Combat in the Med II engine

[Ichon]

The armour of the rider would be of less quality, but in the medieval time the horses wore nearly no armour. So I can't unterstand the fact that the really heavy cavalry in EB should take many casualities when disenganging or charging from the front compared to medieval cavalry. I would say the big difference is not the weaker cavalry but the much stronger infantry of the EB timeframe.
The charge should be weaker but the heavy cavalry with armoured horses should be hard to kill.

Not sure what you are getting your information from but depending on the culture some horses wore quite much armor in medieval times. Even in EB era Samartions, Scythians, and maybe even Thracians and the Companions put some armor on their horses. Usually just heavy felt with some head and chest plates but still less compared to barding on medieval heavy cavalry. Of course some medieval cavalry horses had no armor but the heavy shock cavalry we are talking about usually had something.

[Rahl]

Not sure what you are getting your information from but depending on the culture some horses wore quite much armor in medieval times.

From my best friend, I would say she's an expert on medieval europe. I meant the european knights when I said they had mostly unarmoured horses over most of the medieval times. Middle eastern and nomad heavy cavalry probably had armoured horses.
Sorry that I was so unprecisly.