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  1. 02-09-2008, 23:15 #1
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    Default Re: Indo Sakas

    Two-humped camels too slow? I rode some and they are quite energetic. They stink, are bad tempered and run a smooth pace (lifting both legs on the same side at once) making them a stable mount ideal for firing arrows, really scare horses, don't know fatigue and by spring, when the winter wool goes down, have an incredible rasta-punk look.

    I fell in love with a camel on spring 2002 in Mongolia. I felt we could have traveled to the end of the world together.

    They were not used at war. I can't figure out why.
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    ...tried racing a horse with them or something, too ?

    Anyway, given that one of the important things which actually makes hores good war-mounts is that they're specifically hierarchical herd beast...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
    which actually makes hores good war-mounts
    I sure hope you forgot a 's' here...
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    Mesa no speak the English so well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Conradus
    I sure hope you forgot a 's' here...
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    I reckon what he missed was another letter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
    ... which actually makes
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    good war-mounts is that they're specifically hierarchical herd beast...
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    I reckon what he missed was another letter.
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    Although it is a safe bet that quite a few soldiers through history have enjoyed "mounting" some "hores" during times of war...
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    Does anybody know when camels or dromedars were first used in war? I find it astonishing that they shall not have been used - normally humans use every possible device to arm themselves if it helps beating the crap out of your nefarious neighbour...
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    They're good for getting around the desert, anyway. And bow-toting Bedouin raiders on camelback apparently pestered both the Assyrians and ancient Judeans.

    But (mostly strategic) mobility, and being odious to horses unused to them (using pack camels as a cavalry-distruption screen seems to have been a fairly popular underhanded trick), is pretty much what the animals' military contribution seems to have been.
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    But sometimes this must have changed. At least the arabs at the time of mohammed used them in battle AFAIK. Were they the first to do so systematically / in cohesive units?
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