I have no voice in this, not since I left the Irish team, but fuck it.
There is a reason why lancers were not allowed, you can't do shit against them. UK, Fra and Ger loosing to mostly fucking no-names. The people that play every god damn day on CavGF, the best of the best, getting fucked by some monkeys with sticks. Atleast let us pick up the lances to fix the unbalanced range, but no. Spain won by choosing a OP troop class for groupmatches. Allowing Lancers was the biggest mistake in the history of the CNC. Fuck Irland and Fuck this god damn rulesetting. Fuck this shit. I'm out. The last CNC, the worst CNC. Erik you fucked up. I'm so god damn salty.
This isn't a surprising attitude. Lancers get hated on every day because some people don't know how to deal with them - it's no wonder there are no lancer regiments or groups as Erik said, because anyone who plays long enough as a lancer knows they're going to get insulted and shit on by every salty hussar out there. It's funny you mention the best of the best on CavGF shockingly losing to lancers when you know that there are a few regular lancers who play there and who usually do quite well - in all humility I include myself in that number. You can't with a straight face tell me that most hussars have no experience of lancers, don't see the regulars (like myself, Diarmuid, Naoscaire, Michi/Ironfist, etc.) doing somewhat well for ourselves in the game.
I have always said it and I always will - the best hussars will always destroy the best lancers. This has always been the case for me and all of the other regular lancers I know. When people like MrAnnoying, Caucasian, Odden and so many others I couldn't possibly name come on I know I'm in for an extremely tough fight, and more likely than not I'm going to lose. I don't rage when this happens, because as I have always believed, playing against those who are better than you is the best way to get... well, better. I've seen it happen to my opponents - people who used to have trouble against me now know how to very effectively deal with me. I'm finding my lance is getting successfully blocked more and more as time goes by, especially in the last year.
Are lancers OP? We know what the general consensus is, so it's a moot question really, but fuck it, I'll address it. I've always seen it as each class having it's own advantages and disadvantages. I'm sure it's as annoying to a hussar to play against me as it is annoying for me to play against a heavy, or indeed a hussar who uses his speed to stay away from my significant reach. The lance is a powerful weapon with a hell of a thrust, but it's also slower to move and you have no ability to defend yourself other than to stay on the attack. You cannot block. If your back is exposed, you'd better hope your slower turn and slow thrust behind you will sort out the enemy for you. A good strategy for a hussar or group of hussars especially against a lancer or lancers is to stop them. A stopped lancer is a dead lancer, 90% of the time. The hussar's sabre is faster than our lance and they are able to attack from many more angles. They, of course, can block with it. Other than the couch attack, the sabre can quite effectively block the lance.
Couching. Couching is the big issue when it comes to lancers. I don't do it myself (which you'd think would send less hate my way, but no) but as it's an integral part of the class I am against removing it, too. A compromise I would be happy with (but which other lancers wouldn't be) is to remove the couch but give the lancer's horse the same speed as a hussar's, but sadly that doesn't seem to be in the cards from FSE. Of course couching is an unblockable attack but again, hussars can just outrun it. Even dismounted and on the ground, I see people avoiding couches quite easily. Perhaps I should not be talking about this, as the only lancer I know in all these years to not use the couch. When it comes to the couch, we know there was a vote passed that forbade couching, to make things "fairer" from the hussar and heavy's perspectives.
I said it here before - either lancers are allowed to play as they, or they should not be allowed at all. Not being allowed to play would certainly please many (and annoy the few lancers in the community) but at least you wouldn't have stupid, shit statements like the above about monkeys with sticks (classy statement, Fidje. I know you're angry as you said, but I would usually expect much better of you - not that this means anything to you). I'm sad to see that people feel the need to stoop to insults, but then that's just what lancers deal with the vast majority of their time in the game.
It's incorrect to say that people don't deal with lancers in the game or even just in tournaments - CavGF's own tournament may be small but you know there is a lancer team in there. And there are a few of us scattered here and there playing in this server or that server. I think it would be better and more correct to say that many people don't know how to deal with lancers, which is the truth as I see it, coming from my daily experiences in the game. It's unfortunate that Erik has had to deal with so much drama over this...
...but then as we all know drama is what the M&B community loves best.
Congratulations to Spain (wish I could have faced you guys on the Irish team!) and to Germany as well for getting to the final.
