Sabellic Noble Cavalry

Summary
Noble Cavalry are the only cavalry available to the Sabellic faction group, being a dependable brigade of medium cavalry, available early in the game.

"Recruited from the noble families that can afford the best horses and equipment. The heavy noble cavalry move slower than light cavalry, but are much better armoured and put enough weight in their charges to break even some spearmen."

- In-game Description

History
While Italian cavalry was originally made up of unarmoured skirmishers, certain Sabellic tribes such as the Campani eventually became notable for being able to field high-quality heavy cavalry with good armour.

In-game the Sabellic factions are only given armoured melee cavalry and not any lighter skirmishing cavalry, presumably to avoid giving more than one cavalry brigade to a faction group that is not meant to have a particularly versatile cavalry arm.

Tactics
Sabellic Noble Cavalry are a fairly mediocre melee cavalry brigade in the early-game, with comparable (but more defensively-oriented) stats to Etruscan Light Cavalry but with a slightly higher gold cost and smaller brigade size making them arguably less cost-effective. Latin Equites are nearly identical, but have a notably stronger charge attack. Only Gallic Light Cavalry are clearly weaker than Sabellic Noble Cavalry as far as individual soldiers are concerned, but have twice the amount of soldiers in the brigade at a lower cost.

In the late-game, Sabellic Noble Cavalry are entirely outclassed by Gallic Noble Cavalry and Etruscan Heavy Cavalry.

Despite not being very remarkable compared to other melee cavalry, Sabellic Noble Cavalry are still a dependable enough cavalry with solid defenses, and a necessary part of Sabellic army compositions until better cavalry can be recruited from the conquered cities of other faction groups.