The Mounted Warrior is the Iron Age upgrade of the Horseman. It is produced in the Mounted Warrior Stable. In total, from the horseman, the Mounted Warrior has +1 attack and +3 defense.
It has the highest speed in the Iron Age, with the moderate attack and defense in the Iron Age. It also has bonuses against ranged units such as the Archer.
Usage[]
Like the Horseman, it is always the first unit to move and it can reach the other end of the map in two turns. This makes it also effective against artillery units as well as ranged units and should be used to rush into enemy lines and focus on these two units.
However, it is vulnerable to light units such as the Soldier, as they have combat bonuses against fast units. Thus it should avoid combat with light units. It is also rather weak against heavy units, as the heavy units often have much greater defense, meaning the Mounted Warrior will have a hard time damaging them. However, it can take on the Warrior of the previous age, as they both have similar statistics.
Against Same Age Units[]
Soldier[]
The Mounted Warrior is generally weak against the Soldier due to their bonuses against fast units. Therefore Mounted Warriors will also have a hard time trying to deal effective damage against Soldiers and the Soldier on the next turn can damage them easily and kill them in two hits.
Archer[]
The Mounted Warrior is strong against the Archer, mainly due to the Mounted Warrior's bonuses against ranged units, and can deal especially effective damage against Archers, especially as they have a very low defense. However, the Archer's very strong attack strength can still deal considerable damage to Mounted Warriors, so if you are using Mounted Warriors against Archers, you should avoid being in their range, and allow them to move forwards so you can get the first strike.
Legionnaire[]
Although neither side has bonuses against each other, the general high defense of the Legionnaire means that the Mounted Warrior cannot effectively damage them. Mounted Warriors can take on a couple Legionnaires given a moderate attack boost, but if your Mounted Warriors rush in to attack a group of Legionnaires, the Mounted Warriors will be finished somewhat easily.
Ballista[]
The very fast movement of the Mounted Warrior and the rather poor attack and defense of the Ballista generally means that the Ballista is unable to deal much damage to the Mounted Warrior, whilst the Mounted Warrior is easily able to reach the Ballista on the other side and deal a lot of damage back, often killing them in two hits.
Updates[]
The attack and the defense values of this unit have been decreased by one point in the 1.0 update.
Trivia[]
The Roman Cavalry (equites i Romani) always played an integral role within the Roman Army, from the days of the monarchy to the Imperial era. Initially, during the time of the republic, cavalry forces among the army were made up entirely of equites, a property based class within roman society that acted similarly to a knight, being active in business and warfare, although the latter military service became less and less popular and there were simply not enough of them to make up for the required numbers, many commoners of the First Class volunteered for the service as it was considered more glamorous than that of the infantry. Subsequently over the years, the republic became more and more reliant on the cavalry provided by its allied states, as these were natives with equestrian traditions who provided good quality horses and experienced riders, often fighting with all types of weapons on horseback, and also because its own citizen cavalry was simply not enough to cover all of the territory that had been adquired by the republic. After the Marian reforms (107 BC) and the subsequent rise of the empire, Roman citizen cavalry was gradually abolished and replaced by native allied cavalry, given the lack of equites (who acted as officers) and first class citizens (who were now more interested in business rather than service) to fill in the ranks. There was no shortage of second class citizen volunteers to fill the ranks of the cavalry, however, the emplied costs of the recruitment of these citizens deemed it pointless, as the expenses on allied cavalry were much cheaper. With Rome lacking its own cavalry forces to rely upon, Caesar Augustus formed a regular Auxilia corps of non-roman citizens. These non-roman cavalry men, unlike those from allied kingdoms, were trained and paid by the Roman state and were oficially part of the roman army. They were described as being very competent and proved to be effective alongside the infantry. After the implementation of the Constitutio Antoniniana (212 AD) all cavalry forces were technically considered Roman citizen cavalry.
Gallery[]
Mounted Warrior in battle
Other Military Units[]
Legend: 
= Light Unit Class 
= Ranged Unit Class 
= Artillery Unit Class 
= Heavy Unit Class 
= Fast Unit Class