Results: I got a valuable unit at the cost of less than 600 peningas (yes, you pay around 450 peningas just a the horse which is gonna be abandoned from the start of the battle or it's gonna died to a random javelin. Personally, I have Morgh's editor and I edited the Old Captain by unchecking the 'mounted' option making them to appear without horses! Putting Old Captains to infantry squad does not help so much because they will spawn in the rear of your shield wall and they will take too much valuable time until they dismount. what I want to say on this post? Old Captains must be infantry like the rest of their troop-tree and the other four 31-lvl units. So, in VC, cavalry has the role of flanking, persuing, distracting and catching archers (no javelin skirmishers!!!) and there is no reason to waste a ton of peningas on hiring and upkeeping heavy melee cavalry and lose it to irish skirmishers when you can just recruit lots frisian horsemen from villages. So, a straight charge into enemy lines was a suicide but if you had cataphracts.In Northern Europe heavy shock cavalry made its steps in 11th century.

In 9th century, infanrty was the backbone of most of the armies and except archers, all types of infantry were equipped with spears or javelins and shields. So, why people (including also, me) do not use Old Captains? So, you can for far more easily have a high amount of Old Captains than any other 31-lvl troop. He is available to be hired in mead halls for little more than a thousand. Recruitment: Old Captain is the 5th tier of the common farmer troop-tree but he is not available through upgrading the Veteran for some reason. Yes, the Huskarl's and the Thegn's armour is little bit better but still Old Captain's armour is a good armour. Also, the shield provides a good amount of protection against projectiles.ДЄrmour: Always comes with mail shirt and helm like the other 31-lvl troops. Very effective in close quarters combat like sieges, naval battles and in shield-wall fighting. Weapons: Good quality regular sword and shield. Stats: He's one of the only five 31-level units and with the amazing 380 weapon proficiency in all weapon types (included also, for some reason, weapons that he does not use, like slings). ' Old Captain' is the best troop of the game in terms of stats, weapons, armour and recruitment.

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