Re: How do you use chariots?
History of early chariots
Before the classical ages we go back to the Neolithic. We survived the ice age (10.000BC) and wandered the world for 2000 years.
Tribles settled in Europe and Asia already. But there is a group in the lower Ural. They have to deal with severe winters. Around 8000 BC the weather went colder with a big dipper. So the pastoral nomads moved from valey to valey, to survive the hard weather.
They moved to the west, and further further west. Walking over the grasslands of Russia. Which stretch from Mongolia to Europe.
In Russia they probably spotted wild horses and saw them in the winter, searching for their own food in the snow. Pastoral animals like sheep do not do this. Just like the North American Indians who saw the horses searching for their own food in the harsh winter. Someone probably thought of taming a horse. And after years or decenia used it for hunting.
There we have the first horse rider. So eventually someone came up with the idea to use the horse for transport. And build a cart, which was pulled by a horse. These inventions all made the human move on long distances easlier.
They are called the Indo-Europeans. The germans used to call them Ariërs in the second world war, by their own propaganda.
The Indo-Europeans came from the Ural and moved towards Ukraïne, Eastern Europe and the Balkan. Other divisions became the Hittites in Anatolia and Armenia. While others went to the south right into Central Asia. They were the forefathers of the Parthians and Persians.
Conquering Central East Asia and the Middle East with their horses and horse archers.
The Hittites and their forefathers were the first to bring chariots to the eastern world around 5000-4000 BC.
Later on the Egyptians and Eastern people took the chariots in. Same for the Romans.
And the Persian families were of later time and went horseback again.
In Europe the big family of Celtic, Germanic, Baltic, Italian, Slavic and Daco-Thracian families were all one. They led their own families into eastern europe. First on the grasslands of Romania and Bulgaria, they made the local people their slaves and became their nobility.
Just like the Hittites and Daco-Thracian families went on to Greece and became the local nobility. The same thing happened all over Europe.
The Indo-European families became one with the excisting population and mostly became the nobility. Because of their superiority by chariots.
The only warfare men knew by that time was clubs, axes and skirmishers.
So the chariot skirmishers were as devastating as a tank is now.
Later on they invented the bow and as seen with the Hittites was even more devastating. And eventually people would go horseback.
The Iceni are the only one left with chariots as a European faction in Rome 2. But in reality they were not. Most of central Europe probably still used chariots, like the light versions with one man on top of it. They were like early cavalry fighting against men without armor.
This is why i love the Boii chariot modpack, it's devastating! haha, they conquer central europe with ease.
Another great example of chariot use is classical China. The Spring and Autumn Period, is when they used chariots to crash through infantry formations.
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Originally Posted by Kamakazi
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