Frontier Lancer

==In game==
===Vital stats===
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*Unique American medium cavalry unit. Upgrade of Guard Cavalry. Medium cavalry unit that attempts to combine mobility and speed with better attack and armour.	
*Unique American medium cavalry unit. Upgrade of Guard Cavalry. Medium cavalry unit that attempts to combine mobility and speed with better attack and armour.	
*Unique American medium cavalry unit. Upgrade of Guard Cavalry. Medium cavalry unit that attempts to combine mobility and speed with better attack and armour.	
*Unique American medium cavalry unit. Upgrade of Guard Cavalry. Medium cavalry unit that attempts to combine mobility and speed with better attack and armour.	
*Unique American medium cavalry unit. Upgrade of Guard Cavalry. Medium cavalry unit that attempts to combine mobility and speed with better attack and armour.	
*Unique American medium cavalry unit. Upgrade of Guard Cavalry. Medium cavalry unit that attempts to combine mobility and speed with better attack and armour.	
*Unique American medium cavalry unit. Upgrade of Guard Cavalry. Medium cavalry unit that attempts to combine mobility and speed with better attack and armour.	
*Unique American medium cavalry unit. Upgrade of Guard Cavalry. Medium cavalry unit that attempts to combine mobility and speed with better attack and armour.
Prereq: 	Build time 	HP 	LOS 	Attack 	Attack speed 	Movementspeed 	 	
* 	12.6s(190t) 	131 	8 	17 	2.3s(35t) 	38 	 	
Cost 	Cost 	Cost 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
Base 	Ramp 	Pop 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
: 50;: 50 	: 1;: 1 	1 	 	5 	Melee 	? 	 	
 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
===Overall strategy===
Frontier Lancers, while in effect militia, are by no means to be underestimated. These hard-riding Texan horsemen may not constitute true military men, but they are by no means inexperience nor deadly, on the other hand, they are highly effective militia cavalry, being capable of providing the Texans an early-game lancer unit that while is not as strong as those of European nations , is still sufficiently powerful to function as especially as a counter to ranged cavalry. Thus a Texan nation equipped with Frontier Lancers can be assured of being able to meet a foe who foolishly tries to rely on ranged cavalry units, be they Steppe Nomads, Eagle Feather Horsemen, or European Dragoons.
The remedy to Frontier Lancers, however, is fairly simple — because they are light cavalry and also aren't as strong as normal Lancers, they can easily be broken using any medium or heavy cavalry. Equally, a dedicated anti-cavalry unit such as Flying Artillery or Guard Grenadiers can easily turn back a horde of cavalry, and Frontier Lancers are not less vulnerable.
Notes
*For the East Asian factions, Guard Cavalry appear wearing leather armour and a plumed kettle helm and are lance cavalry.
*This is the only unit available to Korea bar the appearance of Merchant Cavalry.
*Japan can recruit only Kibatai .
==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 hand. 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. The speed and deadly skills of Spanish lance cavalry in the New World provided them with a devastating edge against their American foes — it was the prowess of the Castillian cavalry who travelled with Cortés to Mexico which helped him survive La Noche Triste, allowing his forces to safely retreat after the battle of Otumba in 1520CE back to friendly Tlaxcalan territory to regroup, resupply and eventually return back to Tenochtitlan a year later, ending the Aztec empire once and for all.
===References===
*Chinese Napoleon Site, Cavalry Tactics and Combat during the Napoleonic Wars.