Guy takes sword about 30-40 in length and jumps infront of a war horse and swipes.

the blade hardly makes any real effect on the horse and it stamps on the guys head untill he stops moving.


The guys pal seeing an elephant does the same, the sword merely stops dead against the several inch thick hide of the beast and it stomps on him till he stops moving.



This is not hollywood where good old willy wallace takes down a 100 men on horse and shoots bolts of lightning out his arse at the elephants.

Even if the guy somehoe hacked the leg of a horse it would still be moving quick and would still crush him, even if he jumped out the way like some guy from the matrix the horsemans 200 companions would have something to say about said limbless horse.


if your alone and a horse/elephant is charging you the ONLY way to survive is to have a bloody great big Gun.

even pikes were a poor match for elephants who were most oftenly killed by extensive laserations and arrow wounds.