Art De La Guerre

[GW]

In the rule book and QRS, Heavy Cavalry is described as;
Heavy Cavalry Cv 1 3 Same as medium cavalry + armour
I assume but am not sure, that this refers to when they are shot at their Protection is 1. Is this correct?
In melee do they get the +1 to the die roll if they are losing against LH, medium cav, MI etc but not HI? This seems to be suggested on p16 of the rules.
With infantry, HI seem to be listed as having armour sometimes and other times not, Thus my confusion. Such as some Roman legionaries so it is easy to tell if they do get the +1.

GW

[footslogger]

I found that a little confusing at first myself. The protection ratings in the QRS for mounted take armor as a given: medium cav have none, heavy cav have armor, cataphracts have heavy armor.

Foot may or may not have armor, so the protection ratings reflect an unarmored target by default. Some medium infantry have armor, most do not, for example. So they have a protection of 1 by default and if they have armor then their protection is 2.

So heavy cav will have a benefit when losing in melee against infantry that have not been described as having armor.

[Hazelbark]

HC always has Armor. Protection rating of 1.

HI may or may not have armor.

[lionelrus]

[Black Prince]

I thought armour ability is always added in except for knights. So hvy cav have protection 1 +1 for armour a total of +2 when shot at?

[ethan]

No HC protection against shooting is +1, Heavily armored knights is +2.

If you did it the other way HC jump two levels of protection over MC...

[ethan]

Worth noting that mounted are similar to the way "Foot Knights" are listed. Foot knights aren't really different than H Sw, they are just Heavy Swordsmen with heavy armor and 2HW. Otherwise it would imply that Foot knights are +5 versus shooting...