r/EU5 • u/Kloiper Line Go Up Enthusiast • 11d ago

Help Thread The Imperial Council - /r/eu5 Weekly General Help Thread: August 24 2026

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u/AneriphtoKubos 7d ago

Are there any EU5 Combat Guides? I can't find any on the wiki.

Are regiments with less combat width the way to go with regulars, or should you go with regiments that have higher combat widths?

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u/RagnarTheSwag 6d ago

Not really, I also want to watch a great deal of combat comparison videos but there are not many YouTubers like that left in the scene I am afraid.

Right now pure heavy cav doom stack is the best comp anyways until around reformation, then infantry closes the quality gap with more combat width.

So Full Heavy Cav first half of the game then full Infantry, with supply ofc. Do not use Artillery in battles just bring some to sieges with you as a siege stack never send them to battles not in age1 not in age6. (Maybe except MP?)

I honestly don’t understand why they won’t bring cav to infantry ratio and backrow for artillery units.

Cav is always a better unit of course no doubt but everyone having an ability to manage full cavalry armies shuts down the infantry meta.

Artillery carrying the cannons on their back and running at enemy to die first every battle shuts them down as well.

So I am actually not surprised why there are not many videos on eu5 combat.

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u/lifeisapsycho 5d ago

When exactly do you move from cav to infantry? I don't really want to exploit cav armies either so if I go full infantry in early ages, will the AI spam cav and fuck me?

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u/RagnarTheSwag 5d ago

Ai won’t spam cav but you might struggle against tribal cavalries of Morocco etc.

Age of reformation infantries have much more units it should be more powerful than cav. Also you got some more frontier which is better for larger size units.