hrotha 说:
I'm a pretty terrible cav player but I've tried that slow down, turn right, slash thing with heavy cavalry and it works perfectly well. I imagine if I kept practicing I could become a pretty proficient infantry killer even if they're aware of me.
No, I am sorry, if you slow down you only take less damage, no way to outreach (and I believe you can't even outreach swords infantry) a decent, below average infantry player, you can't dodge bayonet and then close in, bayonet chambering speed is fast than your horse. If he has a clue of bayonet range cavalry hasn't got the slightest chance to attack a bayonet musketman and surivive with no damage, while bayonet player can easily block dodge, spam stab etc. I've tested this immensely (both as cavalry and infantry), I even tried to keep the horse so close to the enemy that he couldn't attack because of 0 range. No way, bayonet spinstab and upperstab annihilate swordscavalry so easily.
You can kill infantry, when you come from behind in a forrest map, (open maps don't work for cavalry), when they have the name New_Player and noobs in general, that's it.
There is a point (pretty damn soon) with heavy cavalry where your skill becomes irrilevant, you ain't gonna win 1 on 1 against bayonets, you simply can't avoid taking damage, horse can't be blocked, and even if you get a successful block you don't have the reach/speed/manouvre to counterstrike, bayonet never whiffs unless it starts animation basically into the horse 3d model and doesn't backpeddle.
No way in hell you can be better than infantry in this game, no matter how good you can block, feint, move your horse, if you fight a battle where you're outreached and can always take damage (horse can't be blocked) you lose. With infantry it's a matter of skill, cavalry vs infantry, infantry wins.