Heavy cavalry

The heavy cavalry is a type of unit in warbanner

the main adventage of this units is the speed, they can get fastly to anywhere on the battlefield, and despite being low in number, they are very strong in a melee combat, this units health and damage very often go higher than 100 in both of those aspects, they are especially useful charging at enemy troops that are specialized in ranged combat, like heavy riflemen, light infantry and of course, cannons, and used in big numbers they can even mow down enemy line infantry units (but will suffer heavy losses), they are very good at coming fastly to the battlefield and destroying enemy fortifications to get extra deployment points to your army, and weakening the enemy in the process

Strategy
These units are often used to attack enemy flanks, or waiting for a gap to open between the enemy lines, when after prolonged fighting a gap opens on the enemy lines, multiple cavalry units can enter through that breach, and once inside, break formation, killing light infantry, heavy riflemen, destroying cannons and delaying or destroying reinforciments, similar to the blitzkrieg and Deep battle (being more similar to Deep battle in this case) in some way, but made entirely by cavalry and in the 18th-19th century...

These units could also be used as shock cavalry to attack the enemy line infantry, thing that will cause that one or more enemy infantry regiments (may need more than 1 group) are forced into melee and then they can be destroyed easily by a coordinated line infantry volley or other troops, opening a gap into the enemy defenses and leaving space undefended, this could either be exploited or used to free multiple regiments so they can be used elsewhere, so they can support nearby regiments, if needed, this could also be used to shorten the size of the front line and using the regiments that were holding those enemies back to encircle the remaining enemy force.

Heavy cavalry was a great choice for uniques during the era of AI sieges with battle glory. In the current state of the game they are not a recommended option for most as uniques. The reasons are: 1) PvP mostly requires more strength, 2) the equipment of them is very limited and way OVERPRICED.

Pros

 * 1) very fast compared to infantry (obviously)
 * 2) very high health
 * 3) very high melee damage
 * 4) often impressive defense and/or evasion
 * 5) can force an enemy to switch to bayonets/swords without taking more losses
 * 6) possibly the best unit at exploiting gaps in enemy defense
 * 7) same deployment points than line infantry, but if used correctly it can tactically cause much more damage to the enemy

Cons

 * 1) unimpressive ammount of men per regiment
 * 2) most infantry have wall of bayonets perk and more men per regiment, so they will easely destroy the cavalry regiments