Empire: Total War 1vs1: Winged Hussars vs Pikemen

Empire: Total War 1vs1: Winged Hussars vs Pikemen Nation: Poland-Lithuania vs Austria AI Strength: normal Winged Hussars are some of the finest melee cavalry in Empire: Total War, with excellent charging and melee capabilities. Unusually for late-game cavalry, they may be used in early-game skirmish and multiplayer mode, where their dominance as mounted troops goes uncontested. Offsetting this is their high cost and their tendency to become fatigued quickly. Pikemen are available to every European faction and are present in nearly every European army at the beginning of the game. Unusually, all factions lose access to Pikemen as they upgrade their training facilities, as pikemen are only available to the lowliest magistrates. Pikemen are the only infantry that can utilize the pike wall and pike square formation, in which they level their pikes to devastating effect against charging cavalry. While in these formations, they gain a large defense bonus, and become near-invulnerable to cavalry. However, they become immobile and must break formation in order to move, during which they are vulnerable to cavalry. They are seriously limited by their inability to use firearms and their rather poor melee stats against infantry. Pikemen also cannot scale walls or enter buildings, further limiting their use in sieges and defensive battles. Early on, Pikemen do have their uses as supplemental melee infantry should regular line infantry and militia require assistance. However, they soon...