Adding Frighten_mounted to Sarissa units

[ziegenpeter]

Ok, we need sources and maybe somehow modern experiments about whether horses charge into a tight formation or not, because some of us say they do, some say they don't.
I'm pretty shure, that I heard from different historians that they don't and will aks them for sources asap.

[Macilrille]

Ok, we need sources and maybe somehow modern experiments about whether horses charge into a tight formation or not, because some of us say they do, some say they don't.
I'm pretty shure, that I heard from different historians that they don't and will aks them for sources asap.

The horses I worked with at the riding centre would not.

However, they can be trained to do so. Riot Police as well as some re-enactors' horses do so. At Hastings a few of the best riders with the most well-trained horses will ride up to the enemy formation and slowly use the body mass of the horse to push through. I believe that is what Riot Police do as well. That is not charging though...

However, that is not the point of the OP. His point was whether sarissae units should scare horses and I maintain a resounding no!! for the reasons I have stated above, but that no one seems to have read.

Instead the discussion has deviated into whether horses can be trained to charge solid masses of men. They can, historical evidence tells is so. But they will by nature not do so, they have to be trained intensely.