Quote Originally Posted by ONEs View Post
the archers start shooting when cav comes into their range. not any moment earlier, nomatter when the fight started (if the balista started the fight 5 hours ago they can't do anything). So my question is anyone actually knows how cav attacks against ranged troops? I sent only archers rainbowed on cav valey and lost only archers and pikes, the rest of the rainbow was intact. So cav only attacked archers. the pikes died becouse they attacked the cav. This is a supposition of couse, but it might be usefull to find an actual answer to this.
If anyone can offer one I would be gratefull.
I haven't read what was said after this, so apologies if it was already answered.

As I said in the post immediately prior to yours, I believe the the ballista opens up the range so that the ponies run forward, putting them in range of the archers but not close enough to hit the archers themselves. If the ballista is gone I speculate that the cavs can run all the way to the archers during the first round.