Regimental Lancer

==In game==
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Industrial Era Lancer, recruited chiefly by Germany, Austria, UK and Italy. Can deal splash damage to nearby units in melee, as well as bonus damage versus other melee cavalry units.	
Industrial Era Lancer, recruited chiefly by Germany, Austria, UK and Italy. Can deal splash damage to nearby units in melee, as well as bonus damage versus other melee cavalry units.	
Industrial Era Lancer, recruited chiefly by Germany, Austria, UK and Italy. Can deal splash damage to nearby units in melee, as well as bonus damage versus other melee cavalry units.	
Industrial Era Lancer, recruited chiefly by Germany, Austria, UK and Italy. Can deal splash damage to nearby units in melee, as well as bonus damage versus other melee cavalry units.	
Industrial Era Lancer, recruited chiefly by Germany, Austria, UK and Italy. Can deal splash damage to nearby units in melee, as well as bonus damage versus other melee cavalry units.	
Industrial Era Lancer, recruited chiefly by Germany, Austria, UK and Italy. Can deal splash damage to nearby units in melee, as well as bonus damage versus other melee cavalry units.	
Industrial Era Lancer, recruited chiefly by Germany, Austria, UK and Italy. Can deal splash damage to nearby units in melee, as well as bonus damage versus other melee cavalry units.	
Industrial Era Lancer, recruited chiefly by Germany, Austria, UK and Italy. Can deal splash damage to nearby units in melee, as well as bonus damage versus other melee cavalry units.
Prereq: 	Build time 	HP 	LOS 	Attack 	Attack speed 	Movementspeed 	 	
* [2]
* 	7.9s(187t) 	166 	9 	32 	1.3s(30t) 	43 	 	
Cost 	Cost 	Cost 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
Base 	Ramp 	Pop 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
:: 70;: 60 	
:: 1;: 1 	1 	 	5 	Melee 	
*+1 splash radius.
*Attack bonus versus melee cavalry.
*Defensive bonus versus ranged cavalry.
*Attack penalty versus heavy infantry, elite infantry.	 	
=== Overall strategy===
The penultimate upgrade of Hussars for some factions. Most notably used by a vast number of factions including Germany, USA, ad the Dutch.
As with most light melee cavalry, use these units to roam far and wide to reconnoitre the land to aid your armies, so that you can effectively coordinate your urban planning and tactics with finesse. They are somewhat outmatched by units armed with rifled weapons, so use them to instead ambush enemy artillery and machine guns which have yet to deploy.
====Notes====
*Lancers have more HP, speed compared to cuirassiers; this makes them very effective cavalry units, but they take a long time to train. They re nevertheless ideal for punishing antiquated cavalry nations such as China or Persia, but don't fare very well against massed infantry.
Lancers are dressed in German fashion. 
* Western Lancers - wear a czapska (sigh) but evolves into Age of Darkness Uhlan lancer for Germans in [5].
*Ottoman unit - based off old Bekci Lancer - has 2 apearances: one that uses vanilla LatAm carabineer skin in [4], and another that uses the German Uhlan skin in [5].
==History==
Although the military culture that had created the lance-riding knight of the Middle Ages had mostly petered out by the onset of the 17th century, the weapons and accoutrement of such warriors had not completely died out. In many parts of Europe, lance-riding cavalry continued to form the shock cavalry component of many armies and for good reason too: the shock and morale effect of the lance when used mounted in cavalry warfare, combined with its reach, meant that it was a very effective melee weapon against most targets, whether on two feet or four. 
Lancers, however, were not cheap. Mastery with lance required training and strong hands. A British training manual produced some years after Waterloo stated that he had to master 55 different exercises with his lance — 22 against cavalry, 18 against infantry, with 15 general ones thrown in for good measure. Thus, in melee combat, a lancer in the saddle could be a formidable opponent, but was a unit that was very costly to maintain and time-intensive to recruit, without consideration of the mount (or in the Early Modern Period of Europe, the armour required).
Nevertheless, lancers were often well their worth when used especially to charge weak targets or to harass and pursue a retreating enemy. This was especially true of medium or light strength units such as Polish hussars or the uhlans who eventually replaced them. Napoleon was impressed with the Polish lancers and had nine regiments of lancers in his army. A British veteran of the Napleonic Wars, Charles Wyndham of the Scots Grays saw the lancers pursuing British dragoons who had lost their mounts and were trying to save themselves on foot. He noted the ruthlessness of the lancers' pursuit and watched them cut their victims down.
Theafter, the Poles fueled a "lance craze" that swept the armies of Europe and inspired tens of regiments to clad in outfits modeled on the uniform of the uhlans. The Russians increased number of uhlan regiments from 5-6 to 12 and armed their 12 hussar regiments with lances. The Austrians increased from 3 to 4 regiments and the Prussians from 1 to 8 regiments. All lancers were uniformed in Polish style and design. Even the British formed their own lancers styled on the Poles. Uhlans were also formed in Italy and Spain, and the lance would see extensive use well until the Second World War, although by then armies of the period had begun to retrain lancers to fight as dismounted infantry like dragoons.
===References===
*Chinese Napoleon Site, Cavalry Tactics and Combat during the Napoleonic Wars.
Category:Melee units