Heavy Cavalry

Currently, the MBT Mk3 is the highest level Heavy Calvary unit in the game.

“These heavily-armored units will attack defensive buildings, distracting them at close range while your other troops do the damage.”

Heavy Cavalry is the fourth type of Troop players can use in the game DomiNations. They're excellent for taking damage from defenses and they have a lot of health. They're unlocked in the Iron Age.

General Information

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The Horseman is the first level of standard Heavy Cavalry available to the player. They're unlocked in the Iron Age.

The standard Heavy Cavalry's default behavior is to seek and destroy defenses. With a large amount of hitpoints, they can endure more than any other troop of their Age, as well as dealing a lot of damage before falling. However, their disadvantages is that they have low damage and can be killed easily by Anti-Heavy Cavalry Towers such as Ballista Towers, Cannon Towers, and Anti-Tank Guns and that they can only deal 30% of their regular damage against resource buildings.

The French unique Heavy Cavalry unit have 15% more damage and 20% more hitpoints than the standard Heavy Cavalry.

From the v3.0 update, The Greek unique Heavy Cavalry unit increased additional damage to 25% (previously 20%) and reduced additional HP to 10% (previously 15%). The data in the table has been modified.

Statistics

Default

Name	Age Unlocked	HP	DPS	Range	Troop Space	Cost	Upgrade Cost	Upgrade Time	Experience Gain
Horseman	Iron Age	3,000	80	Melee	6	500	55,000	4h	195
Cataphract	Classical Age	3,600	90			900	210,000	12h	355
Knight	Medieval Age	4,560	110			1,400	700,000	1d	520
Lancer	Gunpowder Age	5,940	130			2,000	2,800,000	2d	760
Cuirassier	Enlightenment Age	6,480	140			3,000	5,800,000	4d	1,115
Tank	Industrial Age	11,000	270	3	10	6,000	7,000.000	8d	1,630
Medium Tank	Global Age	13,200	320			7,400	8,500,000	10d	1,845
Battle Tank		14,500	352			9,000	8,750,000
Main Battle Tank	Atomic Age	20,016	465			10,500	10,000,000	12d	2,040
MBT Mk2	Cold War Age	21,217	493			12,400	14,700,000	13d	2,130
MBT Mk3	Space Age	22,214	518			14,260	16,400,000	14d	2,130

French

Name	Age Unlocked	HP	DPS	Range	Troop Space	Cost	Upgrade Cost	Upgrade Time	Experience Gain
Chevalier	Iron Age	3,600	92	Melee	6	500	55,000	4h	195
Heavy Chevalier	Classical Age	4,350	104			900	210,000	12h	355
Elite Chevalier	Medieval Age	5,500	128			1,400	700,000	1d	520
Guard Chevalier	Gunpowder Age	7,150	150			2,000	2,800,000	2d	760
Hussar	Enlightenment Age	7,800	162			3,000	5,800,000	4d	1,115
St. Chamond	Industrial Age	13,200	311	3	10	6,000	7,000,000	8d	1,630
R-35 Tank	Global Age	15,840	368			7,400	8,500,000	10d	1,845
S-35 Tank		17,400	405			9,000	8,750,000
ARL-44 Tank	Atomic Age	24,019	535			10,500	10,000,000	12d	2,040
AMX-13 Tank	Cold War Age	25,460	567			12,400	14,700,000	13d	2,130

Greeks

Name	Age Unlocked	HP	DPS	Range	Troop Space	Cost	Upgrade Cost	Upgrade Time	Experience Gain
Companion	Iron Age	3,300	100	Melee	6	500	55,000	4h	195
Royal Companion	Classical Age	3,960	113			900	210,000	12h	355
Heavy Royal Companion	Medieval Age	5,016	138			1,400	700,000	1d	520
Elite Royal Companion	Gunpowder Age	6,534	163			2,000	2,800,000	2d	760
Stradioti	Enlightenment Age	7,128	175			3,000	5,800,000	4d	1,115
Companion Tank	Industrial Age	12,100	338	3	10	6,000	7,000,000	8d	1,630
ELAS Tank	Global Age	14,520	400			7,400	8,500,000	10d	1,845
Hellenic Tank		15,950	440			9,000	8,750,000
Centaur Tank	Atomic Age	22,018	581			10,500	10,000,000	12d	2,040
Leopard-Panzer	Cold War Age	23,339	616	3	10	12,400	14,700,000	13d	2,130

Attacking Strategies

• Heavy Cavalry have a lot of health but are slow and have low attack power, so use them in groups.
• Heavy Cavalry are weak against many defenses grouped together.
• When pushing for trophies, you would need to destroy the Town Center. In many bases, the Town Center is in the center of the base. First, train up an army of Heavy Cavalry and a Wall Breacher. When attacking, deploy your Veteran Wall Sapper and wait till it destroys the necessary Walls. Then, deploy all your Heavy Cavalry in the areas which the Town Center closest to. If there are a few defenses blocking the way, destroy them. Then rally your Heavy Cavalry to destroy the Town Center.
• Heavy Cavalry ignore defensive troops and pursue their targets, which are defensive buildings. However, if a defensive troop attacks the Heavy Cavalry, the Heavy Cavalry will attack back until the defensive troop is killed; thus making the Heavy Cavalry distracted. Try to use and deploy Ranged Infantry or Heavy Infantry after deploying the Heavy Cavalry to eliminate the defensive troops.
• When fighting on defense, they have high advantages over range infantries and siege weapons but are slightly weaker when facing a heavy infantry

Defensive Strategies

• Heavy Cavalry are a good alliance troop due to their high hitpoints, making them tougher to defeat.
• The Reinforcements technology in the Library spawns Heavy Cavalry from the forest on defense to help fend off invading troops.

Updates

• Oil Boom Balance Update - July 17, 2015

Cavalry damage reduced to 80/90/110/130/140 (were 128/144/176/208/224). Unique and Mercenary Cavalry changed to match.

Trivia

• Mounted soldiers, called cavalry, have always been a deciding factor in battle. They can often turn the tide of battle as they are usually the strongest, sturdiest, and most manueverable troops.