Good day fellow Eb-fans!
Eastern antiquity is not my bread and butter but I consider it very interesting. Today I got two more parctical questions.
1. How did horse archers manage to ride into battle with a bow and a lance? Did they leave the lance first behind (with a squire? what if you weren't noble? just rammed into the ground?) shooting arrows and returned when they needed the lance? I can't imagine them shooting while having this havy, long kontos somewhere attached to their horse.
2. Why did the kontos disappear? Although never tested, I'd say that a charge with that is much fiercer than with a single hand wielded lance. Ok having a shield is somehow cool, but the macedons figured out a way to combine both

Thanks