total war rise of empire

Chapter 131 The Reason for the Difference in Gold Coins

The corner of Lei Zihao's mouth twitched, this heavy cavalry was absolutely useless to him now...

The maintenance cost of the cavalry was much higher than that of the infantry, and the recruitment cost was still [-] gold coins. Lei Zihao couldn't even afford to sell Li Qingmei!

Huh?Why use Li Qingmei as a metaphor?

Don't pay attention to such insignificant details. After confirming that the heavy cavalry is just an "appreciation", Lei Zihao resolutely gave up thinking about it and moved his attention to the next cavalry unit.

Looks like a very tall horse archer!

However, this cavalry archer seems to be the lowest type in the history of the earth...

[Arms: Archer Cavalry

Equipment: leather hat and leather armor, standard battle skirt and boots, a set of ordinary cavalry bows and arrows, and a scimitar for fine iron cavalry.

Soldier size: Standard [-]-man team.

Skills: Riding and Archery

Combat effectiveness evaluation: Their greatest advantage is their maneuverability far exceeding that of infantry. Although the shooting range of cavalry bows is not as good as that of infantry bows, it is still very effective when used to deal with fixed enemy infantry phalanxes that are difficult to turn. They use Bow and arrow horsemanship is superb, but discipline is poor, please pay attention to this defect!
Morale: [-] stars

Recruitment cost (5000 gold coins), maintenance cost (food, clothing and horse raising costs).

Outstanding abilities: Strong mobility.

Note: They are a group of herdsmen who are loyal and brutal in fighting!Maybe they like to fight fiercely, but don't expect you to train them into elite soldiers who obey orders and prohibitions. Their morale is high just because they like killing and plundering...

This is just a transitional unit. In order to make up for your gap in long-range projection of mobile units, if there is no special need, it is recommended to forget it. After all, their gold coins are not cheap at all. Cavalry has always been played by local tyrants. Affordable arms, if you don't have rich money, don't be too obsessed with the huge cavalry regiment, unless you become a nomadic organization where all the people are soldiers! 】

5000 gold coins...

Lei Zihao suddenly felt that he was in a good position...

Leaving aside the lack of discipline of cavalry archers, this cost alone can make Lei Zihao retreat three feet...

However, Lei Zihao didn't understand one thing. Lancers only cost 2000 gold coins. The equipment and morale of this heavy cavalry crushed the Lancers. A whole 5000 gold coins!
This is so unscientific!

Isn't the gold coin increased according to the combat power?

"In the total war system, why is the cavalry archer so weak in equipment and discipline so poor, but the price is so much higher than that of the lancer?
What kind of judging criteria is this? "

[Your Majesty, the cost of gold coins is added according to the advantages and combat effectiveness of the arms. The advantage of the arms lies in the gap between cavalry and infantry. Everyone knows that infantry may not be inferior to cavalry. There are often elite cavalry units in history. Example of being defeated by a normal group of spearmen, but cavalry cost far more than infantry!
The cavalry unit cannot crush the infantry, but the cost is much higher than that of the infantry. Why did the rulers of the cold weapon era tirelessly pursue the expansion of the cavalry unit, collect war horses everywhere, and establish horse farms?
The reason is very simple. The cavalry may not be able to break through the tight infantry phalanx in a frontal charge, but their value is not simply used to attack the tight infantry phalanx!

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

The battlefield has never been determined by a single arm, and the cooperation of multiple arms is the source of victory in war!

This is why cavalry requires more gold resources than infantry, but they may not be able to beat infantry! 】

"I know this very well. System girl, I'm asking about archers and lancers. Can you explain the key points?"

Lei Zihao replied speechlessly.

[Sorry, Your Majesty, the total war system just wants to explain the difference of gold coins to you in detail.

The reason why cavalry archers are so much more expensive than cavalry cavalry is entirely due to the difference in combat effectiveness. The system has already evaluated that the same number of cavalry cavalry produced in the stables will have a winning rate of about 0% against cavalry archers. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of cavalry archers It is stronger than the Lancers, so it naturally costs more gold coins. 】

"About... zero percent?!" Lei Zihao could no longer complain about the calculation method of the total war system...

"You can simply say that the Lancers were completely defeated by the Archers, and you don't need to calculate it with such an accuracy of 'zero percent'...

but!

How did the cavalry archers defeat 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 bows of the cavalry do not have specialized armor-piercing arrows, it is still not a problem to shoot through the cavalry-style light chain armor of the lancers within a distance of more than ten steps.

Although these archers are extremely poorly disciplined and rebellious, their horsemanship and riding and shooting abilities developed since childhood are still very good. Moreover, the lighter leather armor and leather hats make the archers have better abilities than the lancers. With their mobility, they can completely use kite-flying tactics to carry out all-round non-destructive archery attacks against the lancers who have no long-range attack methods. The lancers cannot attack the cavalry and cannot defend against their arrows. Naturally, they cannot defeat the cavalry. . 】

"According to what you said, heavy cavalry can't catch up with archers. Why do heavy cavalry need twice as much gold as archers?"

[There are two main points here. First, the equipment cost of heavy cavalry is high. The second point is that although heavy cavalry cannot defeat cavalry archers, cavalry archers cannot break the armor of heavy cavalry either!

The cavalry archers here are just a transitional type of arms. They all use the most common cavalry bows. The armor-piercing ability is not as good as that of the archers. There is no special armor-piercing arrow. The cavalry archers can rely on close-range direct shots to shoot through the cavalry. The armor is thin, but it can't shoot through the heavy chain armor on the heavy cavalry with an ordinary cavalry bow!
His Majesty's infantry archers, in the defensive battle of Megara, shot the Crusaders' heavy armored foot knights, couldn't they break the defense?

The armor-piercing ability of cavalry archers is not as good as that of infantry archers!
Archers can't break through the defense, so naturally they can't defeat heavy cavalry, but heavy cavalry can disperse archers. 】

"Cavalry archers can't shoot at armor, they can shoot at exposed places such as the face and neck. Heavy cavalry don't wear full-body plate armor for all-round protection..."

[Your Majesty, heavy cavalry helmets have arrow-proof masks, and marksmen with the level of a hundred-step piercer do not exist among ordinary cavalrymen! 】

(End of this chapter)