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 larger hitboxes than other non-siege land unit types, which has several repercussions for 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

Unique units are marked with a yellow background and regional units with an orange background.

Unit	Building	Age	Civilizations	Trait
Scout Cavalry	Stable		All	Scout unit Anti-Priestess unit
Light Cavalry			All
Raider			Achaemenids Puru Thracians
Lancer			All
Shock Cavalry			All except Spartans
Imperial Cavalry			Achaemenids Macedonians
War Chariot			Achaemenids	Deals trample damage Anti-infantry unit
Elite War Chariot
Companion Cavalry	Fort		Macedonians	Anti-unique unit unit
Elite Companion Cavalry
Sannāhya	Stable		Puru	Deals trample damage Occupies 2 population slots
Elite Sannāhya
Armored Elephant	Siege Workshop			Anti-building unit Replaces rams
Siege Elephant

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 except Puru	+20 hit points
Husbandry			All except Athenians and Thracians	+10% speed
Forging	Blacksmith		All	+1 attack
Iron Casting			All	+1 attack
Blast Furnace			All except Thracians	+2 attack
Scale Barding Armor			All except Macedonians	+1/+1 armor
Chain Barding Armor			All except Macedonians	+1/+1 armor
Plate Barding Armor			All except Athenians and Macedonians	+1/+2 armor
Herbal Medicine	Temple		All except Spartans	6× healing when garrisoned
Hemlock			Athenians Spartans Thracians	Die instead of getting converted
Exorcism			All except Thracians	Increased conversion resistance
Conscription	Fort		All	+33% training speed
Scythed Chariots			Achaemenids	War Chariots +60% trample radius
Sagaris				Melee cavalry deals +2 unblockable damage to units
Sarissophoroi			Macedonians	Companion Cavlary gain a charged attack
Vadhāvadha			Puru	Sannāhya +0.15 trample radius, +1 trample damage

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. The Macedonians are also an excellent cavalry civilization, as they can fully upgrade their heavy cavalry, gain a potential timing advantage due to their bonus of cavalry benefiting from infantry armor upgrades, and have the Companion Cavalry which serve as fast-moving medium shock troops.

Availability grid

	= Available
	= Unavailable
	= Researched for free or fully covered by a civilization bonus if unavailable

Civilization
Achaemenids
Athenians
Macedonians
Puru
Spartans
Thracians

Civilization bonuses

• Achaemenids: Stable technologies research 50% faster (-33% time taken).
• Macedonians: Cavalry units benefit from infantry armor upgrades. Recruitment Doctrines are available at the Stable.
• Puru: Cavalry units heal 25 hit points per minute when no enemy units are within 10 tiles radius, starting in the Classical Age.

Gallery

All generic and regional cavalry units trained at the Stable