Cavalry unit (Chronicles)

This article is about the cavalry units in Chronicles. For the armor class, see Armor class: Cavalry. For cavalry units in other games of the series, see cavalry.

Cavalry in Chronicles are one of the general types of military units, the others being infantry, archers, siege weapons, and ships.

Cavalry deal melee damage at melee range. Their high bulk (hit points and/or armor) as well as high mobility makes them particularly dangerous to enemy siege weapons and archers, especially foot archers, in general. Their speed can be utilised to easily dispatch enemy Villagers or Trade Carts if they can find a way into the enemy's base, thus making cavalry units highly desirable for raids. Heavy cavalry is also highly preferable in frontline combat as they can catch up to vulnerable targets and disengage from unfavorable fights easily. While better than infantry in almost every way, cavalry units are also costlier. While they can resist arrowfire from enemy defenses better, they are slower at taking down buildings. They also have large hitboxes than other non-siege unit types, which has several repurcussions in combat and pathfinding.

Mounted archers like Cavalry Archers are also considered cavalry units for the purposes of armor classes (such as bonus damage received from Spearmen), as well as effects of technologies which affect all cavalry in general, except for Blacksmith technologies, where they benefit from archer technologies instead of cavalry ones. Despite this, they are generally considered archer units instead of cavalry, hence they are not listed below.

List of cavalry units

Unit	Building	Age	Civilizations	Trait
Scout Cavalry	Stable		All	Scout unit Anti-Priestess unit
Light Cavalry			All
Raider			Achaemenids
Lancer			All
Shock Cavalry			Achaemenids Athenians
Imperial Cavalry			Achaemenids
War Chariot			Achaemenids	Deals trample damage Anti-infantry unit
Elite War Chariot

Scenario Editor

The following cavalry units are only available in the Scenario Editor:

Unit	Trait
Camel Raider	Anti-cavalry unit Camel unit
Greek Noble Cavalry	Charged attack
Scythian Axe Cavalry	Charged attack

Technologies

Listed below are all technologies that benefit cavalry units, with unique technologies marked with a yellow background. This list does not contain unit upgrades.

Technology	Researched at	Age	Civilization	Effect
Bloodlines	Stable		All	+20 hit points
Husbandry			Achaemenids Spartans	+10% speed
Forging	Blacksmith		All	+1 attack
Iron Casting			All	+1 attack
Blast Furnace			All	+2 attack
Scale Barding Armor			All	+1/+1 armor
Chain Barding Armor			All	+1/+1 armor
Plate Barding Armor			Achaemenids Spartans	+1/+2 armor
Herbal Medicine	Temple		Achaemenids Athenians	6× healing when garrisoned
Hemlock			Athenians Spartans	Die instead of getting converted
Exorcism			All	Increased conversion resistance
Conscription	Fort		All	+33% training speed
Scythed Chariots			Achaemenids	War Chariots +60% trample radius

Civilizations

The Achaemenids are the exemplar cavalry civilization. The others lack units and/or technologies, while also not having any particular bonuses or unique technologies which may benefit their cavalry. Despite this, the versatility of the Lancer results in a Classical Age Lancer rush being a viable option for all civilizations.

Availability grid

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Civilization
Achaemenids
Athenians
Spartans

Civilization bonuses

• Achaemenids: Stable technologies research 50% faster (-33% time taken).

Gallery

All cavalry units trained at the Stable