Their cavalry against Greeks who relied on armoured infantry.

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However they lost the battles because:

a. Marathon – they were loading their cavalry on ships to attack Athens by sea, and the Athenians ran in and defeated the inferior Persian infantry.

b. Thermopylae: The Greeks had a blocking force holding the pass and the Persian cavalry could not be deployed against them. The Persians broke the blockade by vastly superior force.

c. Plataia: The Greeks kept their force in the rough ground where the Persian cavalry could not operate, and the inferior Persian infantry was once more defeated by the Greek armoured infantry.

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