Elite Scara Guard

Overall strategy
By far the most powerful of Frankish units, the Elite Scara Guard can now be best described as genuine shock cavalry. They are no longer armed with axes as Scara Cavalry units are, but are instead outfitted with lances, as well as a good deal of heavy scale armour.

Like many Turkic cavalryman which the Franks have had experience in fighting further east, the Elite Scara Guard does not rely on the use of heavy armour (as Sogdian, Roman or Chinese armies do), but instead uses superior horsemanship, better mounts and training (they are after all a guard unit for kings!) to outwit and eventually out-hit opponents. For this reason, the Elite Scara Guard has a strong propensity for being superior to most light cavalry units in hand to hand combat, but must learn to close in for the kill. Against heavier shock units, such as Cataphracts, they are often deficient in armour and for this reason must learn to avoid superior foes, sheltering behind walls of spears should trouble come knocking with a mailed fist.