Dabos37
Sergeant Knight at Arms
That's not the point. Point is, that you can't expect to line your cavalry in front of the enemy, press charge and expect your knights roll over everything as was the case in Warband. Just as you can't expect to line your archers in front of the enemy, press charge and expect them to shoot everybody to bits.
Point is need to use tactics. And yes, using cavalry effectively is going to be more management intensive then using infantry. That's given character of the game, it's AI and it's controls. Cavalry is not fire and forget weapon.
Combined arms army should be better then mono army, all other things been equal. But combined army needs tactics to use it's advantage, that is, coordination of different arms. Bannerlord is far from been ideal in this respect especially given it's limited AI and morale systems, but it's by far better then Warband was in this aspect. And that includes fact that you can't just flatten everything with monoforce of whatever knights.
Btw, if you want to use your cavalry as fire and forget weapon, because you want to concentrate on other things, like fighting yourself, it's better to use sergeants take command rather then charge or advance command. It will make your cavalry (or other formation) use full AI, including the tactical one. Usually that will give better results then just charging head on and leave it at that for rest of the battle.
The problem is that even babysitting cavalry units, I think they perform worse, so why should I bother with these units? Plus this is not a strategic game, so I do not get why cavalry should be designed to be effective only if the player uses advanced tactics. Believe me, I am not interested to bring back swadian knights spam to Bannerlord, I just care about balancing and to make all kind of units useful and enjoyable.
Anyway, would you agree to show us how to use cavalry effectively if I upload this save game for you (or to someone else who thinks that cavalry worths)? I really would love that someone could prove me wrong and teach me how to use cavalry to be as useful as infantry in this battle. It is not really about challenging you, it is that I really would like to understand how to use cavalry units with advanced tactics and feel that they are useful.