GUIDE · UNIT STRATEGY
Boyar armored-flank plan
Boyar: Boyars combine heavy-cavalry mobility with strong melee armor, making them effective against many lighter melee units. Use that resilience to pressure a flank or hold contact while another unit line handles ranged threats.
Overview
Boyar: Boyars combine heavy-cavalry mobility with strong melee armor, making them effective against many lighter melee units. Use that resilience to pressure a flank or hold contact while another unit line handles ranged threats.
Plan and execution
Choose a route where Boyars can reach light infantry, raiders, or exposed support without crossing a concentrated spear line. Keep them grouped so they can protect one another, and use their movement to retreat from a fight where the opponent has assembled hard counters.
Risks and adaptation
Their slower movement makes them less flexible than a Knight line, and their durability does not protect them from every anti-cavalry answer. Do not charge into Spearmen or ranged focus fire simply because they withstand light melee attacks.
- Focus
- Durable heavy cavalry
- Signature / category
- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Unit strategy
- Classification
- Unit strategies