Seriously?
I've been away from my playthrough where I had loads of those guys and apparently 1.4 decided to massacre them. Reduced armor, reduced skills (assuming those matter) and maybe worse weapons as well? What gives? Was there some issue where they were outperforming other T4-6 noble units?
The way I look at it, they were the only high-tier melee cav that Aserai had in their troop tree, at all. They were the best javelin cavalry available but javelin cavalry aren't terribly common anyway and their best-case niche required moderate amounts of micro-management to get good performance out of them. They were competitive with Imperial Cataphracts and Strugian Druzhniks but not crazy dominant. In short fights, they'd certainly outperform those, but the longer the melee went on, the more likely it was that other heavy cav would catch up to the in terms of kills.
Ad visually they looked resplendent.
I've been away from my playthrough where I had loads of those guys and apparently 1.4 decided to massacre them. Reduced armor, reduced skills (assuming those matter) and maybe worse weapons as well? What gives? Was there some issue where they were outperforming other T4-6 noble units?
The way I look at it, they were the only high-tier melee cav that Aserai had in their troop tree, at all. They were the best javelin cavalry available but javelin cavalry aren't terribly common anyway and their best-case niche required moderate amounts of micro-management to get good performance out of them. They were competitive with Imperial Cataphracts and Strugian Druzhniks but not crazy dominant. In short fights, they'd certainly outperform those, but the longer the melee went on, the more likely it was that other heavy cav would catch up to the in terms of kills.
Ad visually they looked resplendent.