M2TW Charges

**Lord Cazaric** · 03-02-2007, 00:50

Caerfanan, you're absolutely right! I mean, there's no point trying to run on water (although some claim there was this one guy...I won't go there) as you'll just sink and drown and, rather than being known as 'that clinically insane fellow', but instead as 'that poor bugger on the bottom of the sea'. Swimming in armour just isn't great fun.

And as for attempting to charge on air, well, do I need to say anything? Xehh, don't try it!

Sapi, I'm afraid you're wrong...there is no need for commanders, swords, lances or blacksmiths. All you need for a charge is a lot of raging lunatics running at another person with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm. That doesn't necessarily mean they intend to cut up their foes into tiny pieces and feed them to the dogs back home. No, they can just maim and murder them without weapons, as long as beforehand they run like hell at their intended victims.

Thanks for listening.

**Xehh II** · 03-02-2007, 03:28

I will agree with you there cazaric but at the start I was talking about cavalry charges.

**Caerfanan** · 03-02-2007, 10:52

Originally Posted by Xehh II

I will agree with you there cazaric but at the start I was talking about cavalry charges.

So the horses are needed. Not the swords, blacksmiths, etc...

(and now I'm just imagining the guy throwing themselves on their enemies to kill them only with their momentum, argh.)

**Xehh II** · 03-02-2007, 11:11

You can run people over with horses.

**Caerfanan** · 03-02-2007, 11:25

Originally Posted by Xehh II

You can run people over with horses.

Or crush them by throwing the horses at them. But that would be a ranged unit then, so off topic...

(Argh, Lord Cazaric has taken control, please help me!!!!

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Well, more seriously, I think that cavalry charges were devastating mainly because of the momentum of the horses. If I'm correct, by the end of the 14th century, the knights' armours were having something to put the end of your lance on in order to be capable of relaying all the force to the foe without needing that strong an arm. Heavy weight + tip of a lance directed to your chest => man don't you stay here!!!!

**Lord Cazaric** · 03-03-2007, 05:54

[QUOTE=Caerfanan]Or crush them by throwing the horses at them. But that would be a ranged unit then, so off topic...

Brilliant! A unit of either Supermen or extreme weight-lifters! That'd be a sight...100 hobilars with bulging muscles charge within 10 metres of a hostile unit of chivalric men-at-arms, suddenly dismount, pick their steeds up onto their shoulders and hurl them into the enemy soldiers, knocking them all down.

**Caerfanan** · 03-05-2007, 14:24

Originally Posted by Lord Cazaric

Brilliant! A unit of either Supermen or extreme weight-lifters! That'd be a sight...100 hobilars with bulging muscles charge within 10 metres of a hostile unit of chivalric men-at-arms, suddenly dismount, pick their steeds up onto their shoulders and hurl them into the enemy soldiers, knocking them all down.

I wonder if the horses will be armour piercing (or armour crushing to be more precise...)

Argh.

**Dark Water** · 03-29-2007, 12:59

I see there's a lot of deep, thought provoking well planned strategies going on here....it'd look so cool and how could you do anything other than crush your enemies (literally) and wipe them off the battle-field........although that would be the stable boys job