Quote Originally Posted by Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom
I see what your saying but the same applys to a horseman, think about it all you have to do is give one good slash to the horses leg and it will go down.
Except:
1. Singular horsemen are much more manouverable than a chariot. Having to try and co-ordinate two animals would do that.
2. Since there's two horses, you just need to take one down to make the whole thing ineffective. You could therefore assume that a chariot would be roughly twice as vulnerable as an ordinary cavalrymen.

Taking both of these points into account makes chariots seem very fragile, to me. I can see chariots being capable of taking down most enemy cavalry (horses being less agile than a human, thus making it harder to avoid the blades) and being good at disrupting a formation, but beyond that, I wouldn't expect them to inflict massive casualties.

IMHO, the proper way to use a unit of chariots would require careful timing, using them in tandem with other units. Chariots can charge into an enemy formation, followed by cavalry or infantry moments later. This may even work to a small extent against phalanxes; you may lose a fair few chariots, but they will open up gaps through which your troops/cavalry can engage the men themselves, rather than the end of dozens of spears.

Just my 2c.