Cantabrian Circle for all Horse Archers
This mod will bring you Cantabrian Circle ability for all Horse Archers units in the game as:
The Cantabrian circle (Latin: circulus cantabricus) was a military tactic employed by ancient and to a lesser extent medieval horse archers. As Flavius Arrianus[1] and Hadrian[2] relate, this was the most habitual form to appear in combat of the Cantabri tribes, and Rome adopted it after the Cantabrian Wars.
The tactic was usually employed against infantry and bowmen. The constant movement of the horsemen gave them an advantage against the less mobile infantry and made them harder to target by the enemy’s missile troops. The maneuver was designed to harass and taunt the enemy forces, disrupt close formations and often draw part, or all, of the enemy forces into a disorganized or premature charge. This was commonly used against enemy infantry, especially heavily armed and armored slow moving forces such as the legions of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.
The advantages of the Cantabrian circle is that the mounted archers do not have to make a perfect circle, allowing them to keep their distance from the enemy. The slower moving infantry have little to no hope of catching the mounted archers, putting them at a distinct disadvantage.
The Cantabrian circle is similar to other cavalry maneuvers such as the caracole and the Parthian shot.
- Huns & White Huns
– Avar Horde
– Hunnic Ambushers
– Hunnic Devil Archers
– Hunnic Horse Archers
– Hunnic Warlord
– Noble Horse Archers
– Steppe Horse Archers
– Steppe Mounted Bows
– Unnigarde
– Spet Xyon Archers - Alans
– Alani Horse Archers
– Alani Mounted Bows
– Grey Hair
– Cataphract Archers - Aksum
– Mounted März Archers - Eastern Roman Empire
– Equites Sagittarii - Himyar
– Zodiac Archers - Sassanid Empire
– Persian Camel Archers
– Persian Mounted Bowmen
– Zhayedan Immortal Cavalry
In my tests, units with Cantabrian Circle ability will suffer a loss of x1.26 per unit
and units without Cantabrian Circle ability(vaniila units) will suffer a bigger loss of x1.90 per unit
as you can see in one of those images
the kill ratio is x1.54 for units with Cantabrian Circle ability and only x1.25 for units without Cantabrian Circle ability becouse, more mens alive in your unit, more damage they will do to the enemy unit, but all this stats will depend on how good is that horse archer unit vs your opponent unit
But a better explanation you can see in that video made by a nice guy
Turumba TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whqwvvUUXd8
