Charge Bonus??

[Olaf The Great]

Well a Heavily set drunken Irishman with heavy scale armour and a giant hammer would kill a whole lot of people in a melee, a man on a horse with a 15 foot lance would impale a man in less then two seconds whilst going at almost 30 miles per hour, cavalry have to use handier weapons in a melee, and this is cumbersome without a saddle or a stirrup, and of course the height thing is a problem.


When did the stirrup get invented, and when was it imported to Europe?