Quote Originally Posted by seienchin View Post
It makes no sense. The romans always adapted to their enemys and people are trying to say the romans never had the idea to stop lancers with phalanx like long spears? I doubt it.
Roman legionaries had quite a good record holding off or aggressively tackling cavalry. What is more important than big sticks is discipline, and that's what they had. The Romans had disciplined, heavily armoured infantry that could stop a cavalry charge - of course with losses but still efficiently - why completely change that if the statisics actually spoke in their favour?


So for me the possibility is that cataphract didnt charge like medieval knights.
That's a very bold statement...