Well, including phracts doesn't hurt the jaq itself, the cav still skip layering in round 1.
What the dirty jaq would hope to accomplish, is while cav are quick enough to move past the layers, the phracts are not.
By the second round, cav would switch back to their normal targeting method, and stop targeting the archers (usually). The phracts hopefully have already destroyed one layer type, while the defending archers are attacking your ranged layers.
Having both horse types means depending on the specific scenario, your cav can get back to targeting the archers before the archers kill your ranged layering/scouts.
It's 5 am and I have not slept, none of that probably makes any sense, but that is the general idea behind dirty jaqs, killing the layers after round 1 quick enough to return to attacking the archers.
Jaqs only work (assuming walls are 10) when the only defensive range is archers, so your ranged layering actually buys you a few extra rounds for this to work, where usually with 3 range types on defense, your full ranged layering will only get you 2 extra rounds max. Since there is only one range type in most jaq situations, with a dirty jaq, phracts will get another round after cav are targeted and killed, as age1 has no damage overflow.
I'll probably come back and read/edit this to make sense after I actually sleep, so be gentle.



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