Quote Originally Posted by Husar
What I learned reading these forums is that it was NOT the missing stirrups that made cavalry-charges in these times weaker than those of medieval knights/cavalry. It was more the missing saddle that made the charges weaker, but generally cavalry of this time-period was not trained for charges and used mainly for flanking or following routing enemies. Except for cataphracts and some other shock cavalry maybe.
Just what I remember having read here, have´t played RTR yet.

Roman calvary had saddles