The Heavy Cavalry is the fast unit of the Early Middle Ages. It is trained in the Heavy Cavalry Stable.
Compared to the Mounted Warrior of the previous age, the Heavy Cavalry improves by 3 attack and 5 defense points as well as increased bonuses against ranged units.
Usage[]
Like previous fast units, the Heavy Cavalry should be used to take out ranged and artillery units and should avoid combat with light units due to their combat bonuses against fast units and heavy units, due to their tanky defense, limiting their effectiveness against them.
Against Same Age Units[]
Mercenary[]
Like previous ages, the Mercenary's bonuses against fast units make the Heavy Cavalry weak against the Mercenary, and the Heavy Cavalry is unable to deal significant damage to the Mercenary whilst they will receive more damage back.
Mounted Archer[]
Although the Mounted Archer now has equal movement speed with the Heavy Cavalry, but with added range as well, and also being able to strike them on the first turn, the under-average attack and defense of Mounted Archers in EMA and the bonuses Heavy Cavalry have against ranged units makes the Heavy Cavalry very strong against the Mounted Archer, and they are the best counter to the Mounted Archer.
Armored Infantry[]
Similar to previous ages, the Armored Infantry's high defense usually means that the Heavy Cavalry is unable to deal much damage to the Armored Infantry, whilst the Armored Infantry can often kill the Heavy Cavalry in two hits, making the fight less favorable for the Heavy Cavalry.
Catapult[]
The Heavy Cavalry is very strong against the Catapult, as the Heavy Cavalry has very fast movement and much greater attack and defense, especially as the Catapult can only deal little damage against them whilst the Heavy Cavalry can easily take out Catapults in two hit.
History and Trivia[]
When the stirrup was invented, it made cavalry much more important, because with stirrups, cavalry was much harder to knock down and thus had much more durability.
In Forge of Empires, when the Heavy Cavalry dies, the Cavalryman's spear will hit the Horse's head as they fall backwards, whilst the Cavalryman will disappear
Gallery[]
The death of a Heavy Cavalry.
Heavy Cavalry in battle
Other Military Units[]
Legend: 
= Light Unit Class 
= Ranged Unit Class 
= Artillery Unit Class 
= Heavy Unit Class 
= Fast Unit Class