Techs

Hi,
I was just wondering, what techs should you upgrade for a cav army?

Marching tech, as far as i know speed is greatest need for cav army other than that i guess the normal Attack/defence, If you have got the crop tech / scouting tech to support it XD

i agree speed is by far the most important for a cav army, then i guess id go for attack as cavs already have pretty high attack. then onto crop and scouting

I heard it was best to focus on defence for a cav army????

People say go defense with cavs, but in my opinion if I was going 10k vs 10k cav I'd rather have a mega attack to kill more of their cavs, so that when it's their turn to hit me they hit with less cavs cuz I killed more than I would with defense...

It's like using high attack for defense

Speed is always paramount with cavs and then I prefer high defense as they need to absorb the initial blow from cats. I can understand the argument for high attack, however a higher defense allows for more of your cavs to attack on the second round. It also indirectly gains you more prestige as you will lose less cavs.

Also, rarely is there ever a cat army that is ONLY cats. Usually there are some blockers to hold up your cavs so the cats can get some extra shots in. The high defense gives you a better chance of surviving those rounds.

Marching and crop but crop should be there anyways.

Speed is a definate, but attack or defence depends on if you are using support troops for example: using cav/arch would go attack, if using only cav then defence.

Just a cavalry army would be speed + defence.
Speed because at max it enables you to rush the whole field in 2 or 3 turns. Defence because at max it saves half the cavalry that would normally be killed when the cavalry take a hit.
Usually when someone has a catapult army (like me ) they use a couple blockers (1 archer, 1 cav, sometimes inf) to hold up the cavalry. Defence would save your army whereas attack would be useless here.

Chances are if they are blocking your cav with one of each unit you won't get prestige anyway, which is why pure cav doesn't work