Weak cavalry?

**Redtemplar** · 10-26-2006, 20:28

Yes LadyAnn it depends on many parameters. But I really doubt in so called "solid wall from humans" - i never have seen that surviving a battle in middle Europe. Polish cavalry had an experience in destroying even such formations (only carts? and special walls from wood - shield haha - for infantry could protect them - but still this wasn't good protection :)). They simply made charges one after another (and used some interesting tactics -

). The infantry was weakened enough to make final charge and game over :).

I think it is experience different in every nations (

) but I am writing this topics from my point of view (and I am not saying cavalry can destroy everything, but in good hands can destroy almost everything :).

Peace and love - remember war is cruel - let it be only in games.

**Louis de la Ferte Ste Colombe** · 10-26-2006, 21:12

IF cavalry can destroy almost anything, do you think this game is going to be of any interest at all?

Just buy cavalry and win... That's going to be very poor gameplay...

Louis,

**Redtemplar** · 10-26-2006, 21:24

Not completely (I was writing about history arguments not gameplay).

Well than you just buy cavalry to attack cavalry, there are also pikes, castles etc.. I think it has little to do with gameplay.

**Orda Khan** · 10-27-2006, 17:06

Cav versus cav, that's fair enough but strange how Julius Caesar deployed infantry amongst his cav to defeat the cav of Pompei......

......Orda

**Furious Mental** · 10-27-2006, 17:19

"i never have seen that surviving a battle in middle Europe."

I actually just gave you an example of frontal cavalry charges being explicitly stated to be useless against a solid wall of humans by a contemporary source.

**Da_Funkey_Gibbon** · 10-28-2006, 23:19

Yeah, that was interesting, but it raises the question of how far tactics changed from the mid 11th century to the mid 15th century in terms of calvary tactics in north west Europe. Specifically the influence of the classical knight in full plate armor, which I believe deleloped throughout the middle ages.

**Orb** · 10-29-2006, 00:53

I think cavalry should roll over most infantry on a bowling green, but when it comes to the misfortunes of grapevines, hedges, woods etc. they should have more trouble.