Hastings 2006 Cavalry Attacking II

[lucinqua]

My admiration to riders controling their horses skillfully and to all the beasts being calm under so much stress. I can only imagine how much skill it requires to control a horse among people waving with weapons infront of his eyes and not get me or someone else hurt.

[idlenessss]

well cavalry didnt not always charge into a formation....only very brave people would do that since of course, it could easy result in injuring the rider as well as the infantry...more often cavalry were effective because they 1) gave the soldier greater mobility, allowing them to enter and retreat quickly in more locations and 2) the riders had an obvious height advanrtage so that gravity could assist them in the force of their blows while the enemy had to work against gravity....

[000000AEA000000]

@idlenessss well yes... I must give your word credit for it speaks truth here. I am a reenactor of a frankish miles and a rider. While this is already leaning towardst later mounted combat, charging a well formation, especially in the earlier migration periodes was meaning certain death for the first rank of the riders aswell as the infantry. The Franks mostly used mounted forces as part of counter-guerilla tactics and in unorderly skirmishes until the infantry bulks became less disciplined.

[Gabul4]

well yes you cant possible have 100 horses actually galloping at full speed into a crowd of people. imagine the damage that would cause. thats why the cavalry was so effective in the first place, not to mention the men mounted on the horses swinging their swords and lances around...

[space197]

lol did u see those 2 guys at beging picking up all those arrows alone lol

[ewen6666]

cavalry are hard to re-enact i guyess, due to the fact that the majority of the effect is in the shock of the horses physocally hitting the infantry, something impossible to fake?

[vdub2002]

the main thing calvary has for them in the real world battles were mass and momentum. a 200 man cavalry unit crashing into a flank would crush that flank just by their mass and momentum, not to mention the slashes and lances of the men mounted on top :)

[000majorwinters000]

How are the cavalry used without actually injuring someone?

[DivineFayezOla]

Awesome, keep it up.