GUIDE · UNIT STRATEGY
Steppe Lancer reach-and-raid group
Steppe Lancer: Steppe Lancers use reach and speed to fight from behind the frontline in large groups or raid in smaller packs. Their movement also allows hit-and-run pressure against units that cannot force contact.
Overview
Steppe Lancer: Steppe Lancers use reach and speed to fight from behind the frontline in large groups or raid in smaller packs. Their movement also allows hit-and-run pressure against units that cannot force contact.
Plan and execution
Use a large group at a choke point where several Lancers can attack from behind one another, or split a few into a raid when the opponent’s army is elsewhere. Keep the group moving and combine it with a unit that can hold an enemy formation in place.
Risks and adaptation
Their value drops when they are surrounded or forced into a counter line. Do not trickle Lancers into a defended fight or send the group into Spearmen without a supporting answer.
- Focus
- Mobile cavalry formation
- Signature / category
- Plan and execution
- Release / context
- Age of Empires II system
- Region
- Unit strategy
- Classification
- Unit strategies