'm sorry, Your Majesty, the Total War system just wanted to give you a specific explanation of the gold difference.]

The reason why the price of the archers is so much higher than that of the lancers is entirely because of the difference in combat effectiveness, the system has already evaluated, the same number of lancer troops produced in the stables against the archers troops, the victory rate is about 0%, so the combat effectiveness of the archers is stronger than the lancers, and the gold coins spent are naturally more. 】

"Percent ...... Zero...... Around?! "Lei Zihao is no longer able to complain about the calculation method of the total war system......

"You can simply say that the lancers are defeated against the archers, and you don't need to calculate it with such precision as 'zero percent'......

But!

How did the Archer outwit the Lancers? “

Lei Zihao was puzzled.

[Your Majesty, the cavalry-style light chain mail worn by the lancers is lighter than the light chain mail worn by the infantry, and the protection is naturally worse.

Although the cavalry archers did not have special armor-piercing arrows, it was not a problem to shoot through the cavalry-style light chain mail of the lancers at a distance of a dozen paces.

Although these archers are extremely poorly disciplined and unruly, their equestrian and cavalry abilities cultivated since childhood are still very good, and more light leather armor and leather hats and other clothing make the archers have better mobility than the lancers, they can use kite flying tactics to carry out all-round lossless archery attacks against the lancers who have no long-range means of attack, and the lancers can't attack the archers and can't defend against their arrows, so they naturally can't beat the archers. 】

"According to you, the heavy cavalry can't catch up with the archers, so why do the heavy cavalry need twice as much gold as the archers?"

[There are two main points in this, first, the equipment cost of heavy cavalry is high, and the second point is that although the heavy cavalry cannot defeat the cavalry archers, the cavalry archers cannot break the armor of the heavy cavalry!

The archers here are only transitional troops, using the most ordinary cavalry bows, and the armor-piercing ability is not as good as the archers' foot bows, and there are no special armor-piercing arrows, and the archers can rely on direct fire at close range to shoot through the thin armor of the lancers, but they can't use ordinary cavalry bows to shoot through the heavy cavalry's heavy chain mail!

His Majesty's infantry archers, in the defense of Meghal, shot the heavily armored foot knights of the Crusaders, and they couldn't break the defense?

The ability of cavalry archers to pierce armor with bows is not as good as that of infantry archers!

The archers could not break through the defenses, so they could not defeat the heavy cavalry, but the heavy cavalry could disperse the archers. 】

"The archers can't shoot armor, they can shoot the face and neck and other exposed positions, and the heavy cavalry is not wearing all-round protective full-body plate armor......"

[Your Majesty, the helmets of the heavy cavalry are equipped with anti-arrow masks, and a marksman of the level of a hundred paces does not exist among ordinary archers!] 】